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Yesterday 19:58
By Garsha Vazirian
Israel’s forced retreat marketed as ‘victory’
When ‘winning’ becomes losing ground — legally, diplomatically, and morally
TEHRAN – “Israel has won all they can by force of arms. You’ve won. I mean, you’ve won.”
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Yesterday 19:31
By Shahrokh Saei
Pakistan–Afghanistan conflict: U.S. maneuvering vs. China’s mediation
TEHRAN – The recent border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan underscore the fragility of South Asia’s security environment.
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Yesterday 19:26
By Salman Parviz
Economic incentives for peace and stability in Afghanistan
TEHRAN – After a fragile 48-hour ceasefire between Pakistan and Afghanistan expired on Friday evening both sides decided to extend the truce until the conclusion of talks in the Qatari capital of Doha.
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2025-10-17 18:20
By Shahab Sarmadi
Hamas takes on Israel’s mercenaries in Gaza
TEHRAN – More than a week after the October 10 ceasefire, Gaza continues to face sustained military pressure, with Palestinians remaining under severe threat from Israel’s ongoing operations. Although Israeli forces have partially withdrawn from some residential areas in central Gaza, local armed groups, linked to Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, continue to target resistance fighters and civilians alike. These actions undermine prospects for lasting peace and highlight Israel’s continued efforts to destabilize Gaza from within.
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2025-10-17 18:12
By Wesam Bahrani
Hamas rejects international custodianship
TEHRAN – The head of Hamas’s Prisoners and Martyrs Office has rejected any plans to establish international governance in Gaza.
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2025-10-17 18:08
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Israel seeking to turn South Lebanon into a de facto buffer zone
Lebanon facing environmental, cultural, and military assaults
BEIRUT—Lebanon is experiencing a complex moment, facing continuous Israeli bombardment, severe political divisions, and increasing economic and diplomatic pressures.
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2025/10/15
By Batool Subeiti
Victory for Gaza and the Axis of Resistance
LONDON - It seems this round of war in Gaza has come to an end. Standing firm in position, refusing to be broken, and moving the struggle to a different stage is the measure of victory or defeat for the resistance parties.
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2025-10-15 19:59
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon between Israeli aggression and international pressure
BEIRUT — Over the past few months, Lebanon has witnessed repeated Israeli air raids targeting economic infrastructure in the South and Bekaa, including bulldozers and excavators.
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2025-10-15 19:58
By Wesam Bahrani
Israel killing civilians despite Gaza truce
TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime has killed Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip despite agreeing to a ceasefire.
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2025/10/14
By Garsha Vazirian
Paper peace: Sharm el-Sheikh’s fragile promise to Gaza
How Gaza’s demands go unanswered
TEHRAN — The October 13 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, played out as choreographed pageantry: leaders posed, a ceasefire was hailed, and promises of reconstruction were laid out — alongside a round of ungainly flattery for Trump that blurred diplomacy with theater.
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2025-10-14 19:50
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Shutdown of “Whish Money” accounts is another phase of financial blockade on Lebanon
BEIRUT—Lebanon has been witnessing an escalating financial blockade for weeks after Whish Money (a local money transfer company) closed the accounts of associations and activists supporting reconstruction projects.
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2025-10-14 19:28
By Wesam Bahrani
Israel destroyed Christian presence in Palestine
TEHRAN – The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine has stated that the Israeli occupation regime has destroyed the Christian presence in Palestine.
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2025-10-13 22:11
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon between Gaza truce and fiery messages
An upcoming confrontation or a moment of repositioning!
BEIRUT—West Asia is entering a pivotal stage following the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip brokered by US President Donald Trump. However, what appears to be the end of a bloody phase in the Strip opens the door to a highly sensitive phase for Lebanon.
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2025-10-13 21:59
By Wesam Bahrani
Concessions, not military force, help free Israeli captives
TEHRAN – The Palestinian resistance movement said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his occupation army failed for two years to free its captives through military means and ultimately had to accept the resistance’s terms, acknowledging that the only path to their captives’ return was through a prisoner exchange and an end to the war of extermination.
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2025-10-13 21:45
By Garsha Vazirian
A Victim of the Banality of Evil
Saleh al-Jaafarawi: Who he was, and why Israel silenced his voice in Gaza
TEHRAN – Hannah Arendt’s phrase “the banality of evil” describes the terrible ordinariness of a system that makes atrocity routine. In Gaza this October, the phrase revealed itself in flesh and blood.
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2025-10-12 20:11
By Garsha Vazirian
Echoes of the Durand Line: Afghanistan and Pakistan at a crossroads
Old borders, new battles, and escalating mistrust
TEHRAN – On the night of October 9, explosions in Kabul — widely reported as strikes aimed at Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) figures — triggered a rapid chain of violence that by 11–12 October had become the sharpest Afghanistan–Pakistan confrontation in years.
