Israel has assassinated yesterday in Beirut, Lebanon the deputy chairman of the political bureau of Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri. Samir Findi Abu Amer and Azzam Al-Aqraa Abu Ammar, leaders of Hamas’ armed wing – the Qassam Brigades – were also killed, Hamas said in a message on its Telegram channel. It named four other members of the group who were also ...

The daily newspaper Aydınlık conducted an interview with Dr. Ali Hajj Hassan, the Head of the Youth Sector in Hezbollah’s Educational Unit. Uwidata translated the interview from English into Turkish. ——— – In the name of God, the gracious, the merciful – How do you evaluate the Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood”? We congratulate, first of all, the resistant Palestinian people and ...

The youth of 6 countries in West Asia that resist US imperialism and Israeli Zionism came together for “Independent Palestine” at the conference organized by World Anti-Imperialist Youth Union (WAYU). The “International Youth Conference on Independent Palestine” composed of 11 youth organizations from Palestine, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen met online on 25 July 2021. The youth organizations stated “Against the Imperialist-Zionist Threat, For the Independent State of Palestine, We ...

Israel and the Palestinian Resistance have agreed with Egyptian mediation on an unconditional ceasefire after 11 days of intense attacks on Gaza. The tension that started with the assault of Israeli forces and settlers to Palestinians and Arab Knesset members in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem and escalated with the raid on Masjid al-Aqsa on May 7. ...

Turkey’s Vatan Party has started an Initiative on the New International Order (NINTO) and organized an international symposium. 38 distinguished speakers representing 24 countries from 6 continents parcipated in the symposium, among them various experts of United World International. Participants debated a wide range of issues from the end of the unipolar world to the crisis of neoliberalism, from identity ...

The Lebanese poet Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998) described his beloved country and city, saying: “I am Beirut / The queen of water who lost her rings, bracelets, necklaces in the water / I am the pearl of the Mediterranean sea who has fallen under/ I am the blue fish of the mythology, poisoned with mercury / I am the ship that ...

BY ALİ RIZA TAŞDELEN Our world is experiencing the pain of the transition from a unipolar world to a multipolar world. The confrontation between the Atlantic and Eurasian forces has been heating up in the Eastern Mediterranean for the past year. It is not possible to consider the terrible explosion that took place in Beirut without taking into account the ...

The blast in the Beirut port left at least 200 people dead, 6,000 injured and 300,000 displaced. It came at a time when Lebanon was dealing with a financial crisis along with the coronavirus pandemic. Lebanese President Michel Aoun said that property damage from the explosion could cost more than $15 billion, according to the official Lebanese News Agency. Lebanon’s ...

Interview with President Aoun’s ex-advisor Elie Hatem Elie Hatem is Barrister-at-Law at the Paris Bar Association and at the International Criminal Court of the Hague. He has been the advisor of current President Michel Aoun of Lebanon, during the exile of this latter in France. Dr. Elie Hatem was also the advisor of former Secretary General of the United Nations, ...

Attempts to encircle Turkey from North Africa, the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean are gaining more momentum. It is useful to take a look at the events that have been taking place in Libya, Tunisia, Lebanon, and Egypt, in order to see the full picture. FRENCH INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL IN LIBYA In Libya, where tensions have recently been at a ...