May 2025

India and Pakistan Need Soul Searching: What is Next after the Ceasefire?
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: India and Pakistan have friendly ties with the USA, China, Russia and West European nations and leaders of these countries must take initiatives to make India and Pakistan understand the strategy of peace-making and good neighborly relationships as a preventive measure to stop a dreadful futuristic war. Any substantial rethinking for political change would require habitual practice of honesty, rational candour, frankness and sincerity of purpose to avoid dreadful tragedies. Recall that truth, glory and honor live in righteousness not in wickedness. Read More

India-Pakistan War: Chinese Weapons Get Combat Test
Newsweek: Escalating hostilities between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan—a close strategic ally of Beijing—may be serving as a testing ground for Chinese defense technology. This would include the first "kill" ever by the Chengdu J-10C multirole fighter, a Chinese-built jet Pakistan said shot down Indian air force fighters Wednesday. Read More

India tried to project strength but ended up showing weakness
Al Jazeera: In the aftermath of Operation Sindoor, India’s image as a regional hegemon has frayed. Read More

Israel bombs Gaza school, kills 15; Hamas to free US-Israeli captive
Al Jazeera: Hamas says it will release US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander and confirms holding direct talks with the United States. Israel pounds Gaza, bombing a school-turned-shelter and killing at least 15, as its total blockade on the Strip enters its 71st day. Read More

Islamic Jihad: No release of Israeli captives without full end to the war
Palestinian Information Center: Mohammad al-Hindi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, stated that the Palestinian resistance will not release any Israeli captives unless Israel halts its war and ends the campaign of genocide in Gaza. Read More

Pakistan Cricket On Decline
By Syed Rifaquat Ali: Once the most potent force in International Cricket, now Pakistan is just a mediocre outfit like the sister sport field hockey. Pakistan has won the maximum number of FIH trophies in the recent past. And today Pakistan is struggling to qualify for the Olympics.  Read More

India-Pakistan tensions surge as both sides trade attack claims

Pakistan downs 25 Indian drones as tensions with archrival climb
Daily Sabah: Pakistani officials announced Thursday that the country's air defense systems shot down over two dozen Indian drones overnight, including one that struck a military site near Lahore, injuring soldiers and causing damage. The latest exchanges come a day after India said it hit targets inside Pakistan in the early hours of Wednesday, two weeks after it accused the neighboring country of involvement in an attack in India-ruled Kashmir in which 26 people were killed. Read More

South Asia on knife’s edge after Indo-Pakistani clash
World Socialist Web Site: India and Pakistan, South Asia’s rival nuclear-armed powers, are teetering on the precipice of all-out war after their largest military clash in decades left dozens of civilians dead. Pakistan announced Wednesday that its National Security Council has “fully authorized” the country’s military to respond to India’s Tuesday night (May 6-7) aerial assault “at a time, place and manner of its choosing.”  Read More

World Central Kitchen Halts Gaza Meals as Israel Blocks Aid at Border
Quds News Network: Gaza (Quds News Network)- World Central Kitchen (WCK) has stopped cooking meals and baking bread in Gaza after running out of supplies. The group says Israeli border closures since early March have blocked food and fuel deliveries, making continued operations impossible. Read More

Famine in Gaza: Will We Continue to Watch as Gaza Starves to Death?
by Dr Ramzy Baroud: The situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract political concessions from Palestinian groups operating there. Read More

Vatican crowds hail Leo XIV as new pope of the Catholic Church
Vatican City – It felt like the square could talk in one voice: “Leone! Leone! Leone!” Thousands of people in St Peter’s Square chanted in chorus the name adopted by Robert Prevost as he ascended to the papacy on Thursday: Leo XIV. Just an hour and a half earlier, white smoke had billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, announcing that a conclave of cardinals had elected a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. Read More

Revolution from the Soil: Anti-Imperialism and Food Sovereignty in Burkina Faso
Global Research: Burkina Faso, under President Ibrahim Traoré, has become a focal point for anti-imperialist sentiment and political renewal in Africa. Traoré’s government has taken bold steps to assert national sovereignty, including the expulsion of French military forces, the denunciation of Western interference and the forging of new regional alliances with Russia and Sahelian neighbours. Read More

