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2026-09-30 19:06
Ansarallah’s gains could reverberate beyond Saudi Arabia
TEHRAN - In a commentary published on its website, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said that victories by Yemen’s Ansarallah forces against Saudi-backed forces have brought them within 80 miles of Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, which houses the United States’ only permanent and largest military base on the African continent.
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2026-09-30 16:47
Iraqis celebrate the exit of US occupation forces after 23 years
Iraqis poured into the streets on Wednesday to celebrate the withdrawal of U.S. forces from their country after 23 years of occupation.
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2026-09-30 15:13
By staff writer
Israel systematically burns Palestinian homes in West Bank, assaults holy sites
Settler attacks have reached the highest rate in more than two decades
TEHRAN — The return of the Tubasi family to their home in Jalud lasted less than a single day. Forced from their village south of Nablus two months ago by armed Israeli settlers, the family obtained a court order guaranteeing their safe return under military protection.
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2026-09-29 22:31
By Ali Minabi
Iraq’s sovereignty should not be defined by a single day
TEHRAN – Freedom without the means to defend it is only a promise and sovereignty without the power to protect it is only a symbol.
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2026-09-29 22:31
Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah threatens airspace closure over ban on Iran flights
TEHRAN – The security chief of Kata’ib Hezbollah on Monday warned the Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Ali Faleh Al-Zaidi that if Iraq continues the air blockade against Iran after Oct. 1, people may close the entry points to Iraq’s airspace for other countries that join the air ban.
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2026-09-29 22:28
By staff writer
Netanyahu flew over Jordan and Saudi Arabia for clandestine talks in Abu Dhabi
TEHRAN — On Sunday, a private jet carrying Benjamin Netanyahu took off from Israel, entered Jordanian airspace, crossed into Saudi Arabia, and touched down in Abu Dhabi. Gaza lies in ruins under years of relentless bombardment. The International Criminal Court had issued an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister. Yet two Arab states provided clear skies, and a third opened its airport tarmac and hosted Netanyahu for ominous talks with other regional actors.
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2026-09-28 21:02
Iraqis hold rallies protesting suspension of flights with Iran
TEHRAN – Large numbers of people held protests in the shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala to express their strong opposition to the Iraqi government’s decision to suspend direct flights between Iran and Iraq at the Trump administration’s order.
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2026-09-28 21:01
By staff writer
South Lebanon faces aggressive Israeli offensive as US ‘diplomacy’ provides cover
TEHRAN — A massive explosion orchestrated by Israeli forces tore through the coastal town of al-Mansouri in southern Lebanon on Monday, sending violent tremors across the Tyre district.
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2026-09-28 21:00
By Ali Minabi
Toxic warfare threatens Gaza’s survival
TEHRAN – As though the Israeli regime had not already taken enough Palestinian lives, it now appears to be employing new methods to harm and kill them.
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2026-09-27 20:52
By Ali Minabi
What the new Moroccan–Israeli relationship means
TEHRAN – No previous U.S. president has served Israel in a way that Donald Trump has done for Netanyahu’s terror regime.
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2026-09-27 19:37
5 arrested near British air base used by US over alleged bomb plot
British authorities evacuated several homes on Sunday over fears of explosive ordnance near RAF Fairford, an air force base in southern England. American military personnel are stationed at the base, and the United States has used it in recent months to load B-52 and B-1 bombers before sending them to strike sites in Iran.
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2026-09-27 19:22
Trump is first and foremost a 'fabulist'
TEHRAN - Daniel Dale, a former Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star wrote an analysis casting light on Donald Trump’s lies, calling him a “fabulist”.
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2026-09-26 20:45
By staff writer
US intelligence says Saudi Arabia has not abandoned its nuclear weapons ambitions
TEHRAN — Classified U.S. intelligence submitted to Congress reveals that Saudi Arabia has not abandoned plans to develop nuclear weapons, according to a Washington Post report citing American officials.
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2026-09-26 20:45
By Ali Minabi
A voice that martyrdom cannot silence: Sayyed Nasrallah’s legacy
TEHRAN — Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated by the Zionist regime with heavy U.S. weaponry that destroyed a southern Beirut neighborhood on September 27, 2024.
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2026-09-26 20:44
By staff writer
Iraqi Resistance threatens nationwide sit-ins over US-pushed Iran flight ban
Mass rallies demand end to Iraqi compliance with US flight sanctions
TEHRAN — The United States expanded its economic warfare against Iran into Iraqi airspace this week. Baghdad complied. Resistance factions immediately pushed back.
