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Yesterday 21:12
By Batool Subeiti
The constants and variables in the political dynamics of West Asia
LONDON — The policy of the West Asia region is drawn based on political dynamics. These are either constants that are not subject to change or variables. This is especially with regard to the political situation in Lebanon and Syria, and the regional or international sponsorship of political directions.
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Yesterday 21:11
Israel escalates strikes and ground raids across Syria
TEHRAN — Israel has intensified its assault on Syrian sovereignty, unleashing a coordinated campaign of drone strikes, artillery barrages, and ground invasions.
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Yesterday 21:11
By staff writer
Israeli troops kill father of martyrs in Jenin; settlers murder teenager near Hebron
TEHRAN — Israeli forces and armed settler groups launched a synchronized wave of violence across the occupied West Bank on August 21 and 22. The raids stretched from Jenin to Hebron. Palestinian communities face an accelerating campaign of territorial conquest and lethal force.
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Yesterday 21:10
By Ali Minabi
What follows Kushner’s meetings with al-Hayya and Netanyahu?
TEHRAN – Gaza remains caught between Israeli intransigence and electoral calculations, U.S. pressure, and Palestinian efforts to preserve the agreement. This is keeping the region in a state of neither war nor peace until the outcome of the upcoming elections becomes clear.
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2026-08-21 19:41
Israeli forces burn homes, erase southern Lebanese villages
TEHRAN — For the fifth consecutive night, Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded southern Lebanon in a relentless campaign of territorial erasure. On Friday morning, Israeli forces directed heavy machine gun fire at Touline and Wadi Al-Hujeir. Troops systematically detonated the homes of displaced families in Haddatha and Beit Yahoun.
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2026-08-21 19:41
Israel is burying two-state solution with settlement plan that divides West Bank
TEHRAN – The Israeli regime advanced an internationally condemned settlement plan in the occupied West Bank that could split the territory and “bury” the possibility of a two-state solution.
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2026-08-19 11:49
"Surrender is not an easy option for Iran, and that's something Washington never understood"
Indian Historian, Vijay Prashad, says the US-Israeli war against Iran was built on repeated miscalculations, failed to break Tehran's resolve, and instead accelerated a regional realignment isolating Washington.
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2026-08-18 20:43
Despite al-Jolani’s appeasement, Israel strikes Syrian airfield, warning Ankara
TEHRAN — Israeli jets pounded the Abu al-Duhur military airbase in eastern Idlib early Tuesday. Eight consecutive strikes cratered the runway and obliterated storage facilities.
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2026-08-18 20:21
By Sahar Dadjoo
Iran shifted the debate from its nuclear program to the Strait of Hormuz: Indian analyst
Vijay Prashad says decades of resistance defined Iran's response, a pattern US failed to anticipate
TEHRAN – Months after the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, its consequences are still being weighed: a war that may have exposed the limits of American power rather than confirmed it, and one that appears to have accelerated the very regional realignment it was meant to prevent.
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2026-08-17 22:00
Iran demands global tribunals after Ben-Gvir urges daily slaughter quota in Gaza
TEHRAN — The horrifying proposal to institutionalize the slaughter of Palestinians has ripped away any remaining diplomatic veneer shielding Israel.
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2026-08-17 21:41
By Seyed Yaser Ziaee
Legal status of Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement under international law
The legal status of paramilitary organizations varies across domestic legal systems. This commentary seeks to examine the legitimacy and lawfulness of resistance movements, focusing on the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement’s status within the Arab country’s legal and political order.
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2026-08-17 20:03
By staff writer
Israel expands assaults across Lebanon’s Jabal Amel despite US mediation claims
TEHRAN — The Israeli military unleashed a large wave of violence across southern Lebanon on Monday. According to reports from local media, drones dropped explosives on the Ali al-Taher heights. Artillery batteries pounded Mansouri, Shihin, and Wadi al-Salouqi. Two artillery shells struck the terrain between Zebqin and Yater. A reconnaissance drone dropped a sound bomb on Haddatha, followed by intense machine gun fire directed at local residents.
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2026-08-17 16:36
By Afshin Majlesi
Tehran municipality official highlights restoration of war-damaged heritage sites
TEHRAN – Ali Shamsipour, head of the Urban Research and Planning Center of Tehran Municipality, has highlighted plans and ongoing efforts to restore heritage sites damaged during the recent war involving the United States and the Israeli regime.
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2026-08-16 20:40
Iran’s armed forces vow no retreat until ‘complete defeat’ of US and Israel
TEHRAN- The General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces has vowed to continue confronting the United States and Israel until the “complete defeat” of its adversaries and the fulfillment of the Iranian people’s legitimate demands.
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2026-08-16 19:04
By Xavier Villar
Was Israel behind the Ceuta crisis?
MADRID - The hybrid warfare episode recently endured by Spain, characterized by the mass entry of over 600,000 individuals, primarily from Morocco, is transitioning from political speculation to documented geopolitical reality. Early hypotheses suggesting the orchestration of this crisis by Israeli and United States intelligence are increasingly substantiated by concrete evidence and structural analysis.
