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14 Feb 2025, 13:11
Politics
The Lebanese government has suspended Iranian flights to Beirut after the Israeli army claimed Tehran was smuggling clash to Hezbollah
14 Feb 2025, 11:08
US intelligence estimates say Israel is considering attacking Iran’s nuclear sites and that the strikes could potentially occur this year
13 Feb 2025, 18:13
Officials from European and West Asian nations welcomed the foreign minister of Syria's de-facto government during his first official visit to an EU state
13 Feb 2025, 17:24
Protests broke out outside Lebanon's only airport as citizens expressed outrage over the incident
13 Feb 2025, 16:57
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced and over two dozen killed across the occupied West Bank over the past three weeks
13 Feb 2025, 16:43
Dozens of nations have warned that Washington's actions against the ICC 'threaten to erode the international rule of law'
13 Feb 2025, 15:34
Donald Trump’s controversial plan aims to displace the Gaza Strip’s population and grant the US ownership of the enclave
13 Feb 2025, 14:05
The Iranian president affirmed that Tehran will not negotiate with Washington under sanctions
13 Feb 2025, 12:03
As Iran and Russia-backed forces in Sudan achieve major battlefield successes, Tehran and Moscow look to gain a strategic Red Sea foothold to compensate for their setbacks in Syria.
13 Feb 2025, 11:10
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has denied reports that the truce crisis has been solved and that agreements were reached regarding the prisoner swap
12 Feb 2025, 17:36
The Israeli military has amassed troops around the Gaza Strip under orders from Netanyahu, who has threatened to reignited the US-backed genocide of Palestinians
12 Feb 2025, 17:33
Lebanon’s president has called for international pressure on Israel to withdraw its forces by the end of the designated period
12 Feb 2025, 16:27
The Israeli military is largely responsible for a 22 percent spike in journalist deaths since 2023
12 Feb 2025, 16:01
The Kremlin has been in talks with the western-backed 'transitional government' to keep control of its key military bases in Syria
12 Feb 2025, 14:51
Dr Hussam Abu Safia’s family says he was held in solitary confinement for weeks and given barely enough food
12 Feb 2025, 14:29
The race for AI supremacy is no longer just a US–China showdown. West Asia's energy rich states are leveraging their financial muscle to invest in both American and Chinese AI firms, holding the power to tip the scales in this high-stakes tech war.
12 Feb 2025, 13:21
Trump has signed an executive order cutting aid to South Africa over its genocide case against Israel, also accusing the country of racism against white people
12 Feb 2025, 10:24
Egypt and Jordan have publicly rejected US President Donald Trump's plan to displace the population of Gaza and take over the strip
11 Feb 2025, 19:29
President Trump doubled down on his plan to forcibly displace Gaza's 2.3 million residents to Jordan and Egypt during a meeting with King Abdullah
11 Feb 2025, 17:27
Hamas announced that the release of additional captives has been suspended due to continuous Israeli violations of the ceasefire terms
11 Feb 2025, 17:03
US President Donald Trump threatened a collapse of the Gaza ceasefire if all Israeli captives held in the strip are not released by the coming weekend
11 Feb 2025, 15:51
Israel is implementing the same tactics it used in Gaza to destroy cities and towns in the occupied West Bank
11 Feb 2025, 14:21
Shipping executives fear Yemeni forces will resume attacks on US and UK-linked ships off the Yemeni coast in response to Trump's plan
11 Feb 2025, 13:58
Hamas has delayed the next round of prisoner exchanges until Israel stops its ceasefire violations, as concern grows over a potential resumption of the war
11 Feb 2025, 13:50
Newly leaked documents expose Washington’s ongoing, covert push for regime change in Iran. With millions funneled into secretive initiatives, the US aims to infiltrate civil society, manipulate political participation, and engineer unrest, all while keeping its Iranian beneficiaries in the shadows.
11 Feb 2025, 13:07
Three Israeli army brigades currently occupy Syrian territory without resistance from the new government in Damascus
11 Feb 2025, 12:44
Israel claims Hezbollah has plans to rebuild its presence in south Lebanon after an Israeli withdrawal takes place
11 Feb 2025, 10:10
The US president said ‘hell will break loose’ if all Israeli captives are not released by the weekend, openly violating the ceasefire and exchange process
10 Feb 2025, 18:53
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is under heavy pressure to win the release of more captives from Gaza
10 Feb 2025, 17:16
The Turkish President continues to support Israel covertly while publicly speaking against the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
10 Feb 2025, 17:00
US President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order reinstating harsh sanctions against the Islamic Republic
10 Feb 2025, 15:03
Trump’s radical proposal to expel Gaza’s two million Palestinians to Arab lands may have exposed the US–Israeli ethnic cleansing agenda, but it is calculatingly geared as a threat to pressure Arab states to normalize ties with Israel.