By staff writer 

The mirage of peace: Gaza under fire

TEHRAN – It has been more than 50 days since a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect, intended to end the Gaza war. For Palestinians, however, that promise has meant nothing. The Israeli bombardment has continued unabated, and the humanitarian crisis has only deepened.

By Wesam Bahrani 

Global rebuke of Israeli occupation 

TEHRAN – The United Nations overwhelmingly condemns the ongoing Israeli occupation of Arab lands amid opposition by the U.S. and a few of its allies.

By Sondoss Al Asaad 

Naqoura talks: Trojan Horse of economic and political normalization

BEIRUT—The Lebanese government’s decision to appoint former ambassador Simon Karam, a civilian with openly political positions, to lead the Lebanese delegation in the so-called Military Technical Committee meetings in Naqoura is not a procedural adjustment. Rather, it is a political landmine.

By staff writer 

Venezuelan voices vs. America’s cannons

TEHRAN – Venezuelans took to the streets in Caracas and other cities this week to protest escalating U.S. military pressure. The demonstrations follow the continued presence of the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group in the Caribbean and thousands of U.S. troops in the region. The U.S. has also carried out more than 20 strikes on maritime targets in the Caribbean and Pacific since early September, killing over 80 people, actions that Caracas says go beyond anti-drug operations and threaten Venezuelan sovereignty.

By Sondoss Al Asaad

Sanctified semantics: Lebanon’s risky drift into the ‘Abrahamic’ politics

BEIRUT—President Joseph Aoun’s description of Lebanon as a place where “all the Children of Abraham can meet” was portrayed as a gesture of coexistence during his address to Pope Leo XIV.

By staff writer 

From accord to atrocity: Gaza human cost mounts under broken truce 

TEHRAN – The U.S.-brokered ceasefire that went into effect on October 10 was designed to end two years of relentless Israeli military operations in Gaza. Yet, less than two months later, it has proven to be little more than a paper promise. 

By Nabil Mansour

Could the Pope’s Lebanon visit temper Israeli threats and mend political divisions?

BEIRUT - Pope Leo XIV’s arrival in Beirut—his first foreign trip since ascending the papacy—comes at a moment when Lebanon is poised between escalating Israeli threats and a political class locked in chronic division. 

By Wesam Bahrani 

West Bank raids deepen as annexation calls rise

TEHRAN – The Israeli regime is escalating its raids in the West Bank amid rising calls to formally annex the occupied territories.

By Shahrokh Saei 

Law above the clouds: Caracas counters Washington’s illegal threats

TEHRAN – Venezuela has forcefully rejected recent threats from President Donald Trump to treat its skies as closed, arguing the United States has no legal authority to impose restrictions on another nation’s airspace. Officials in Caracas insist that the move is not only illegitimate but also a direct challenge to the principles of international law.

By Sondoss Al Asaad

Lebanon’s war anxiety: Between genuine peril and manufactured panic

BEIRUT- Lebanese society has long been marked by debates, disagreements, and deep ideological fault lines. Division is not a uniquely Lebanese pathology but a universal human reflex—dating back, as Rousseau suggested, to the moment the first man staked a claim and declared, “This is mine.”

By Wesam Bahrani 

Gaza’s death toll hits grim milestone of 70,000

TEHRAN – More than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed as the occupying Israeli regime’s genocidal assault on Gaza continues with no end in sight.

By Wesam Bahrani 

“Ceasefire” masks ongoing Israeli aggression 

TEHRAN – Despite the October 11 truce, the occupying Israeli regime continues expanding its military presence and attacks across Gaza, worsening Palestinian suffering.

By Sondoss Al Asaad

Will south Syria replicate south Lebanon’s experience?

BEIRUT — The dramatic events that shook Beit Jinn Friday at dawn have revived a question long whispered in regional security circles: Is south Syria on the cusp of developing its own south Lebanon–style Resistance model? 

