Habib Siddiqui

  Israeli strikes have killed at least 32 people in Lebanon, threatening to derail talks between the United States and Iran aimed at cementing a fragile peace deal. US ⁠Vice ⁠President JD Vance said on Saturday that he expects to travel ‌to Switzerland for talks with Iran soon. “I expect that I will ⁠leave sometime in ⁠the next couple of days, but ⁠you know it’s ⁠always ⁠a delicate coordination dance and the diplomatic ‌protocols,” Vance told Fox News in an interview. Recommended Stories list of 4 items list 1 of 4 Iran ‘ready to move forward’ with US deal, says Israel must abide by terms list 2 of 4 Israel kills ‘a child a day’ on average in Gaza despite ceasefire, UN says list 3 of 4 US announces new round of Israel-Lebanon talks in Washington next week list 4 of 4 Does Trump have to submit the Iran memorandum of understanding to Congress? end of list This followed reports by US media outlets Axios and CNN on Friday, saying that US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s ...

  In the southern Iranian city of Minab, where the heat rises from the earth in shimmering waves and the reality of imperialism lingers in every port and military installation, a missile struck a school on 28 February 2026. The strike killed 156 people, notably 120 schoolchildren, which the Iranian government immediately called a ‘blatant crime.’ The United Nations called the attack ‘a grave violation of humanitarian law.’ The names of the murdered children have not circulated through the centres of global power with the same force as the names of generals, weapons systems, and technology platforms. The dead Iranians remain largely anonymous to those who debate the future of artificial intelligence (AI), which was used by the United States—as it turns out—on this strike. The murder of the children has opened a window into one of the central questions of our age: who bears responsibility when a machine enters the chain of violence? What role AI played remains unclear. Press re...

  85 killed, scores wounded since Friday in surge of attacks by Jason Ditz | June 20, 2026 at 10:28 am ET | Israel , Lebanon Friday morning’s attacks by Israel on Lebanon killed so many people they ended up postponing the US-Iran peace deal signing in Geneva, and the US and Qatar scrambled to announce Israel had agreed to yet another “ceasefire” with Hezbollah . The problem underpinning this was that Israel had already agreed to multiple ceasefires, and there was already one in place Friday morning when they killed in excess of 40 people. It should come as little surprise, then, that the latest “ceasefire” doesn’t seem to have even slowed down the Israeli slaughter, as heavy attacks continued throughout the night and into Saturday. After 47 killed and 93 wounded on Friday, the latest reports out of Lebanon have 38 more killed and scores more wounded on Saturday , bringing the toll since Friday morning to at least 85 Lebanese killed and well over 100 wounded. Smoke billows from sou...

  Trump, the Democrats and the Courage To End a Failed War Trump owns this failed war, but if the Democrats help torpedo the MOU and war resumes, then they will co-own the next war. by Trita Parsi | Jun 19, 2026 | 22 Comments Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack . I have spent years fighting against Trump’s push toward war with Iran, and I have the scars to prove it . When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018, I warned that it would eventually bring us to this moment. Ever since, I have consistently argued against the confrontational path he set the United States on. That record speaks for itself, which is why I can say what follows without any throat-clearing. Given the circumstances, President Trump’s decision to strike a deal with Tehran and bring this costly, unnecessary war to an end is the right one. It deserves support, not partisan second-guessing. As Rob Malley – a key member of Barack Obama’s team that negotiated the nuclear deal and later Joe Biden’s ...