Genocide in Palestine and Arab-Muslim Leaders Watching it
By Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: Life has a purpose to co-exist in peace and harmony with others in diversity. But people and nations overwhelmed with delusional economic prosperity act as absolute monsters ignoring the consequences – a favorite perversion of truth, killings and displacement of innocent until they get destroyed by their own plans against God and mankind. Everything in the universe is interlinked to a purpose, truth and accountability of those with power and responsibility. Widening gaps between hopes and reality signal a new trajectory of planned military occupation (as the Israeli cabinet announced today) of Gaza, continuous bombardments, forcible displacement of Palestinians and genocide to turn the strip into a Riveira as Netanyahu- Trump envisaged it. The complicity of Western and Arab leaders facilitated this mayhem in the making. Read More

Yemeni Air Force targeted Ben Gurion with hypersonic ballistic missile: Saree
Al Mayadeen: The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) fired a hypersonic ballistic missile at Ben Gurion airport in the occupied Palestinian territories, targeting the area of Terminal 3, according to an announcement by the YAF's spokesperson, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, on Sunday. Saree revealed that the US and Israeli interception systems failed to intercept the missile and forced more than three million settlers to flee.   Read More

Al-Qassam Brigades ambush Israaeli Forces in Rafah tunnel operation
Al Mayadeen: The Al-Qassam Brigades released a statement providing a detailed account of the ambush that targeted Israeli forces in Rafah on Saturday, at the height of "Israel's" genocidal war on Gaza. Al-Qassam Brigades said that their fighters successfully drew an Israeli engineering unit toward a tunnel entrance that had been pre-rigged with explosives. The operation began with direct engagement, during which the fighters killed several members of the unit at point-blank range. Read More

Gaza death toll reaches 52,535 as fuel delivery blocked to hospitals
Al Mayadeen: The Israeli occupation is still blocking fuel access to Gaza's hospitals, risking shutdowns as Gaza’s death toll rises to 52,535 and fuel runs critically low. Read More

Only Muslim unity to stop tragedies like Gaza, Yemen: Sayyed Khamenei
Al Mayadeen: The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, emphasized the urgent need for unity among Muslim nations to prevent tragedies like those unfolding in Gaza and Yemen. His remarks came during a speech in Tehran on Sunday, addressed to officials and organizers of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Sayyed Khamenei underscored the significance of Hajj as a symbol of unity across the Islamic world, stressing that the gathering transcends race, ethnicity, and national borders. Read More

Violent mobs from Brooklyn to the West Bank are united in the fascism of Zionism
Mondoweiss: Violent attacks by a mob of Itamar Ben-Gvir supporters in New York City cannot be separated from the violence that Palestinians have been facing for decades. They are all reflections of the same fascist violence of Zionism. Read More

Federal judge orders release of Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi from ICE detention
Mondoweiss: A federal judge in Vermont ordered Mohsen Mahdawi be released from detention and compared the administration's crackdown on dissent to the Red Scare. Upon his release, Mahdawi declared, “To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you.” Read More

US-Iran talks postponed due to conflicting US positions
Al Mayadeen: The fourth round of indirect US-Iran nuclear talks in Rome has been postponed, Iranian sources told Al Mayadeen on Thursday. Washington and Tehran have been engaging in talks over the past month on a deal to limit Iran's nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions. The postponement came in light of the conflicting positions taken by the US administration regarding the talks, the sources pointed out. Read More

US, Israeli schemes seek to tear Ummah from within: Sayyed al-Houthi
Al Mayadeen: The leader of Yemen's Ansar Allah emphasizes that the aggression led by the US and "Israel" is part of a broader strategy aimed at implementing the Zionist plot against the Ummah. The steadfastness of the Resistance fighters in Gaza is “remarkable”, and their operations “took the enemy by surprise and struck at the core of its strategy,” the leader of Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul Malik al-Houthi, affirmed on Thursday. In a speech marking the anniversary of the “Sarkha” (The Cry), Sayyed al-Houthi also praised the role of the Lebanese Resistance in deterring "Israel" and stressed that the American aggression on Yemen is part of the broader battle against the Ummah (Islamic nation). Read More