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Yesterday 19:43
By Staff Writer
Tel Aviv struggles to counter Ansarallah strikes amid growing military failures
TEHRAN - Israel’s escalating conflict with Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has intensified, with recent reports highlighting Tel Aviv’s growing desperation to counter persistent missile attacks targeting occupied Palestinian territories.
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Yesterday 19:41
By Wesam Bahrani
New ambushes hit occupation regime’s military
TEHRAN – Palestinian resistance forces have conducted two major ambushes in Gaza, inflicting heavy losses on the Israeli occupation regime’s military.
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Yesterday 19:40
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Why does Jolani threaten Lebanon over his henchmen?
BEIRUT — Recently, the Foreign Ministry of the HTS-led government of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani leaked news about a “Syrian” intention to take punitive measures against Lebanon over the case of its terrorists kept in Lebanese prisons.
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2025-07-11 23:10
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Is Geagea pushing his ministers to resign?
BEIRUT—Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea continues to prioritize the slogan of “disarming Hezbollah,” particularly following the diminished influence of U.S. envoys in Lebanon's political landscape.
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2025-07-11 23:01
By Sahar Dadjoo
US move against UN Gaza investigator comes as a shock
TEHRAN - The United States' decision to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has ignited a global outcry and intensified debates over international justice, the independence of UN mechanisms, and the limits of state power.
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2025-07-08 22:14
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Concern over Barrack’s political storm: Will the trick of former US envoys be repeated?
BEIRUT — Observers took note of the unusually optimistic tone expressed by U.S. Special Envoy to Syria, Thomas Barrack, particularly in light of the heightened rhetoric suggesting that Lebanon could face major escalation if it failed to comply with his proposal to disarm Hezbollah.
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2025-07-08 22:13
By Wesam Bahrani
Gaza turns into occupation's graveyard
TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime’s soldiers have been caught up in a sophisticated ambush described as one of the “deadliest” since October 7, 2023.
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2025-07-08 22:10
By Sahar Dadjoo
Exclusive: Expert says Israel would have been destroyed had it attacked Iran without Western backing
The Canadian lawyer says attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites were a ‘violation of international law’
TEHRAN - In an exclusive interview with Tehran Times, Dimitri Lascaris, a prominent Canadian lawyer, journalist, and human rights activist, offers a powerful critique of the recent Israeli and U.S. military strikes against Iran.
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![Lebanese emergency responders inspect the debris at the site of a reported Israeli strike on a vehicle in Khaldeh, south of the capital, Beirut, on July 3, 2025 [Ibrahim Amro/AFP]](https://media.tehrantimes.com/d/t/2025/07/07/2/5591298.jpg)
2025-07-07 22:39
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Israel escalates aggression on eve of Barrack visit: Will the war resume?
BEIRUT — The Israeli regime has expanded the scope of its strikes on the eve of the visit of Thomas Barrack – the U.S. Special Envoy to Syria - to Beirut to receive Lebanon’s official response to his proposal.
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2025-07-07 22:33
By Wesam Bahrani
Yemen strongly pounds Israel with missiles and drones
“Anyone who attacks Gaza and Yemen will not sleep”
TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime’s aggression against Yemen prompts a surprisingly widespread retaliation.
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2025-07-07 22:29
By Sahar Dadjoo
Exclusive: Jeffrey Sachs reveals real motives behind Israel’s raid on Iran
Professor Sachs says U.S.-Israel divide-and-conquer strategy fuels Middle East instability
TEHRAN - In the wake of the unprecedented joint military aggression by Israel and the United States against Iran, international observers have turned their attention to the deeper motivations behind the attack, its geopolitical implications, and the broader trajectory of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
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2025-07-07 15:54
Israeli forces arrest Al Mayadeen bureau chief in West Bank
Israeli occupation forces arrested Nasser al-Lahham, director of Al Mayadeen’s office in occupied Palestine, on Monday, during a pre-dawn raid on his home in Beit Lahm, southern West Bank.
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2025-07-06 22:27
By Sahar Dadjoo
Nizar Banat Award highlights struggle of Gaza medical workers
Physicians in Gaza fight on despite brutal attacks
TEHRAN- In the ongoing brutal and relentless war in Gaza, healthcare workers are experiencing multileveled unprecedented threats that go beyond the obvious threats of being in a war zone.
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2025-07-06 22:26
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Bin Farhan precedes Barrack to Beirut to stir up Sunnis in pressure campaign against Hezbollah
BEIRUT— Not to mention the progress of U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack’s proposal aimed at disarming Hezbollah, it goes without saying that in the coming weeks, Lebanon will be automatically affected by the Gaza negotiations and leaks about Syria’s intention to normalize relations with Israel.
