“O Hell, open your gates—Hafez al-Assad is among your beloved.”Zainab Sayed still vividly remembers the phrase her father uttered when commenting on the death of Hafez al-Assad. It was an unbearably hot summer day that those present in the house...
Noon Post
16 March ,2026
The U.S. administration made little effort to disguise the real motive behind its assault on Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro in early January. From the outset, it was abundantly clear that Venezuelan oil was the defining issue of...
“There is no finish line... If someone uses the word ‘Zionist’ as an insult, it will be classified as a crime, and action will be taken against them,” declared Adam Presser, TikTok’s new Head of Operations, inaugurating a new era...
The issue of unofficial prisons in Yemen’s eastern Hadramaut governorate has once again come under the spotlight, following unprecedented official accusations against the United Arab Emirates of operating secret detention centers in the area most notably, suspected sites within the...
What began in Iran as a bazaar merchants’ strike amid the sharp collapse of the national currency quickly ignited broader protests over the country’s worsening economic conditions. These protests erupted just as Iran emerged from a war that, at its...
The clashes between the Syrian Arab Army and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have exposed the fragility of the SDF’s military structure and its organizational weakness despite it being an entity that has existed for nearly a decade, a partner...
“Social media is the weapon of the modern age. The most important purchase happening right now is TikTok. Number one. And I hope it happens, because it could be decisive. The second is X. If we get those two, we’ll...
Egypt bids farewell to 2025 burdened by a deeply painful political, economic, and even humanitarian legacy one shaped by policies and positions that, at many critical junctures, appeared to fall outside the moral framework that once distinguished the Egyptian state...
As 2025 draws to a close, Syria completes its first year outside the rule of the Ba‘th Party and the Assad family in nearly six decades, marking a watershed moment that tested the country’s ability to transition from collapse to...
Whenever the Caribbean or Latin America experiences political tensions or regional realignments, the United States tends to resurrect the familiar narrative of an “external threat.” Just as the “communist threat” dominated the Cold War and “terrorism” shaped post-9/11 policy, today...
In the aftermath of the fall of the Assad regime and Syria’s entry into a post-liberation phase, mosques have rapidly and profoundly reclaimed their place in public life. After decades of restrictions and security surveillance, these religious spaces have regained...
