Iraq launches DNA drive to identify victims from Saddam’s era

2025-07-10T14:09:37+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Al-Sulaymaniyah Iraq has launched a nationwide DNA collection campaign aimed at identifying victims of mass graves linked to the rule of former President Saddam Hussein, whose regime …

The hit that wasn’t: When Saddam Hussein offered to kill Khomeini and the Shah said no

The Arab apocalypse

Historians are generally wary of commemorations – fireworks that dazzle the eye only to fade in the same instant. But they are also aware that ‘round number anniversaries’ can provide a unique opportunity to think about contemporary societies in their …

There Is Still Only One Way Out for Israel and Iran

What was true before is still true now: There is no military solution to this conflict. Only diplomacy and a commitment to peace will work. Ad Policy Israeli paramedics and forces are on the scene where buildings are destroyed as a result of Iran’s missile …

The Iran Ceasefire: A Dicey Intermission

The recent attack by Israel and the US on parts of Iran’s nuclear project has already been dubbed by some commentators as the 12 Day War. However, that cut-off time was chosen by Tehran to back a claim that Iran managed to fight twice as long as Arab …

What would it take to end Iran’s nuclear program? An army

In the weeks since the US attacked the Iranian nuclear program with 30,000-pound “bunker busting” bombs and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles, we’ve heard wide variation in how much damage has been done overall. President Donald Trump’s claim that the …

In Gaza, U.S. Mercenaries Advance Israeli War Aims

The world watched as the beaten and burned bodies of four American contractors from a private military company, then known as Blackwater, swung from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Iraq.  It was March 31, 2004. Iraqi fighters had ambushed the U.S. …

Benjamin Fulford — July 7th, 2025: Desperate cabal planning “Event X Polycrisis”

The Khazarian mafia is in a state of total panic because their old tricks to manipulate people with trauma-based mind control are not working anymore. So now they are planning to up the ante with some sort of massive “polycrisis. ” This is how they will …

Western Soft-Power Agencies Established a Support Front for Armed Insurrection in Syria by Al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels

Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, circa 2014, inside Damascus, Syria. [Source: unrwa.org] [This is the second of a two-part series. Part I can be found here—Editors] From 2011 to 2016, demonstrations in Syria against the Ba’athist government headed by …

Unprecedented Israeli backlash against Netanyahu: Vietnam-style phase in Gaza, deadly trap and endless losses

Unprecedented criticism has surfaced within Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as analysts describe the war in Gaza as Israel’s own “Vietnam phase” — a deadly trap marked by heavy losses and an unending drain on resources — with warnings …