80 million tons of Gaza rubble hinder recovery of missing people

Friday, 21 August 2026

The Director General of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, Munir al-Barsh, said on Thursday that nearly 80 million tons of rubble across the Gaza Strip are posing a major obstacle to locating and documenting missing people, as thousands of bodies rem...

Iran and Yemen: From Absorbing Pressure to Imposing Costs

Friday, 21 August 2026

The regional landscape, amid what has become an increasingly aggressive campaign led by the United States and its allies, reveals how maritime geography has emerged as a source of political power and an influential instrument of pressure in shaping...

War on Iran exposes limits of US power and alliances: Axios

Tuesday, 18 August 2026

US President Donald Trump is escalating pressure on Washington’s allies over their refusal to participate in the US war on Iran, with South Korea becoming the latest target of his demands for support, Zachary Basu writes for Ax...

Iran war marks end of US Middle East order: Foreign Affairs

Tuesday, 18 August 2026

A decades-old regional system built around US military supremacy, support for "Israel", and the containment of Iran has reached a breaking point following Washington and Tel Aviv's war on Tehran, political scientist Marc Lynch argued ...