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2025-07-25 22:25
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon in the aftermath of Thomas Barrack’s visit
BEIRUT — Whenever he visits Lebanon, US envoy Thomas Barrack tries to expand the scope of his meetings with ministers and MPs, inciting them against Hezbollah.
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2025-07-25 22:23
By Wesam Bahrani
West Bank annexation push intensifies
TEHRAN – In a another yet troubling move and amid the ongoing Gaza genocide, the Israeli regime’s Knesset has overwhelmingly approved a motion of declaration to annex the occupied West Bank, signaling a renewed commitment to a colonialist and expansionist agenda.
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2025-07-23 22:24
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Barrack, the Don Quixote of US imperialism
BEIRUT — Colonialism was not merely a political and economic hegemony exercised by Western powers over large parts of the world. It was also a profound cultural and ideological plot intended to distort the history of colonized peoples, to fool them, and to impose deviant models of knowledge and values on them.
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2025-07-23 22:23
By Bahram Moradi
Trump has turned US into a rogue and pariah state
TEHRAN – The United States under the leadership of Donald Trump is almost at odds with all countries except Israel. The Trump administration is also defying established international institutions, such as UNESCO and the International Criminal Court.
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2025-07-22 21:59
By Sondoss Al Asaad
US envoy Barrack threatens Lebanon
There is no guarantee to release Lebanese detainees in Israeli prisons
BEIRUT—Since his first visit to Beirut, US envoy Thomas Barrack has repeatedly gone around in circles. He proposed an alleged American “solution,” to which Lebanon responded by affirming its commitment to UN Resolution 1701 and prioritizing halting Israeli aggression, withdrawing from the occupied territories, and releasing Lebanese prisoners.
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2025-07-22 21:56
By Wesam Bahrani
Swift Yemeni response after Israeli aggression
TEHRAN – Yemeni forces waged a series of attacks less than 24 hours after the Israeli occupation regime struck Hodeidah port.
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2025-07-22 21:54
By Shahrokh Saei
Starvation and slaughter: The only achievements of Israel’s war on Gaza
TEHRAN — More Palestinians have died from starvation in Gaza as Israel’s blockade of the besieged territory plunges it into an increasingly dire malnutrition crisis.
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2025-07-21 19:38
By Sondoss Al Asaad
US high commissioner in Beirut again: What's new?
BEIRUT — Amid the raging Syrian seditious events, the U.S. Special Envoy to Lebanon and Syria, Thomas Barrack, returned to Beirut three days early to review comments by American officials regarding initial response to his proposal regarding Hezbollah’s disarmament.
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2025-07-21 19:30
By Wesam Bahrani
Occupation soldiers evade capture
TEHRAN – The al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement, have released footage of a complex qualitative operation targeting an occupation armored personnel carrier with the objective of capturing several Israeli soldiers.
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2025-07-20 20:19
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Georges Abdallah set to arrive in Beirut this week
BEIRUT—After more than 40 years of arbitrary detention, a French court on Thursday ordered the conditional release of Lebanese leftist activist Georges Abdallah, 74, who is being held in France on alleged charges of assassinating an Israeli diplomat and an American in 1982.
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2025-07-20 20:17
By Shahrokh Saei
Israeli occupation and aggression stir Syrian popular resistance
TEHRAN — A tentative ceasefire appears to be holding in southern Syria after a brutal week marked by deadly clashes and escalating tensions. Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the truce on Saturday, yet the underlying realities on the ground reveal a much deeper and more troubling story.
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2025-07-20 20:12
By Batool Subeiti
Destructive chaos in Syria backfires
BEIRUT - There are growing signs that the current structure of the Syrian government no longer serves Western interests. By entering Sweida, the factions operating under the Syrian government forces have shown they cannot be reliably controlled.
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2025-07-19 21:24
By Shahrokh Saei
Truce or trap: Israel’s ceasefire in Syria signals deeper hegemonic agenda
TEHRAN — A newly announced ceasefire between Syria and Israel—brokered in the aftermath of an Israeli military escalation—has thrown into sharp relief the Tel Aviv regime’s relentless pursuit of regional dominance in West Asia.
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2025-07-19 21:22
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Security-judicial meeting in Beirut on Syrian prisoners
BEIRUT — Amid escalating pressure from the HTS–led regime to extradite Syrian prisoners from Lebanon, President Joseph Aoun held a second security meeting to address the issue.