By staff writer 

Israel’s brutality on display: From Jenin to UN torture warnings

TEHRAN – The execution-style killing of two unarmed Palestinian men in Jenin — shot at point-blank range after they surrendered with their hands raised — has triggered international outrage and renewed scrutiny of Israel’s entrenched culture of impunity. For Palestinians, however, the atrocity is tragically familiar, another chapter in a long narrative of unchecked state violence.

By Wesam Bahrani 

Israeli troops injured amid deadly aggression on Syria

At least 10 Syrian civilians are killed

TEHRAN – Hebrew media reports that 13 Israeli troops have been injured in Syria after locals resisted another invasion. 

By Shahrokh Saei 

Trump’s Venezuela war drums: Drug fight or oil grab?

TEHRAN – The latest statements from President Donald Trump mark one of the most serious escalations in the long confrontation between the United States and Venezuela.  

By Sondoss Al Asaad 

Lebanon, one year after a sham “ceasefire”

BEIRUT — A year after the ceasefire was declared between Lebanon and Israel, the country remains suspended in a fragile limbo, caught between persistent security threats, entrenched political fractures, and mounting international pressures.

By Shahrokh Saei 

China’s pivotal role affirmed in Xi’s ‘Palestinians governing Palestine’ message

TEHRAN – Chinese President Xi Jinping’s remarks on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People highlight China’s constructive role in Middle Eastern diplomacy.

By Sondoss Al Asaad

The unfailing reservoir behind Hezbollah

BEIRUT — For decades, the United States and Israel have repeatedly wagered that relentless pressure would erode the resolve of those loyal to the Resistance. 

By Silvina Pachelo

Exported war: How Israel turned Latin America into its silent laboratory

BUENOS AIRES — In a world increasingly fragmented, exports are no longer limited to soy, lithium, or energy. Israel, home to one of the planet’s most advanced military industries, exports something different: security. A word that, in practice, encompasses surveillance technologies, population control, and conflict management developed in contexts of occupation and permanent tension.

By Sondoss Al Asaad 

Hezbollah reshaping the battlefield before the fight

SOUTH LEBANON—Hezbollah has never fought from a position of conventional parity. It has always confronted an enemy with overwhelming technological capacity, vast intelligence resources, and near-limitless Western backing. Yet history established a stubborn truth: despite asymmetry, the Zionist enemy failed repeatedly to convert its intelligence superiority into decisive victory or reoccupation. 

By staff writer 

The protected criminal syndicate

How long can Israel evade international scrutiny with Western support?

TEHRAN – The Thirtieth Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CSP30), which opened on November 24, is meant to symbolize international cooperation against the scourge of chemical weapons. Delegates gather to reaffirm collective responsibility, transparency, and the shared determination to prevent the horrors of WMD use.

By Shahrokh Saei 

Truce as trap

Israel’s Beirut strike exposes ceasefire as a cover for carnage, with Tabtabai’s killing raising fears of wider war

TEHRAN – Nearly a year after Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire, and just weeks after a truce with Hamas in Gaza, the situation on the ground shows that neither agreement has brought lasting calm.

By Wesam Bahrani 

Who was Martyr Haitham Al-Tabtabai?

TEHRAN – The Military Media Unit of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has published a profile of senior military commander Haitham Ali Al-Tabtabai, known as Sayyed Abu Ali.

By Sondoss Al Asaad

Is Iran truly the only file on Lebanese foreign minister’s desk?

SOUTH LEBANON — One might assume, from the noise, theatrics, and selective outrage, that the Lebanese Foreign Minister’s desk is buried under one file and that is Iran. Everything else, it seems, can wait.

By Sondoss Al Asaad

Lebanon’s independence discourse: Between symbolism and strategic realities

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s 82nd Independence Day speech was made amid a national climate marked by uncertainty, sacrifice, and a persistent longing for a tangible, “third” independence, one defined by security, territorial integrity, and genuine sovereignty.