World

The story of Palestine stretches from the Abrahamic covenant in Genesis, through the sixty-seven words of the 1917 Balfour Declaration that promised a Jewish national home in a land overwhelmingly inhabited by Arabs, to the 1988 proclamation of statehood by Yasser Arafat in Algiers, and on to the historic moment in September 2025 when G7 nations — France, the UK, and Canada — recognized Palestinian statehood for the first time. Today, 157 of 193 UN member states recognize the State of Palestine, yet nearly six million Palestinians still live without full sovereignty over their claimed territories. This is the complete factual account — ancient scripture, colonial diplomacy, international law, and the human reality on the ground.

Yasir Rai

Jun 1521 min

America is buying time. Pakistan is selling it. Trump has set hard Iran deadlines in March, April, May, and now June. Each has slipped. The negotiation everyone insists is almost there hasn't closed in four months. And Pakistan — written off as "isolated" two years ago — is the one country both Washington and Tehran still call.

ISN MEDIA

Jun 616 min

In 1962, the United States government ordered the Israel lobby to register as a foreign agent. The lobby changed its name instead. Six decades later, that renamed organization — AIPAC — spent $126.9 million in a single election cycle, funded 361 congressional candidates, and made the most expensive House primary in American history to destroy a Kentucky congressman who proposed cutting aid to Israel. The United States has given Israel over $310 billion since 1948 — more than any nation in the post-war world. A Pentagon audit found it couldn't fully track where the weapons went. The State Department acknowledged they likely violated international law. And the lobby that secures it all has never registered as a foreign agent. This is the documented story — from a biblical covenant in Genesis, through a 67-word British letter in 1917, to the $34 million Kentucky primary of May 2026. Every dollar traced. Every claim sourced. The line between fact and conspiracy drawn in permanent ink.

Yasir Rai

Jun 15

The "f***ing crazy" phone call wasn't the cause — it was the symptom. Beneath the surface of Trump and Netanyahu's public clash lies a tectonic realignment: a MAGA civil war, an Iranian wedge strategy working exactly as designed, a Gulf that has quietly flipped, a coalition trap Netanyahu cannot escape, and a generational shift in American politics that no diplomatic theater can reverse. This isn't a personality clash. It's the end of an era — and almost nobody is talking about it honestly.

Yasir Rai

Jun 313 min

The relationship between Europe and Israel — once anchored in shared democratic values and deep economic ties — is fracturing at a speed that would have been unthinkable two years ago. From Brussels to Madrid, European governments are facing one question they can no longer avoid: is Europe applying the same rules to Israel that it applied to Russia?

Yasir Rai

Jun 27 min

Israeli air strikes have hit new areas in the capital, Beirut, as part of a wider bombardment across Lebanon that killed at least 16 people on Friday The attacks represent a significant escalation in

ISN MEDIA

May 132 min

Israeli attacks struck Beirut’s southern suburbs in the early hours of Monday morning, forcing residents to flee their homes amid chaotic scenes

ISN MEDIA

May 131 min

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is facing criticism for his focus on media coverage of the ongoing military conflict with Iran The scrutiny comes as the US and Israel conduct one of th

ISN MEDIA

May 132 min

A Russian State Duma delegation, led by Vyacheslav Nikonov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, concluded a "historic" visit to Washington D.C. on March 28, 202

ISN MEDIA

May 134 min