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Yesterday 20:50
By staff writer
Stabbing near al-Auja follows deepening Israeli violence across West Bank
TEHRAN — An Israeli settler sustained moderate injuries Sunday in a stabbing operation near the Palestinian village of al-Auja in the occupied Jordan Valley.
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Yesterday 20:50
By staff writer
Once again, Israel bombs populated Lebanese villages with prohibited white phosphorus
TEHRAN — Israeli forces launched an extensive wave of artillery shelling and airstrikes across southern Lebanon overnight into Saturday, saturating several residential neighborhoods with banned white phosphorus munitions.
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Yesterday 20:49
By Ali Minabi
Trump destroys U.S. diplomacy and global trust in America
TEHRAN — From using negotiations as a pretext for surprise attacks to abducting and assassinating heads of state and reneging on American commitments, including his own, Trump’s damage to U.S. diplomacy will remain evident for many years to come.
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Yesterday 20:48
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
The dollar's suicide note: How Washington's financial arrogance is destroying its own empire
TEHRAN — When the US Treasury announced on August 20 it would increase buybacks of long-dated bonds, the financial world should have been alarmed. Instead, markets reacted with the only rational response: they sold the dollar.
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2026-08-22 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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2026-08-22 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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2026-08-22 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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2026-08-22 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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2026-08-22 21:01
International Peoples’ Assembly: Solidarity with Iran means confronting the aggressor
TEHRAN – An open letter published by The Guardian on August 20 has drawn criticism for placing Iran and the U.S. and Israel which launched a war against the Islamic Republic within what critics describe as a morally misleading framework.
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2026-08-22 20:55
By Ranjan Solomon
When the judge is punished: America, the veto and the unravelling of international law
“When law becomes subordinate to power, justice becomes a privilege rather than a right”
GOA, India - There is something profoundly disturbing about the spectacle now unfolding before the world. The United States, which has for decades presented itself as the principal architect and defender of the rules-based international order, is increasingly behaving as though international rules are legitimate only when they serve American power.
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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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2026-08-21 19:40
California state Senator Aisha Wahab opposed by AIPAC wins California special election
California state Senator Aisha Wahab will serve out the remainder of former representative Eric Swalwell’s term after securing victory Thursday in a special election, The Times of Israel reported.
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2026-08-21 19:40
Yemeni drones strike Aramco oil facilities, Najran airport
TEHRAN — Yemeni Armed Forces launched back-to-back drone strikes on August 20, targeting a sensitive military installation at Najran Airport and a major Aramco oil facility in southern Saudi Arabia.
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2026-08-21 19:39
By Ali Minabi
Palestine and genocide: Redefining resilience
TEHRAN – Since Trump’s son-in-law and U.S. envoy Jared Kushner met fugitive war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv several days ago, the Israeli regime has killed more Palestinians.
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2026-08-19 20:08
US sanctions ICC president, trial lawyer to dismantle the international body
The US announced on Tuesday that it is sanctioning the Japanese president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Tomoko Akane, as well as the body's Senegalese senior trial lawyer, Abdoulaye Seye.
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2026-08-19 19:20
Israel kills nine in Gaza police station bombing
Israel hit a cafe in Gaza City a day earlier and killed at least seven people
Israeli air strikes killed at least nine Palestinians at a police station in Gaza City on Wednesday, in the latest escalation as mediators push to advance the fragile ceasefire, Middle East Eye reported.
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2026-08-19 18:27
By staff writer
Israeli troops shoot children and abduct medical workers in West Bank
TEHRAN — Israeli forces and settler militias are executing an aggressive campaign of violence across the West Bank.
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2026-08-19 18:11
By Martin Love
MAGA stands for “Make America Grotesque Again”
NORTH CAROLINA - A university town in central North Carolina not too far from Washington is a fair place to get a read on the U.S. zeitgeist, especially since Trump began a grotesque kinetic war on Iran on February 28th.
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2026-08-19 17:45
By Elaheh Tahmasebi
Post-Maduro Venezuela: Washington’s lab for Latin America
TEHRAN – The ongoing transformations in Venezuela have placed the country in a state suspended between structural collapse and managed transition; a situation that neither indicates the complete downfall of the previous structure nor points to the establishment of a national and independent sovereignty.
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2026-08-19 17:12
By Ali Minabi
What chances does the Cairo agreement on Gaza have of succeeding?
TEHRAN – Gaza’s residents are waiting eagerly for the genocide to come to an end and a sense of security prevail, but Israel’s refusal to compromise and the challenges of implementing the Cairo agreement make a quick breakthrough unlikely.
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2026-08-18 20:44
By Kurosh Alyani
Sarah’s war against the rest of civilization
TEHRAN – Sarah Little writes in The Economist about a “war on women” in Afghanistan. If one looks only at the Taliban’s regulations concerning women, the phrase does not seem unreasonable. But this is precisely where the problem begins. Why is what the Taliban does through law, policing, and direct command described as “war,” while what dominant economic structures in Western societies do through media, culture, fashion, markets, the beauty industry, and the production of desire is rarely placed within the realm of war, coercion, or even power?
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2026-08-18 20:44
By Ali Minabi
Iraqi resistance group sets conditions over weapons
Kataeb Hezbollah demands full exit of US forces, dissolution of Peshmerga and expulsion of Turkish forces in northern Iraq
TEHRAN – An official from the Iraqi resistance group Kataeb Hezbollah has issued a sharply worded statement setting out conditions for any future cooperation with the Iraqi government over the question of weapons held by the resistance forces.
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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 20:43
By staff writer
Trump’s threat to bomb Oman triggers backlash across Arab world and US
TEHRAN — Donald Trump triggered international backlash after threatening military strikes against Oman, reportedly punishing the Persian Gulf nation for negotiating a maritime traffic arrangement with Iran.
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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 21:59
By Ali Minabi
Yemeni-Saudi escalation: The core problem and key solution
TEHRAN – The Yemeni equation is based on escalation in response to escalation and pressure in response to pressure, to compel Saudi Arabia to fulfill the obligations of peace and end the aggression and blockade.
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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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2026-08-16 20:47
By staff writer
Yemen strikes Saudi-linked mercenary concentrations in Mokha
TEHRAN — The Yemeni Armed Forces have shattered the illusion of a frozen conflict by unleashing a devastating wave of ballistic missiles and drones against Saudi-affiliated military concentrations across Mokha and Marib.