‘They told my brother I was dead’: inside Israel’s psychological warfare against Palestinian prisoners

April 17, 2025

Shatha Hanaysha

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention are subjected to conditions of torture, starvation, and torment that are the worst they have been since 1967. My brother has been imprisoned amid these conditions for over a year.

 

Demonstrators carry posters and portraits of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails during a gathering to commemorate Palestinian Prisoners’ Day in the city of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on April 17, 2025. (Photo: Mamoun Wazwaz/APA Images)

Saudi defence minister visits Tehran before Iran-US talks

April 17, 2025

Iran and the US are set to hold a second round of talks in Rome about Tehran’s nuclear programme.

 

 Iran's Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major-General Mohammed Bagheri, right, receiving Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman in Tehran [Iranian Army Office/AFP]

Gordon G. Chang et al: Shut up about Donald J. Trump, North Korea, China and everything else NATO pay you to prattle on about

April 17, 2025

Declan Hayes

Although you may not have read Chang’s latest screed, if you have ever perused the offerings of any airport book store, you will be familiar with this genre that is full of scary and lurid headlines regarding world domination.