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2025-10-12 20:10
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Hezbollah organizes a massive scout gathering
BEIRUT — Hezbollah commemorated on Sunday the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Imam Mahdi Scouts at the Camille Chamoun Sports City.
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2025-10-12 19:54
By Sahar Dadjoo
Exclusive: Israel’s military failures forced partial withdrawal from Gaza, Aleef Sabbagh says
Senior Palestinian analyst highlights Netanyahu’s inability to defeat Hamas or relocate Gaza’s population
TEHRAN- Following two years of devastating war and unprecedented human suffering in Gaza, Hamas and Israel accepted a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on October 9 under Donald Trump’s controversial 20-point plan. While the agreement temporarily halts Israel’s military operations and paves the way for prisoner exchange and phased withdrawals, analysts warn that it leaves unresolved the root causes of the conflict and may only postpone another round of violence.
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2025-10-11 22:06
By Wesam Bahrani
Driven by Venezuela’s oil riches, Trump intensifies clash with Maduro government
TEHRAN – Tensions between Caracas and Washington are mounting amid the White House’s continued push for regime change in Venezuela.
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2025-10-11 22:04
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon foils high-risk Israeli terror operation in major security success
BEIRUT — Amid the escalating challenges facing Lebanon, the General Directorate of General Security’s announcement of the dismantling of a foreign-run spy network working for the Israeli enemy marked a significant step.
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2025/10/11
By Garsha Vazirian
Gaza truce’s fault lines: Disarmament, sovereignty, and power
TEHRAN – As tens of thousands of Palestinians returned to northern Gaza on Friday, the fragile relief of the ceasefire was burdened by political ultimatums—a reminder that even a pause in violence cannot erase the deeper struggle over power and sovereignty.
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2025-10-10 21:08
By Garsha Vazirian
Bloodied hands, misplaced laurels: Why neither Trump nor Machado deserves praise
Sponsoring war, sanctions, and regime change is not a résumé for peace
TEHRAN – In a move that pleased Washington’s propaganda machinery, the Norwegian Nobel Committee chose Venezuelan opponent María Corina Machado over a president who spent months begging for a medal.
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2025-10-10 21:07
By Sahar Dadjoo
Gaza breathes
Displaced Gazans start returning to the north amid uncertain peace
TEHRAN - After two harrowing years of conflict that devastated Gaza and shook the Middle East, a tentative ceasefire has been announced, outlining a phased military withdrawal from the coastal enclave and promising the release of captives and Palestinian prisoners.
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2025-10-10 20:45
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Imam Mahdi scouts: A model of construction and resistance in a time of political impotence
BEIRUT—Beirut is preparing to host the largest scout gathering in Lebanon’s history, marking the fortieth anniversary of the founding of Hezbollah’s Imam Mahdi Scouts Association, amid the martyrdom anniversary of Hezbollah secretaries-general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine.
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2025/10/08
By Garsha Vazirian
You can’t unring the bell: The Israeli offensive that lost its grip
When genocide went viral and propaganda struggled to hold sway
TEHRAN — Picture a hush in a room. A nervous voice leans into a mic and admits what everyone has felt: “We have a major, major, major generational problem.” That leaked fragment was less an accusation than a diagnosis: the old pipelines of influence were cracking as short, brutal images poured into young people’s feeds.
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2025-10-08 17:52
By Shahab Sarmadi
Israel’s interception of Gaza aid flotillas sparks global outcry
TEHRAN – Israel’s back-to-back interceptions of two international aid flotillas bound for Gaza have provoked a surge of global condemnation and legal scrutiny, casting renewed light on the blockade of the Palestinian enclave. The seizures — carried out in international waters — targeted the Global Sumud Flotilla a week ago, and the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) on Wednesday, including its lead vessel The Conscience.
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2025-10-08 17:26
By Sondos Al-Asaad
Why did Hezbollah enter the war to support Gaza?
BEIRUT — Hezbollah entered the war in support of Gaza within a broader, cumulative context that went beyond political fervor or fleeting emotion.
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2025-10-07 20:28
By Garsha Vazirian
‘Unprecedented Arab abandonment:’ What Hamas means, and why Gaza calls it betrayal
TEHRAN – On the second anniversary of October 7’s Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, Hamas issued a statement that landed like a verdict, denouncing what it called “shameful international silence and complicity, and unprecedented Arab abandonment.”
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2025-10-07 20:27
Mehr Media Group hosts roundtable on Gaza ceasefire and Palestinian future
TEHRAN – The Mehr Media Group convened a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the Palestinian issue on the second anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, Hamas’ surprise military operation in southern Israel that reshaped regional dynamics and highlighted Gaza’s plight.
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2025/10/07
By Salman Parviz
Long standing China-U.S. rivalry
TEHRAN – The United States and China have one of the world’s most and complex historical relationship. Since 1949, the countries have experienced period of both tension and cooperation over issues like trade, climate change, and Taiwan.