Gaza Humanitarian Aid Operation “Nearing Collapse,” UN Warns

December 9, 2024

Sharon Zhang

UN groups have warned that food security is “collapsing” across famine-stricken Gaza, with the entire humanitarian aid operation at the brink due to Israel’s severe aid blockade and Israeli-protected gang looting preventing what little aid that enters from reaching starving Palestinians.

  

A wide view captures the destruction of residential buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on December 7, 2024.Saeed Jaras / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images

Washington Celebrates Al-Qaeda’s Victory in Syria

December 9, 2024

Kyle Anzalone

Washington finally completed its dirty war in Syria. What started as a CIA covert operation to smuggle weapons and jihadists from Libya to Syria has resulted in Syria leader Bashar al-Assad being deposed and replaced by Abu Mohammad al-Julani.

The Fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad: What it Means

December 9, 2024

Deepak Tripathi

The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, marking the end of more than 50 years of the Assad dynasty (1971 – 2024), is a dramatic event in the Middle East. It is difficult to make definite short- and long-term predictions in the wake of such a momentous event. But it deserves a brief comment about what may lie ahead.