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 Garsha Vazirian

Yellow line of death: Israeli strikes swallow Gaza wave by wave

TEHRAN – In the shadow of a supposed truce brokered under U.S. President Donald Trump's much-touted 20-point plan on October 10, Gaza remains a graveyard of shattered illusions.

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 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 Mona Hojat Ansari

Iran's active diplomacy despite West's bad faith

Araghchi arrives in Paris for discussions on regional issues, bilateral relations, and the nuclear challenge

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Paris on Wednesday, attempting diplomacy amidst a dangerously escalating crisis where his country and the wider region have been subjected to an unrelenting vise imposed by the West, fuelling a growing conviction across West Asia, after almost two years of failed diplomatic efforts, that a more heavy-handed response is required against the Europeans, the Americans, and their sponsored proxy, Israel.

Palestinian journalist in West Bank tortured over 110 days in Israeli prison

Farah Abu Ayyash, a Palestinian journalist working with Iran’s Tasnim news agency, has revealed the torture and mistreatment she endured during more than 110 days in Israeli custody.

By Wesam Bahrani 

Shattered livelihoods: Gaza’s silent crisis

TEHRAN – A new UN report warns Gaza’s destruction has pushed its society and economy to the brink, leaving recovery painfully distant.

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 Shahrokh Saei 

Baited with bread, butchered by bullets 

TEHRAN – The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial U.S. and Israeli-backed aid scheme that sidelined the UN and used armed American contractors, was permanently shut down on November 24.