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2025-07-19 21:21
By Wesam Bahrani
Al-Qassam signals shift in strategy
TEHRAN – Abu Ubaida’s speech marks a strategic pivot for Hamas. He emphasizes a focus on high-casualty operations and capturing occupation soldiers.
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2025-07-19 19:24
By Sahar Dadjoo
Legal front opens in Global South to challenge Israeli impunity
TEHRAN - A decisive shift is underway regarding the international community’s posture toward the Gaza crisis. A coalition of countries is moving beyond rhetoric to impose targeted sanctions on Israel.
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2025-07-19 16:25
By Sahar Dadjoo
Israel’s visa denials: A calculated strategy to undermine humanitarian oversight in Gaza
TEHRAN- Israel’s repeated refusal to renew visas for the heads of critical United Nations agencies operating in Gaza signals a disturbing and deliberate tactic to obstruct independent humanitarian oversight amid one of the world’s most protracted conflicts.
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2025-07-18 19:50
By Shahrokh Saei
Israel’s aggression in Syria fuels drive to ‘change the Middle East’
TEHRAN — The recent resurgence of violent clashes between Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes in Syria’s southern Suwayda province has once again been cynically exploited by Israel to justify its hostile interventions in the country.
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2025-07-18 19:49
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Syria’s bloody events: Dividing the divided
BEIRUT— Given the March horrific massacres on the Syrian coast and recently in Suwayda has it become legitimate to ask that partition is becoming a reality in Syria? The mosaic of partition is leading to the construction of de facto authorities that are separate and isolated from each other.
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2025-07-18 19:38
By Wesam Bahrani
Gaza church attack reflects genocide
TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime’s deadly shelling of Gaza’s Catholic church has sparked widespread condemnation.
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2025-07-16 22:27
By Shahrokh Saei
Israel’s raids on Syria spark widespread condemnation, spotlight expansionist ambitions
TEHRAN — Israel’s recent surge in military strikes against Syria has drawn fierce international condemnation, casting a harsh light on the regime’s dangerous designs on the Arab nation.
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2025-07-16 22:25
By Wesam Bahrani
Yemen hits “significant” Israeli targets
TEHRAN – Yemeni forces launch dual military operation targeting Negev and Eilat Port.
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2025-07-16 22:18
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Under US orders, Banque du Liban demonizes Al-Qard al-Hassan
BEIRUT — The Banque du Liban has announced banks and financial institutions subject to its license are prohibited from dealing with Al-Qard al-Hassan, Hezbollah’s solidarity association.
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2025-07-15 18:59
By Sahar Dadjoo
Sanctions, delegitimization, and resignations: The end of UN oversight in occupied Palestine
TEHRAN- The recent resignation of all members of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory epitomizes the fraught intersection of human rights accountability, geopolitical confrontation, and organizational challenges within the UN system.
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2025-07-15 18:58
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanese lawmakers question the cabinet over its policies
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Parliament held a session on Tuesday to ask questions to the government of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam about the ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon, the reconstruction of residential complexes, and the American threat to Lebanon’s sovereignty.
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2025-07-15 18:57
By Batool Subeiti
The Israeli occupation entity’s end is on horizon
LONDON - If the Israeli war on Iran had continued for just two more weeks, it would have been possible that all the occupation entity’s air defense systems would have been depleted as around 30 missiles would have fallen daily on the entity in specific locations, with massive destructive power.
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2025-07-14 21:59
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Geagea capitalizing on US envoy's threats that Syria may annex Lebanon
BEIRUT — Despite sparking widespread public and political outrage, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea was quick to justify the threats made by the US envoy to Lebanon, Thomas Barrack, regarding Lebanon’s “concession” to Syria and its inclusion as part of the Levant.
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2025-07-14 20:38
By Dr. Jin Liangxiang
A nation grows stronger in adversities
SHANGHAI - The last June witnessed one of the most flagrant aggressions against a sovereign nation state in its modern history and one of the largest military clashes in recent human history. National characters are always manifested in big events, and the following three, together with others, are particularly demonstrated in the 12-day war. A nation facing challenges, difficulties, and adversities could grow even stronger.
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2025-07-14 20:36
By Sahar Dadjoo
Suicides among Israeli soldiers expose systemic breakdown
TEHRAN - Since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023, the Israeli military has been grappling with a surge in suicides among soldiers.
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2025-07-14 20:28
By Wesam Bahrani
Dozens killed in sectarian violence in Syria
TEHRAN – At least 37 people have been killed in the latest wave of sectarian violence in the war-torn Syria.