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Today 19:34
By Garsha Vazirian
The anatomy of a broken Syria and the mirage of sovereignty
How al-Sharaa has failed to secure Syria against relentless Israeli aggression and internal rot
TEHRAN – More than a year after the collapse of the al-Assad government in December 2024, the “New Syria” has proved to be a cruel mirage.
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Today 19:33
By Shahrokh Saei
Peace on paper, fire on the ground: Trump’s seven-nation strikes in 2025
TEHRAN – Since returning to the White House in January 2025, Donald Trump has tried to cast himself as a peacemaker, insisting that his second term has brought an end to conflicts that long tied down the United States abroad. He has spoken of breaking with what he calls America’s era of “endless wars,” presenting his foreign policy as restraint, not intervention.
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Today 18:36
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon in 2025: A nation adrift in chaos and defiance
BEIRUT —2025 offered no respite for Lebanon. Fleeting moments of calm only exposed deeper rot gnawing at the state’s foundations. Institutions crumble under chronic mismanagement, while political forces wallow in disarray.
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Today 18:33
The UAE-backed STC remains defiant
Saudi Arabia discloses details of Yemen bombing
Saudi Arabia has released more details on the coalition bombing of the Yemeni port of Mukalla, which has triggered tensions with the United Arab Emirates, its Arab ally and neighbor, and prompted the latter to say it will withdraw its forces from Yemen.
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Today 18:29
'Humanitarian situation in Gaza is catastrophic'
Winter intensifies crisis as 10 nations warn of worsening Gaza blockade
Foreign ministers from ten nations have voiced alarm over the sharp deterioration of humanitarian conditions in Gaza, warning that the situation has reached “catastrophic” levels.
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Today 11:26
By Ranjan Solomon
Venezuela, Russia, and the return of nuclear signaling
How a distant crisis exposes the fractures of the global order
GOA - At a time when global discourse is saturated with managed outrage and selective morality, certain crises are rendered invisible not because they lack consequence, but because they expose uncomfortable truths about power. Venezuela is one such crisis. Rarely discussed beyond caricatures of authoritarianism or economic failure, it has now re-entered the global stage in a far more unsettling form — as a strategic fault line in an intensifying confrontation between imperial persistence and geopolitical resistance.
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Yesterday 19:32
Israel to suspend over two dozen aid groups in Gaza starting January 1
Israel said it plans to suspend over two dozen humanitarian organizations working in Gaza, for allegedly failing to comply with Tel Aviv’s new vetting rules on staff, funding, and operations, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), effective January 1, 2026.
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Yesterday 18:52
Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first female prime minister, dies at 80
TEHRAN — Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first female prime minister and a central figure in the nation’s politics for more than three decades, passed away on Tuesday at a hospital in Dhaka. She was believed to be 80. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which she led, confirmed her death without disclosing a cause.
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Yesterday 18:46
By staff writer
Saudi ‘red line’ and UAE’s adventurism in Yemen
TEHRAN – Saudi Arabia has framed its national security as a “red line,” warning it will act decisively against any foreign military support for separatist groups in Yemen.
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Yesterday 18:44
Somalia unites against Israel’s Somaliland recognition amid global backlash
TEHRAN – Israel’s unilateral recognition of Somaliland as an independent state has ignited outrage across Somalia and beyond, with furious protests denouncing the move as a dangerous violation of international law and a direct assault on Somali sovereignty. The announcement, made on December 26, marked the first time any country has formally recognized Somaliland, a breakaway region that declared independence in 1991 but has remained internationally unacknowledged.
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Yesterday 18:40
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Detention of Jordanian journalist Mohammad Faraj and erosion of free expression
BEIRUT—As 2025 draws to a close, the continued detention of Jordanian journalist and political writer Mohammad Faraj remains unresolved and deeply troubling.
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Yesterday 18:36
Thailand delays repatriation of captured Cambodian soldiers, alleges ceasefire violations
Thailand is delaying the release of 18 Cambodian soldiers captured in July, postponing a decision expected Tuesday amid accusations that Cambodia breached a new ceasefire, Bloomberg reported.
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Yesterday 16:11
US conducts 30th lethal strike on alleged ‘drug vessel’
The U.S. military said Monday it killed two alleged “drug smugglers” in a boat strike in the eastern Pacific, but—as with 30 similar attacks—offered no verifiable evidence.
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Yesterday 16:10
Gaza endures new Israeli strikes eighty-one days into ‘ceasefire’
Eighty-one days after the Gaza “ceasefire,” Israeli forces continue assaults, striking al-Maghazi Camp, Beit Lahia, and southern areas, detonating an armored vehicle, and demolishing homes in Gaza City.
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Yesterday 15:25
UN team depicts Sudan's el-Fasher as a largely deserted crime scene
A United Nations team has described Sudan’s el-Fasher as a “crime scene” after gaining access for the first time since its October takeover by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Al Jazeera reported Tuesday.
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2025-12-29 20:21
By Garsha Vazirian
Six countries, three seas, one voracious war machine
A year of Tel Aviv’s fear doctrine—sovereignty dismantled across six nations, maritime terror targeting humanitarian aid
TEHRAN – In 2025, Israel acted as a borderless war machine, unleashing over 10,631 military attacks across six nations—Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen, and Qatar—while extending its brutality to maritime terrorism against aid ships in the waters of Malta, Greece, and Tunisia.
