Category: Middle East
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EU risks breaking international law over Isreal gas deal
A gas deal signed by Isreal, the EU, and Egypt that was up for renewal in June 2025 is likely to make the EU complicit in breaches of international law, according to an investigation by Global Witness. The gas deal was originally signed in 2022, during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in an attempt by the…
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights calls on Iran to halt death penalty amid rise in executions
According to the UN Human Rights Office, at least 612 people have reportedly been executed in Iran in 2025 so far. This is more than double the number reported during the same period in 2024. Reports indicate that at least 48 people are currently awaiting execution. Of those have been executed this year alone, more…
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US CENTCOM says it killed Islamic State leader in Syria
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said that it conducted a raid in Aleppo, Syria which resulted in the death of senior Islamic state leader Dhiya’ Zawba Muslih al-Hardani and his two adult Islamic state-affiliated sons Abdallah Dhiya al-Hardani and Abd al-Rahman Dhiya’ Zawba al-Hardani. CENTCOM said that the individuals posed a threat to US…
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Iran threat to UK is significant and rising, say lawmakers
The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament published its Report on Iran on 10th July 2025, after an ‘extensive inquiry took evidence from August 2021 to August 2023.’ The report found that the Iranian regime’s fundamental objective is to ‘ensure the survival and security of the Islamic Republic.’ To do this, Iran has focused of…
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Trump says Iran’s key nuclear sites were ‘obliterated’ by US air strikes
On 21st June 2025, US President Donald Trump made a national address where he confirmed that the ‘three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime’ had been destroyed. Trump called the strikes a ‘spectacular military success’, and added that Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities ‘have been completely and totally obliterated.’ The three sites, Fordo, Netanz, and…
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