A protest in support of leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan. Photo by Rasmus Canbäck The harrowing images of Ruben Vardanyan, who looks emaciated due to a hunger strike, have sent shockwaves through Armenia. From November 2022 through February 2023, Vardanyan served as Yerevan’s State Minister of Artsakh, a region better known in the West as Nagorno-Karabakh. In September 2023, after a successful Azerbaijani military offensive drove Armenian forces out of the region, Vardan

Israeli finance minister said 'We have to see how we are dividing up the land in percentages' Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said plans to divide up Gaza are on US President Donald Trump's desk (Menahem Kahana/AFP) Israel’s  finance minister said the Gaza Strip  is “a real estate bonanza” and Israel has shared a plan with the  US  on how to divide it up, multiple Israeli news outlets reported on Wednesday. Speaking at a real estate conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, Beza

JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Thursday criticized a symbolic vote in Israel’s parliament the previous day about annexing the occupied West Bank, saying that it amounted to an “insult” and went against the Trump administration policies.

Israeli Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was filmed at an Israeli prison where he called for the execution of Palestinian detainees.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is suggesting he could call on Israel to release imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader, as the United States aims to fill a leadership vacuum in postwar Gaza.

US president renews his threats to Hamas, saying that the Palestinian group could face ‘FAST, FURIOUS, & BRUTAL’ end.

Mervin Yamarte says his tattoos led to him being mistaken in the US for a gang member and deported to El Salvador. (Photo via Gustavo Ocando | BBC) "We lived through hell," says 29-year-old Mervin Yamarte as he steps into his mother's home, wiping away the tears and sweat drenching his face. He is one of four men from the neighbourhood of Los Pescadores in the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela, who were deported from the US to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), a

Mahmoud Abu Hamda/Anadolu, via Getty Images The ground shook as another airstrike slammed down nearby, a thunderclap ripping through the makeshift field clinic. Inside, panic surged. A baby wailed from one corner; a mother screamed for help in another. Amid toppled boxes of therapeutic food, I held a skeletal boy no older than 4 — limbs limp, eyes sunken. Just moments before, I had managed to feed him a spoonful of nutritional, peanut-rich paste. As I was readying another, an

A narrow understanding of the term, as well as Israel’s history as a haven for genocide victims, explains the dissonance 'There is little doubt that Israel’s actions are sufficient to meet the requirements for genocidal conduct.’ Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters Why is it so difficult for some to accept that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza? The case for genocide is compelling , but some governments and members of the public resist acknowledging it. The r

The Silent Cries of Gaza: A Legacy of Innocence Lost and the Urgent Call to Confront Genocide (Photo via LAProgressive) T he bronze sculpture by Marie Uchytilová, Memorial to the Children Victims of the War ,  depicting the 82 children of Lidice murdered at Chełmno in 1942, serves as a haunting reminder of the barbarity that defined the Nazi-led Lidice massacre . In reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis razed the village of Lidice, executed its men, a