While the world was waiting for a democratic and just Syria after Bashar al-Assad, what is happening today in Aleppo is a bitter test of that hope. Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh, two Kurdish neighborhoods of Aleppo, have been under attack for four days by armed forces affiliated with the Turkish […]
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Nationwide protests in Iran have continued into their tenth day. What initially began as trade-based strikes and limited gatherings has now turned into a broad wave of diverse forms of protest. This protest movement has not retreated in the face of pressure from repressive forces; rather, it has demonstrated new […]
In the early hours of Saturday, January 3, 2026, a new chapter was written in the history of U.S. interventions in Latin America. Reports spoke of widespread bombardment of targets in Caracas and several other Venezuelan cities. Donald Trump announced that Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores had been […]
Popular protests in Iran have entered their fifth day. What began as economically motivated protests (inflation, the collapse of the rial, poverty, and high prices) led by bazaar merchants has quickly turned into a broad political movement with fundamental demands. With students, citizens, and teachers joining the protests, slogans aligned […]
The protests that began in Tehran’s bazaar and continued for a fourth day on Tuesday, January 9, have entered a new phase by spreading to cities such as Isfahan, Kermanshah, Shiraz, Yazd, and Mashhad. The strike at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar for the third consecutive day, the closure of shopping centers […]
December 18, has been designated by the United Nations as International Migrants Day, a day to remember the fate of millions of displaced people and migrants across the world, whose numbers continue to rise year after year. On this day, governments, international institutions, and analysts speak about the causes and […]
Iran is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for workers. According to the latest officially released statistics, 1,900 workers lost their lives last year alone due to work-related accidents, a figure that, even by the Islamic Republic’s distorted and censored statistical standards, lays bare the scale of […]
Thursday, December 10, is International Human Rights Day. Seventy-seven years ago, on this date, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly as a universal and binding document. Although many states today recognize the Declaration and have even incorporated parts of it into their constitutions, […]
These days mark the anniversary of a series of political assassinations in Iran, known as the “Chain Murders.” On this occasion, in 2008, the Iranian Writers’ Association declared December 4th, the day of the murder of the courageous writer and activist Mohammad Mokhtari as the Day of Struggle Against Censorship […]
Today, Saturday 29 November, is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. UN General Assembly Resolution 181, passed on 29 November 1947, which proposed the partition of Palestine, marked the beginning of war, mass displacement, institutionalized discrimination, and the formation of one of the world’s longest unresolved conflicts […]