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2025-07-06 22:24
By Wesam Bahrani
Hamas sends unified truce response
TEHRAN – Hamas has responded to a ceasefire proposal in a “positive” manner reflective of a unified stance among all Gaza resistance forces.
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2025-07-06 13:04
Yemen fires missile at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport
The Yemeni Armed Forces launched a hypersonic ballistic missile against Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday in retaliation for the Zionist regime’s brutal campaign in Gaza, Tasnim reported.
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2025-07-04 01:45
Houthi: Iran's might forced Israel to halt aggression, set new equation
The leader of Yemen’s Ansarallah movement has highlighted Iran’s robust military response as the key factor that forced the Israeli regime to halt its recent aggression after 12 days.
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2025-07-02 20:29
By Sondos Al-Asaad
Israel intensifies concerns on the Lebanon-Syria border
BEIRUT — Day after day, concerns about potential threats to Lebanon’s eastern borders with Syria are growing. This is due to the failure of security and military meetings between the two countries to end recurring attacks on Lebanese villages by the HTS gangs.
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![Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani shakes hands with U.S. Special Envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack in Damascus, Syria, May 29, 2025 [Firas Makdesi/Reuters]](https://media.tehrantimes.com/d/t/2025/07/02/2/5581603.jpg)
2025-07-02 20:21
Will Syria and Israel normalize ties?
TEHRAN - The new government in Syria is resetting its regional relations, and a lot of focus is on what will happen with Israel, Al Jazeera said in an explainer on July 1.
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2025-07-02 19:53
Prime warmonger Netanyahu wants 'forever war': analysis
Forever war keeps Netanyahu in power and out of jail
TEHRAN - Simon Tisdall, a Guardian columnist, says “forever war keeps” Prime Minister Netanyahu “in power” and “out of jail”.
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2025-07-01 23:17
By Salman Parviz
Trump’s trade war on China: Implications on global trade
TEHRAN -- Economic conflict between China and the United States has been ongoing since January 2018, when the U.S. President Donald Trump began imposing tariffs and other trade barriers on China during his first term.
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2025-07-01 23:14
By Wesam Bahrani
Over 100 leading global NGOs slam Gaza aid system
“Orphaned children and caregivers are among the dead”
TEHRAN – Over 100 leading global NGOs fiercely denounce the Israeli occupation regime’s “deadly” and “militarized” aid delivery system in Gaza.
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2025-07-01 23:13
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Why do the Lebanese Forces want to amend electoral law?
Unfair law against Shiite diaspora
BEIRUT — The anti–Resistance team, led by the Lebanese Forces party, failed on Monday to include in the urgent, duplicate draft law aimed at allowing expatriates to vote for the entire parliamentary seats, not just six seats (allocated for non-residents across the 6 continents, under the current parliamentary electoral law).
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2025-07-01 20:51
UN rapporteur: Tech firms and corporations profiting from Israeli 'economy of genocide'
A UN expert has called on corporations to cut ties with Israel and for executives to be held accountable for enabling and profiting from crimes including illegal occupation, apartheid and genocide in the occupied Palestinian territories, Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday.
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2025-06-30 22:18
By Wesam Bahrani
Israel suffers more casualties
TEHRAN – Palestinian resistance forces have started more deadly operations against the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza.
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2025-06-30 22:15
By Sondos Al-Asaad
Why is Washington pressing Lebanon to put Hezbollah weapons to vote in cabinet?
BEIRUT — Israel’s Channel 14 revealed a U.S. plan that “is not unlikely to materialize” to drag Arab and Islamic countries into normalization with the Israeli entity within a year at the latest.
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2025-06-30 20:34
US, Israel have failed to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program: nuclear policy analyst
“You cannot destroy knowledge and technology”
TEHRAN – In an interview with Australasian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a scholar specializing in Middle East security and nuclear policy says if Israel and the United States intended to destroy Iran’s nuclear program they have failed.
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2025-06-29 22:43
By Amir Mohammad Esmaeili
Elite diplomacy and the Iran–China strategic partnership
SHANGHAI - In the third decade of the 21st century, West Asia and the broader international politics are undergoing rapid and profound transformations. The Ukraine crisis, escalating tensions in West Asia, the twelve-day war between Iran and Israel, and the aggressive policies of the Trump administration—including the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and the tariff war—are all part of this dynamic landscape.
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2025-06-29 22:42
By Wesam Bahrani
Syrians reject Israeli “aid”
TEHRAN – As the Zionist regime expands its grip on southern Syria, locals are refusing to extend their hands to the occupation regime.
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2025-06-29 22:41
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon is a strategic threat to Israel
BEIRUT — Amidst the complex political landscape, Washington is gradually revealing the extent of its blatant interference in Lebanon’s internal affairs through statements that ignore reality and disregard the will of the people, of whom Hezbollah is an integral part.