Iran says US-Israeli attacks on the Mahshahr Petrochemical Zone have killed five and wounded 170.

Depuis le début de la guerre au Moyen-Orient, des experts suivent l’escalade avec une crainte particulière : le ciblage d’usines de dessalement. Les deux camps ont menacé de s’en prendre à ces infrast...

Michael Christopher Low worries that any bid by the US to seize Kharg Island could jeopardize the region’s desalination facilities.

Destroying the facilities is a violation of international law that could cause a humanitarian crisis in the most water-scare region on Earth. Powering the plants with electricity from fossil fuels pos...

LONDON: Wars in the Middle East have long been measured in spikes to global oil prices, the sight of burning refineries, and missile trails crisscrossing over busy shipping lanes. Now, for the first t...

Conflict is placing drinking water at risk as missile and drone strikes encroach on desalination plants that sustain the region.

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As the conflict with Iran widens, experts say the Middle East’s real strategic weak point may be water – not oil. (AP Photo)

Bahrain has accused Iran of striking a desalination plant as the regional war expands and targets more civilian sites.

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Iran is exposing their vulnerabilities.

Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.

Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.

In a recent interview with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, the conservative activist Christopher Rufo pivoted from his usual focus on the ideological biases of higher education...

Written byRaseef22 This post by Mohamed Yousry, was first published in Arabic by Raseef 22* on February 15, 2025. This edited version was translated into English and published on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement.  ( Global Voices ) –…

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The airstrip on Abd al-Kuri Island, which rises out of the Indian Ocean, could provide a key landing zone for military operations patrolling that waterway.

This talk analyses the role that concepts of “nature” played in the context of Ottoman imperial governance in the Province of Yemen from its establishment in the early 1870s to the end of Ottoman rule...

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