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By staff writer
Is the UAE sailing Israel’s ship in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea?
TEHRAN – The United Arab Emirates has long sought to project itself as a modern, pragmatic power, striking a balance between economic dynamism and regional influence. Yet its deepening partnership with Israel reveals a trajectory that is less about stability and more about embedding Israeli interests into fragile states. From southern Yemen to Somaliland and Sudan, Abu Dhabi’s actions increasingly resemble those of a proxy, enabling Israel’s ambitions in one of the world’s most sensitive maritime corridors.
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By Shahrokh Saei
Fanning the flames: How US arms sales destabilize Taiwan and violate China’s sovereignty
TEHRAN – China’s decision to impose countermeasures on U.S. military-linked companies and senior executives is neither impulsive nor symbolic. It is a calibrated response to Washington’s latest and most provocative escalation on the Taiwan question: an unprecedented $11.1 billion arms package to China’s Taiwan region.
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By Sondoss Al Asaad
How a technical committee has turned into a strategic threat to Lebanon
BEIRUT—What 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.
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Batool Subeiti
When negotiation is unavoidable: Strategies of engagement and resistance
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.
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By Sim Zahra, researcher
The weakness of the world in our struggle
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.
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Major hack exposes Netanyahu’s chief aide in corruption scandal
Bibi’s ‘gatekeeper’ exposed: Handala releases files tied to Qatargate
THERAN – The illusion of impenetrable security surrounding Benjamin Netanyahu’s 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.
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Hezbollah leader rejects foreign-backed disarmament drive as tool for Israeli annexation
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.
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By Shahrokh Saei
Fanning the flames: How US arms sales destabilize Taiwan and violate China’s sovereignty
TEHRAN – China’s decision to impose countermeasures on U.S. military-linked companies and senior executives is neither impulsive nor symbolic. It is a calibrated response to Washington’s latest and most provocative escalation on the Taiwan question: an unprecedented $11.1 billion arms package to China’s Taiwan region.
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By Sondoss Al Asaad
How a technical committee has turned into a strategic threat to Lebanon
BEIRUT—What 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.
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By staff writer
Is the UAE sailing Israel’s ship in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea?
TEHRAN – The United Arab Emirates has long sought to project itself as a modern, pragmatic power, striking a balance between economic dynamism and regional influence. Yet its deepening partnership with Israel reveals a trajectory that is less about stability and more about embedding Israeli interests into fragile states. From southern Yemen to Somaliland and Sudan, Abu Dhabi’s actions increasingly resemble those of a proxy, enabling Israel’s ambitions in one of the world’s most sensitive maritime corridors.
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Woman killed in Gaza as bombed wall collapses on tent amid storm
A Palestinian woman was killed, and several family members were injured when a storm-damaged building wall collapsed onto a tent in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood on Sunday, Anadolu reported.
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21 Islamic, African states condemn Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as destabilizing
Representatives of 21 Islamic, Arab, and African countries on Friday condemned Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as a sovereign state, calling it a violation of international law and a threat to regional stability, Anadolu reported Saturday.
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Israeli settlers rampage through West Bank towns, torch Palestinian cars and vandalize homes
Illegal Israeli settlers attacked and damaged Palestinian properties in the occupied West Bank on Sunday.