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2026-08-16 18:39
Lebanese-Israeli-US talks intended to undermine US-Iran MOU: professor
Bard College professor Ziad Abu Rish says Lebanese officials have put ‘all their eggs in US-Israeli basket’
TEHRAN - The Lebanese government has been left at the “mercy” of the US and Israel after signing on to the Washington-brokered framework agreement, argues Ziad Abu Rish, an associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Bard College in New York.
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2026-08-14 20:54
By Garsha Vazirian
‘Food Truck One,’ expandable decoys, and the propaganda ruin
TEHRAN — The official narrative survived for a month. It portrayed an American president boarding Air Force One on July 8 following a NATO summit in Ankara, waving to the cameras, and flying west. The reality was far more humiliating.
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2026-08-10 21:57
Former minister: US, Israel have lost their aura of invincibility
TEHRAN — The United States and Israel have lost their aura and myth of invincibility, Iranian official Hossein Dehghan said, arguing that the recent war had demonstrated the limits of Washington and its allies in providing security for themselves or others.
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2026-08-09 21:04
Israel rejects Gaza peace plan as Netanyahu, facing elections, digs in for continued war
Gazans now feel more uncertain as nobody talks about Justice for Palestinians
As Netanyahu demands ‘genuine’ Hamas disarmament before considering pull-out from Gaza, a look at what happens next.
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2026-08-09 21:02
By Batool Subeiti
The war united the nation in defending Iran
LONDON — Relying on divisions within Iran to bring about a coup against the system is merely an illusion. The war against Iran united the people's position more than ever. Before the war, the vertical division was based on the impact of the sanctions on the economic situation, which potentially led to great inflation.
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2026-08-09 21:00
By Garsha Vazirian
The sealed watermelon of the Mecca Agreement
TEHRAN — Three leaders signed a promise inside Al-Safa Palace on Friday: an armed attack on Saudi Arabia, Turkey or Pakistan will be treated as an attack on all three. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan compared the clause to NATO’s Article 5. The full text stays sealed, unread outside the rooms where it was drafted. Persian has a phrase for exactly this situation: a watermelon still in its rind, “Hendevaneh-ye dar basteh.”
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2026-08-07 21:00
Israel expands West Bank offensive with camp-by-camp strategy
TEHRAN — Israeli troops pulled out of the Qalandia refugee camp north of occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem) late Thursday after a brutal two-day assault that left 51 Palestinians injured and more than 60 detained, yet the withdrawal brought no relief. The machinery simply pivoted elsewhere.
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2026-08-05 20:55
By Garsha Vazirian
The Board of Peace is bored of peace and hungry for conquest
The US sells illusions while Israel kills Gazans, expands occupation lines
TEHRAN — On July 30, Donald Trump announced that the Board of Peace had reached "a historic agreement" for "the complete disarmament of Hamas." The White House called it a monumental step, even as neither Israel nor Hamas had given an immediate indication of full alignment.
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2026-08-05 20:45
By staff writer
Surveillance of Sciences Po students critical of Israel shows free speech rings hollow in France
TEHRAN - Rightly or wrongly, common people once praised France as the most democratic county in the West. They claimed it valued the right to protest and was tolerant of freedom of speech or opinion. However, that designation, has proven hollow.
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2026-08-04 21:06
Farhad Pashavand, West Asia expert
Gradual attrition: The cornerstone of the new US strategy against Hezbollah
TEHRAN — The plan currently being discussed in American and Israeli strategic circles regarding Lebanon is not merely a security initiative aimed at containing an armed actor; rather, it forms part of a multilayered strategy to reshape the balance of power in the country.
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2026-08-04 21:05
Families bury 112 recovered three years after Israeli strikes on Gaza
Palestinians on Tuesday buried 112 members of a single clan martyred in Israeli air strikes in November 2023, after their remains were recovered from beneath the rubble last month.
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2026-08-02 21:12
Hamas disarmament efforts are doomed to fail, IRGC says
TEHRAN — Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) declared that any effort to disarm Hamas is "doomed to fail," while reaffirming that retaliation for the killings of Ismail Haniyeh and the "martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution" remains inevitable.
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2026-08-02 20:43
Five Lebanese soldiers wounded in southern town blast amid ongoing Israeli aggression
TEHRAN — Five Lebanese army soldiers were injured on Sunday when a suspicious explosive device detonated in the southern town of Kafra as their military vehicle escorted local residents through the volatile Bint Jbeil district, according to a statement by the Lebanese army.
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2026-08-01 21:17
By Garsha Vazirian
Another coalition meets its grave in the Red Sea
Saudi Arabia’s new coalition against Yemen is doomed to failure because Riyadh does not learn from past experiences
TEHRAN — On a stifling afternoon, the Saudi defense ministry rolled out the red carpet for delegates from 43 nations, eager to announce a grand diplomatic and military recovery. Merely 13 governments and the Saudi-backed regime in Aden signed on the dotted line to back the newly minted “multinational maritime defense coalition.”
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2026-08-01 19:35
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
The grave Saudi-US mistake in attacking PMF positions in Iraq
TEHRAN -The joint US-Saudi aerial aggression against Iraqi territory, launched in the early hours of Wednesday, marks not a display of strength but a profound strategic miscalculation. It underscores the unraveling of American military credibility and the steady ascent of Iranian power across the region.