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2026-09-25 20:45
By staff writer
A War Criminal’s Fiction to Empty Seats
From 77 delegations walking out inside to a mass protest outside, Netanyahu faces overwhelming rejection
TEHRAN — On September 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at the United Nations General Assembly rostrum facing hundreds of vacant seats. As his name was announced, 77 diplomatic delegations stood up and walked out of the hall in a coordinated repudiation of Israel’s genocidal campaign against Gaza and the war against Iran, as well as other regional campaigns of aggression.
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2026-09-25 17:29
By Silvina Pachelo
NAZA, off screen
BUENOS AIRES — For months, we have been living with harrowing images from Gaza, amid allegations and accusations of genocide. Images, testimonies, and an incessant flow of information—and yet nothing stops. Gaza has also become this: the repetition of unbearable scenes that we see again and again, without their accumulation seeming sufficient to interrupt the machinery that produces them.
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2026-09-25 17:13
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon’s silenced voice
Diplomacy in Lebanon is growing quieter in the face of relentless Israeli aggression
BEIRUT—On September 23, President Masoud Pezeshkian seized the 81st session of the UN General Assembly not as a ceremonial platform, but as a political battlefield, directly confronting the narrative presented by Washington and Israel.
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2026-09-23 19:52
By staff writer
Israel’s climate crimes
TEHRAN - Israel’s environmental damage in Palestine has accompanied the destruction of Palestinian lives, homes and livelihoods. Farmlands and olive groves have been burned or destroyed, while homes, vehicles, cities and refugee camps have been repeatedly bombarded.
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2026-09-23 18:58
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
The empty chairs of Minab
MASHHAD — The courtyard was full before the first bell rang. Thousands of children in freshly pressed uniforms stood under a sky that felt too ordinary for the day. They hadn't gathered to start a new school year.
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2026-09-23 18:49
ICC refuses to withdraw arrest warrant against Netanyahu
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has taken no steps to withdraw arrest warrants or related applications concerning Israeli officials, despite mounting pressure and sanctions from the United States, Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan has said.
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2026-09-22 21:12
By staff writer
ICC blacklist plan prompts US senator’s calls to sanction Trump and Rubio
TEHRAN — U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen on Monday called on European governments and signatories to the Rome Statute to impose sanctions on President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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2026-09-22 21:11
By Ali Minabi
Shifting regional dynamics deepen pressure on Israel
TEHRAN – Developments in Yemen reveal the Axis of Resistance’s new strategy to reshape the strategic landscape from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and East Africa.
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2026-09-22 21:11
Washington and Tel Aviv face global revolt at 81st UN General Assembly
TEHRAN — The 81st United Nations General Assembly opened Tuesday under a cloud of unprecedented hostility toward the United States and Israel.
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2026-09-21 21:14
By staff writer
Impulsive German leader left in a quandary
TEHRAN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is being squeezed badly by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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2026-09-21 21:14
By staff writer
Ansarallah consolidates Red Sea control as Trump rejects MBS’ desperate appeals
TEHRAN — The Saudi campaign of aggression in Yemen is unraveling on the western coast. In a lightning offensive that swept through the coastal plain, Yemeni forces under Ansarallah command have captured the port city of Mokha, Mayyun Island, and strategic highlands in Lahij province.
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2026-09-21 21:12
By Ali Minabi
The security and economic gamble facing Iraq
TEHRAN – This withdrawal of U.S. forces is not like its predecessor in 2011, and comparisons drawn from earlier stages of the American-Iraqi relationship are of no use here.
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2026-09-20 20:33
Riyadh's vulnerability exposed: report
Saudi Arabia and the United States do not have a clear plan to fight back against the Yemeni Armed Force (YAF) who took control of a strategically important island on the Red Sea.
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2026-09-20 20:32
Ed Sheeran faces protests, desolate stage after opening acts walk out over Gaza genocide
TEHRAN — Dozens of demonstrators waving Palestinian flags converged outside Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday to confront a music industry built on complicity. Their signs carried blunt demands, telling Ed Sheeran and his promoters that concert revenue must no longer underwrite Israeli crimes.
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2026-09-20 20:32
Iran thwarted US, Israel change attempts: Hezbollah chief
Sheikh Qassem declares armed resistance the sole method to liberate occupied Palestinian
TEHRAN — Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem declared Saturday that the Islamic Republic of Iran has successfully defeated the core political objectives of the American-Israeli aggression launched against it earlier this year, proving that steadfastness can thwart imperialist war plans.