⚠️ An Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed US service members in the early hours of the Iran War was more severe than previously admitted, with dozens suffering injuries that included brain trauma, shrapnel trauma and burns.
Great work by NYT showing Trump's war is the most unpopular ever. Supports my argument (see below) that in some ways the public rejection of Trump across the board is a very heartening development:
“We’re not starting a war, we’re ending one” was a Russian talking point on Ukraine — four years ago.
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Exclusive: The Metropolitan Police interviewed Virginia Giuffre 3 times after her lawyers handed them a dossier of evidence saying that she was trafficked to UK by Epstein and Maxwell, and made her have sex with Prince Andrew
But they did not launch an investigation
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...
This administration……🤦♂️
Exclusive: Lebanon's Hezbollah is applying lessons from its last war with Israel as it braces for a possible full-scale Israeli invasion and protracted conflict, returning to its roots in guerrilla warfare in south Lebanon, four Lebanese sources said reut.rs/4cFzjNg
The World Health Organization warned that the 'black rain' falling in Iran after strikes on oil facilities could cause respiratory problems, and it backed Iran’s advisory urging people to remain indoors reut.rs/4s5G7bI
Almost 700,000 displaced, 84 children killed after Israeli strikes on Lebanon, UN agencies say
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Siban Hamo of the SDF is appointed Assistant Minister of Defence for the Eastern Region by the Syrian government.
Siban Hamo is considered second in command in the SDF after Mazloum Abdi.
— Enab Baladi
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(Washington, D.C., March 10, 2026)—In response to a crackdown on freedom of expression by the governments of Qatar and Bahrain during the ongoing regional war, DAWN issues the following statement:
"More than 667,000 people in Lebanon have now registered on the (Lebanese) government's online platform as displaced. This is an increase of 100,000 in just one day," said Karolina Lindholm Billing, the representative in Lebanon of UNHCR
These geniuses, led by chronically inebriated GI Joe Hegseth?
"Several nuclear experts have raised questions about the disastrous duo’s technical understanding of uranium enrichment after they presented an assessment of Iran’s Research Reactor that made no sense."
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Syrian becomes first person in UK charged with crimes against humanity
Former intelligence officer for Bashar al-Assad’s armed forces arrested in Buckinghamshire
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...
“Israel’s latest war on Lebanon is intended to uproot and dispossess Lebanon’s Shia community as a whole. Aside from committing war crimes, Israel is trying to instigate a new sectarian conflict in Lebanon.”
@mbazzi.bsky.social, DAWN Fellow. Director, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU.
Sec. Hegseth says the strategy in Iran is:
- destroy their missile stockpiles, their missile launchers and their defense industrial base missiles and their ability to make them.
- destroy their navy and permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons, forever.
No mention of "day after" plans.
Precies over een maand, op 12 maart verschijnt mijn boek De symfonie van onvrede: De opmars van radicaal-rechts in Europa bij Querido:
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Dit boek gaat me aan het hart en ik kom graag een lezing geven.
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Trump says ships are currently moving through the Strait of Hormuz but says he is “thinking about taking it over.” He warned Iran: “They’ve shot everything they have to shoot, and they better not try anything cute or it’s going to be the end of that country.” -CBS News
Yes, and to be clear I am Dutch but my Arabic is more eastern Mediterranean..
(Walaken kanefham dariija shwiiya)
Key Details of 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser’s Accounts Are Verified www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-... via @thedailybeast
The blue town no? And the Arabic of Chefchaouene is doable for my merely Egyptian / Levantine ears..
The Syrian Kurds are not being “betrayed” by the U.S. Being asked to relinquish most—though not all—of the Arab areas they occupied isn’t betrayal. Meanwhile, the PKK-affiliated faction in Syria continues killing fellow Kurds.
Debris from an Iranian missile intercepted by NATO came down near Gaziantep in southern Turkey, north of Azaz in Syria’s Aleppo province.
Syria TV: Two killed by Iranian missile in Central Israel
(Prob Petach Tikva/Rishon Letzion)
Israel conducted an overnight raid in Lebanon searching for Ron Arad, the Israeli pilot who disappeared after bailing out of his plane over Lebanon in 1986.
The raid took place in Nabi Sheet to search for traces of the missing pilot — but Israeli forces found no remains or evidence and withdrew.
People gathered in a square in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 7, 2026, to protest U.S. and Israeli military attacks on Iran and call for an immediate end to the war.
NEW: Iran is expanding its target list, moving beyond military sites to include U.S. economic assets and strategic interests across the region, according to a source cited by Fars News.
The irony is physically painful.
