Why to blow up a medical college? One of the aims of this genocide is also the destruction of all school and university infrastructures, obliterating the future of entire generations of Gaza Palestinians, especially in life saving sectors.

This means HTS members command only one third of the SAA's existing divisions. What about appointment patterns at brigade/regiment levels?

NEW: Israeli tanks opened fire on civilians at the village of Kuwaya in the Yarmouk Basin, located in Daraa province, southern Syria. According to initial reports, four people have been killed and several others injured.

Another foreign-policy scheme ends in ignominy for the UAE, much like its efforts to help Khalifa Haftar capture Tripoli and to convince everyone to normalize ties with Bashar al-Assad

The decree (credits to Ayman Al-Das) issued by FM Shaibani establishing the General Secretariat for Political Affairs within the MFA appears to be an attempt to formalise the HTS-affiliated ‘cadres’ and put them under his authority. /1

🔴 ASSEZ DE JOUER AVEC NOS VIES, ASSEZ DE GOUVERNER AVEC LA HAINE ! Nous dénonçons fermement la campagne islamophobe du gouvernement qui cible violemment les femmes musulmanes en France. Notre communiqué ⤵️

I've never understood this argument. The security forces & regime were two sides of the same coin. Assad fell *because* the army dissolved over the course of the offensive. HTS's decision was to not call back any of army or security forces, not to disband an existing entity

Après une série d’attaques sanglantes en Syrie, le chercheur Thomas Pierret décrypte une situation tendue et pleine d’incertitudes ➡️ buff.ly/OuYNFX1

📚 New on the blog! From visions of 'Trump Gaza' to techno-utopianism in Saudi Arabia, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa. Read now 👉 edin.ac/3RDxmVu

تاريخياً، شاب التوتر العلاقة بين منظمات المجتمع المدني والسلطات الحاكمة المتعاقبة، تلك التي لجأت إلى فرض أطر قانونية وإجراءات تنظيمية مقيدة للعمل المدني. وعقب سقوط نظام الأسد، تلوح فرصة لإعادة تصويب العلاقة ليكون أساسها الشراكة والتكامل لا التنافس والعداء. وانطلاقاً من أهمية

📚 On the blog! From visions of 'Trump Gaza' to techno-utopianism in Saudi Arabia, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa. Read now 👉 edin.ac/3RDxmVu

Four Syrians, all of them members of the Druze community, were killed in an Israeli drone strike which targeted a farm in Suweida province newarab.com/news/four-syri…

🚨 It’s official: Ahmad Al-Sharaa will visit France and meet with Emmanuel Macron on May 7. This is a pivotal meeting with potential long-term consequences for Syria’s future. For both France and Syria, the stakes are high. ➝ For Paris, the visit offers Macron a rare

Israel escalates its depraved & monstrous slaughter of the innocents in Gaza with deliberate cruelty & murderous intent. It must be stopped; this horrific carnage is beyond intolerable.

🚨 Last chance to register to join the editors of Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa for the launch of this groundbreaking new volume. 📍 Online 🕔 5pm, Friday 30 May Find out more 👉 edin.ac/4mcxauI Thomas Pierret Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

🇩🇪 Germany, the country that gave the world pogroms, Kristallnacht, industrialized antisemitism, Auschwitz and countless SS in postwar ministries now claims it was “imported” 10 years ago. Imported from where exactly: Nuremberg? Wannsee? Remarkable what historical amnesia can do!

🧵The Great Hunger, 2025. Let no one say they didn't know. #GazaGenocide‌ #GazaStarving #Gaza Keir Starmer David Lammy Donald J. Trump Friedrich Merz Emmanuel Macron Lisa Nandy MP Kaja Kallas Ursula von der Leyen OIC جامعة الدول العربية Int'l Criminal Court CIJ_ICJ Yvette Cooper BBC News (UK)

Sur Mediapart, le Club (accès libre), Muzna Shihabi répond à Jean-Pierre Filiu : "Ne pas effacer l'essentiel : depuis un siècle, l’Europe trace les cartes, arme Israël, fabrique l’exil palestinien et exige des victimes qu’elles se déclarent coupables." #Gaza blogs.mediapart.fr/muzna-shihabi/…

The first review of Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa is in: "This volume offers a rich and fascinating read to anyone interested in the possible futures of this central and quickly changing region. I highly recommend it." doi.org/10.1080/136293…