TEHRAN In 2025, Israel acted as a borderless war machine, unleashing over 10,631 military attacks across six nationsPalestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen, and Qatarwhile extending its brutality to maritime terrorism against aid ships in the waters of Malta, Greece, and Tunisia.

BEIRUTThe 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.

TEHRAN The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has confirmed that its armed wing spokesperson, Abu Obaida, and then Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar were martyred in Israels 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

THERAN The illusion of impenetrable security surrounding Benjamin Netanyahus 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.

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.

TEHRAN Chinas decision to impose countermeasures on U.S. military-linked companies and senior executives is neither impulsive nor symbolic. It is a calibrated response to Washingtons latest and most provocative escalation on the Taiwan question: an unprecedented $11.1 billion arms package to Chinas Taiwan region.

BEIRUTWhat 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.

A Palestinian woman was killed, and several family members were injured when a storm-damaged building wall collapsed onto a tent in Gaza Citys Al-Rimal neighborhood on Sunday, Anadolu reported.

TEHRAN - The official visit of Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on December 26, 2025, may at first glance be interpreted as a ceremonial bilateral engagement between two countries bound by longstanding and brotherly relations.

History will record this moment not as a triumph of civilization, but as its absolute moral collapse. In Gaza, more than70,000 innocent human beingsthe overwhelming majority women, mothers, pregnant women, and childrenhave been systematically annihilated. Their crime? Being born Palestinian. Their punishment? Death under rubble, starvation, and fire. And the world, with all its institutions, governments, and self-proclaimed guardians of humanity,stood by in silence.

BEIRUTIn the aftermath of Syrias prolonged conflict, the question facing the countrys Christian communities is no longer one of political alignment, but of survival itself.

Hundreds gathered in the rain and cold outside Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque in the Syrian city of Homs on Saturday to mourn the eight people killed in a bombing the day before in the predominantly Alawite Wadi al-Dhahab neighborhood.

More than 200 people, including women and children, were killed in ethnically motivated RSF attacks in parts of Darfur, the Sudan Doctors Network said, citing survivor testimonies from displacement camps near the SudanChad border.

Russia struck Kyiv with missiles and drones early Saturday, killing one and wounding 27, AP reported. Explosions hit energy and civilian infrastructure, leaving districts without power or heat.

Thailand and Cambodia signed a ceasefire on Saturday to end weeks of border fighting over territorial claims.

DEIR AL-BALAH - In the early days of the war on Gazain a time that can only be described as genocideI found myself trapped in emotions that defied language: disorientation, anxiety, fear, grief, and a pain so heavy it blurred reality itself.

TEHRAN The saga began three decades ago with an island. It was a place that for years served as a sanctuary for an assembly of the most renowned and powerful figures in the realms of politics, finance, art, technology, and even the scientific circles of the West, most notably from the United States.

BEIRUT Political and media discourse surrounding the abduction of former General Security officer Ahmad Shukr has intensified claims that he was forcibly taken into the occupied Palestinian territories.

TEHRAN UAE-backed separatists in southern Yemen accused Saudi Arabia on Friday of launching airstrikes against their forces in Hadramout province, allegations Riyadh has not confirmed amid rising tensions over recent territorial gains.

TEHRAN In the midst of historic global turmoil, an alarming spectacle is once again unfolding: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing for yet another visit to the United States to meet with President Donald Trump. This trip, which comes on the heels of multiple previous visits since Trumps return to the White House, is not a diplomatic milestone it is the latest chapter in a troubling alliance that undermines justice, fuels regional conflict, and exposes the United States as ..

TEHRAN A devastating explosion, described as a terrorist attack, tore through the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in Homs Wadi al-Dahab neighborhood during Friday prayers on December 26, killing at least eight worshippers and injuring dozens more.

TEHRAN - The Jeffrey Epstein affair has once again returned to the spotlightthis time not merely as a moral scandal, but as a political lever shaking the White House. The main concern at present is focused on Donald Trump and the MAGA movement within the Republican Party.

TEHRAN The United States carried out strikes in northwestern Nigeria on Christmas Day, nearly two months after President Donald Trump warned he might intervene militarily, accusing the West African nation of failing to stop attacks against Christian communities.