As Trump’s May 2025 visit to Saudi Arabia nears, and with normalization stalled by the Israeli war on Gaza, Washington is offering “rewards” in return for the kingdom’s expected trillion-dollar deal.

The Israeli Occupation’s relentless bombardment of southern Lebanon over nearly two years has inflicted unprecedented damage on the country’s agricultural sector through a systematic campaign targeting its vital farmlands.

In an in-depth interview with Al-Estiklal, Ali Abu Yassin, the head of the Islamic Group’s political office in Lebanon, discussed key issues affecting Lebanon, including the new government’s concentration of power, the halt in gas exploration, and the refusal of normalization with “Israel.”

Twenty-two years after the 2003 attack on a U.S. diplomatic convoy in Gaza, American private security firms are making a return—this time under a ceasefire agreement to inspect Palestinian vehicles traveling between northern and southern Gaza.

Despite plans to increase production from its Zohr gas field, which saw a decline in output in 2023 and 2024, Cairo shocked everyone with a new agreement with Tel Aviv: the extension of a third Israeli gas pipeline to Egypt, increasing imports by 17%.