TEHRAN Yuram Abdullah Weiler, an engineer-turned political analyst, argues that U.S. President Donald Trumps intense pressure on Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro stems from a desire to dominate the country and secure access to its vast oil reserves, which surpass those of Saudi Arabia.

BEIRUT Lebanon has always lived in the crossfire of regional conflicts, but rarely has its digital sovereignty been placed so casually on the negotiating table.

TEHRAN- It was a warning to Manila, Dhaka, Lagos, and the entire global South, where extractive capitalism has transformed ecosystems into sacrifice zones.

Attempts to pursue Taiwan independence mean splitting China's territory, and supporting Taiwan independence amounts to interference in China's internal affairs, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Beijing on Monday.

As winter chills New Delhi, Russian President Vladimir Putin swept into the Indian capital for a two-day state visit on December 45, stirring warm excitement and euphoria after a four-year gap since his last trip in December 2021. Scathing Western sanctions, oppressive tariff threats by Washington to trade partners, even an arrest warrant, havent stopped him from rolling back into one of Russias closest mates.

Russian President Vladimir Putins visit to New Delhi on 45 December 2025 should be viewed as one of the defining geopolitical moments in Eurasia over the past decadean event that transcends the traditional contours of the MoscowNew Delhi relationship and is best understood as part of a broader realignment in the regional balance of power.

At least six Pakistani soldiers were killed in militant attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a northwestern province bordering Afghanistan, Anadolu reported Tuesday, citing local police.

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has been removed from consideration to lead U.S. President Donald Trumps proposed board of peace in Gaza, the Financial Times revealed, following objections raised by several Arab and Muslim states.

Fighting between Cambodia and Thailand escalated along their contested border on Tuesday, according to Reuters, as the Southeast Asian neighbors both said they would not back down in defending their sovereignty.

BEIRUTLebanons political and security landscape has long been defined by a paradox: the nations true defenders often operate outside formal institutions, while the official state struggles to assert authority, maintain sovereignty, or protect its people.

TEHRAN They built the room together. America paid for the walls, the fake grass carpet, and the giant posters of Trumps twenty-point plan. America flew in the logisticians who know how to move rice through war zones. America even invited a few Dutch and Emirati officers to keep up the pretense of multilateralism.

TEHRAN On December 8, 2024, Syria entered a new phase when Damascus fell, and the Ba'ath Partys long rule ended. Bashar al-Assad departed for Russia, where he was granted asylum. For many Syrians, Assads exit was neither a moment of triumph nor defeat, but the beginning of a new uncertainty. The vacuum left behind opened the door for forces both domestic and foreign to shape Syrias trajectory.

European Council President Antnio Costa said on Monday that the United States should "not threaten to interfere in the democratic life" of its European allies, Politico reported.

Nigerias military sent fighter jets and ground forces into neighboring Benin to support President Patrice Talon, after a group of soldiers attempted to seize control of the tiny West African nation, Bloomberg reported Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly held a clandestine meeting with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss a new foreign-administered framework for governing the Gaza Strip, Al Mayadeen reported Monday, citing the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN).

More than 100 people, including dozens of children, were killed in attacks on a kindergarten in Sudan that continued even as parents and caretakers rushed the wounded to a nearby hospital, Reuters reported Monday, citing the World Health Organization.

Thailand said it launched airstrikes into Cambodia on Monday as fighting broke out in multiple areas along their disputed border, Reuters reported, after both countries accused the other of breaching a ceasefire brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump.

TEHRAN - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Israel for the first time since taking office in May. Merzs visit comes just days after Germany decided to lift a three-monthsuspensionon arms exports to Israel.

BEIRUT Lets try, for a moment, to imagine a Lebanon where words mean what they say. In that alternate universe, neutrality would imply rejecting foreign meddling of any kind, interference would refer to bombing residential areas, and sovereignty might include the radical notion of objecting to drones overhead.

TEHRAN When U.S. forces began striking vessels in the Caribbean in early September, Washington said it was fighting drug cartels. Yet almost 90 people have been killed, no narcotics have been shown as evidence, and the scale of deployment, including the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group, makes clear this is not a routine mission.

A coup that was announced in Benin on Sunday has been foiled, AP reported, citing the countrys interior minister.

The spiritual leader of the Alawite religious minority in Syria, Ghazal Ghazal, has called for a strike against the administration of Ahmad al-Sharaa (Abu Muhammad al-Jolani), one day ahead of the first anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assads government, The Cradle reported Sunday.

TEHRAN The Palestinian resistance in Gaza faces a precarious period between flimsy ceasefires and ongoing aggression.

TEHRAN In another operation in its cyber campaign against Israels military establishment, the pro-Palestine hacking collective Handala has published the detailed identities of what it calls the main architects of the Iron Dome missile defense system.

TEHRAN The second Trump administration has released a 33-page National Security Strategy document, unveiled under the America First banner and centered on redefining Washingtons role in the world.

Hamas said Saturday it was ready to hand over its weapons in the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian authority governing the territory on the condition that the Israeli army's occupation ends, AFP reported Saturday.

TEHRAN Paul Pillar, a former CIA officer and now a senior fellow at Georgetown Universitys Center for Security Studies, tells the Tehran Times that the Pentagons attacks on Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean, carried out under the claim that they are trafficking drugs to the United States, reflect President Donald Trumps return to the gunboat diplomacy of the 1920s and 1930s, when U.S. military forces intervened in several Latin American countries.

GOA, India - Six months have passed since Venezuela concluded its national elections, yet Western capitals continue to behave as though the ballots were still being counted. Their critiques, statements, and carefully staged condemnations have not diminished; if anything, they have intensified.

BEIRUTNo contradiction in Lebanese politics is more glaring than the desire of the Lebanese Forces (LF) to see the Israeli enemy resolve their political dispute inside Lebanon. A party that claims to defend state sovereignty routinely seeks foreign intervention against a Lebanese actor with a proven popular and national base.