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2025-12-29 19:47
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Yemen and mirage of Somaliland: Sovereignty, deterrence, and battle over the Red Sea
BEIRUT—The renewed focus on the so-called “Somaliland” is not an isolated African issue but a deliberate geopolitical maneuver tied to the security of the Red Sea and the balance of power in West Asia.
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2025-12-29 19:44
By staff writer
Al-Houthi’s warning: A red line for Israel in Somaliland
TEHRAN – The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah has declared that any Israeli presence in Somaliland will be treated as a “military target,” framing Israel’s recent recognition of the breakaway region as an act of aggression against Somalia, Yemen, and the wider Red Sea corridor. Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s remarks underscore the seriousness with which Yemen’s resistance movement views Tel Aviv’s latest geopolitical maneuver, and highlight the broader struggle over sovereignty and control in one of the world’s most strategic maritime zones.
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2025-12-29 19:19
By staff writer
The masked voice lives on: Abu Obaida and Gaza’s unyielding resistance
TEHRAN – The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has confirmed that its armed wing spokesperson, Abu Obaida, and then Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar were martyred in Israel’s genocidal war earlier this year. The announcement came in a prerecorded address by the newly appointed spokesman of the Izz al Din al Qassam Brigades, who vowed that the blood of the martyrs would only strengthen the resolve of the resistance.
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2025-12-29 16:40
Heavy rain and fierce winds uproot Gaza tents, forcing families into the cold
Heavy rain and strong winds flooded and uprooted tents in the Gaza Strip on Monday, worsening already dire living conditions for Palestinians after two years of Israeli genocide.
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2025-12-29 14:23
Israel has committed nearly 1,000 ceasefire violations in Gaza since October 10
Gaza officials report that 418 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli ceasefire violations since the truce began on October 10.
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2025-12-29 14:14
China launches military drills around Taiwan
Multiple forces of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) started drills code-named "Justice Mission 2025" around Taiwan Island Monday, said Shi Yi, spokesperson for the theater command, Xinhua reported on Monday.
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2025-12-28 20:52
Batool Subeiti
When negotiation is unavoidable: Strategies of engagement and resistance
LONDON - Lebanon's government is under severe pressure. It is in a phase of accommodating imposed American demands, within the limits of what it is capable of achieving. Accommodating the American demands is one of the rare skills that Lebanon happens to master. The Lebanese state does not aim to benefit from the latent capabilities the resistance presents.
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2025-12-28 20:33
By Sim Zahra, researcher
The weakness of the world in our struggle
TORONTO - When the world fails to uphold justice, it becomes an obligation of the oppressed to fulfil it. Demanding rights and justice from a world that has turned a blind eye to a genocide that has been occurring for over 70 years, and is now at its worst state, is a meaningless endeavor.
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2025-12-28 20:02
Major hack exposes Netanyahu’s chief aide in corruption scandal
Bibi’s ‘gatekeeper’ exposed: Handala releases files tied to Qatargate
THERAN – The illusion of impenetrable security surrounding Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration has been shattered once again, revealing what cyber resistance group Handala called the “rotten core of power” festering within Israel in a statement on its website on Sunday.
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2025-12-28 19:44
Hezbollah leader rejects foreign-backed disarmament drive as tool for Israeli annexation
TEHRAN – In an address marking the memorial of founding leader Haj Mohammad “Abu Salim” Yaghi, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem declared that the foreign-backed push to disarm the Resistance is a “Zionist-American project” intended to annex parts of Lebanon and reduce the remainder to a tool of Western hegemony.
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2025-12-28 19:28
By Shahrokh Saei
Fanning the flames: How US arms sales destabilize Taiwan and violate China’s sovereignty
TEHRAN – China’s decision to impose countermeasures on U.S. military-linked companies and senior executives is neither impulsive nor symbolic. It is a calibrated response to Washington’s latest and most provocative escalation on the Taiwan question: an unprecedented $11.1 billion arms package to China’s Taiwan region.
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2025-12-28 18:52
By Sondoss Al Asaad
How a technical committee has turned into a strategic threat to Lebanon
BEIRUT—What was introduced after the November 27, 2024 ceasefire as a purely technical arrangement has gradually evolved into a mechanism with political and security implications that extend far beyond its stated purpose.
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2025-12-28 18:48
By staff writer
Is the UAE sailing Israel’s ship in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea?
TEHRAN – The United Arab Emirates has long sought to project itself as a modern, pragmatic power, striking a balance between economic dynamism and regional influence. Yet its deepening partnership with Israel reveals a trajectory that is less about stability and more about embedding Israeli interests into fragile states. From southern Yemen to Somaliland and Sudan, Abu Dhabi’s actions increasingly resemble those of a proxy, enabling Israel’s ambitions in one of the world’s most sensitive maritime corridors.
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2025-12-28 17:37
Woman killed in Gaza as bombed wall collapses on tent amid storm
A Palestinian woman was killed, and several family members were injured when a storm-damaged building wall collapsed onto a tent in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood on Sunday, Anadolu reported.