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By Shahrokh Saei
Peace on paper, fire on the ground: Trump’s seven-nation strikes in 2025
TEHRAN – Since returning to the White House in January 2025, Donald Trump has tried to cast himself as a peacemaker, insisting that his second term has brought an end to conflicts that long tied down the United States abroad. He has spoken of breaking with what he calls America’s era of “endless wars,” presenting his foreign policy as restraint, not intervention.
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By Garsha Vazirian
The anatomy of a broken Syria and the mirage of sovereignty
How al-Sharaa has failed to secure Syria against relentless Israeli aggression and internal rot
TEHRAN – More than a year after the collapse of the al-Assad government in December 2024, the “New Syria” has proved to be a cruel mirage.
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By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon in 2025: A nation adrift in chaos and defiance
BEIRUT —2025 offered no respite for Lebanon. Fleeting moments of calm only exposed deeper rot gnawing at the state’s foundations. Institutions crumble under chronic mismanagement, while political forces wallow in disarray.
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By Garsha Vazirian
The anatomy of a broken Syria and the mirage of sovereignty
How al-Sharaa has failed to secure Syria against relentless Israeli aggression and internal rot
TEHRAN – More than a year after the collapse of the al-Assad government in December 2024, the “New Syria” has proved to be a cruel mirage.
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By Shahrokh Saei
Peace on paper, fire on the ground: Trump’s seven-nation strikes in 2025
TEHRAN – Since returning to the White House in January 2025, Donald Trump has tried to cast himself as a peacemaker, insisting that his second term has brought an end to conflicts that long tied down the United States abroad. He has spoken of breaking with what he calls America’s era of “endless wars,” presenting his foreign policy as restraint, not intervention.
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By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon in 2025: A nation adrift in chaos and defiance
BEIRUT —2025 offered no respite for Lebanon. Fleeting moments of calm only exposed deeper rot gnawing at the state’s foundations. Institutions crumble under chronic mismanagement, while political forces wallow in disarray.
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The UAE-backed STC remains defiant
Saudi Arabia discloses details of Yemen bombing
Saudi Arabia has released more details on the coalition bombing of the Yemeni port of Mukalla, which has triggered tensions with the United Arab Emirates, its Arab ally and neighbor, and prompted the latter to say it will withdraw its forces from Yemen.
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'Humanitarian situation in Gaza is catastrophic'
Winter intensifies crisis as 10 nations warn of worsening Gaza blockade
Foreign ministers from ten nations have voiced alarm over the sharp deterioration of humanitarian conditions in Gaza, warning that the situation has reached “catastrophic” levels.
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By Ranjan Solomon
Venezuela, Russia, and the return of nuclear signaling
How a distant crisis exposes the fractures of the global order
GOA - At a time when global discourse is saturated with managed outrage and selective morality, certain crises are rendered invisible not because they lack consequence, but because they expose uncomfortable truths about power. Venezuela is one such crisis. Rarely discussed beyond caricatures of authoritarianism or economic failure, it has now re-entered the global stage in a far more unsettling form — as a strategic fault line in an intensifying confrontation between imperial persistence and geopolitical resistance.
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Israel to suspend over two dozen aid groups in Gaza starting January 1
Israel said it plans to suspend over two dozen humanitarian organizations working in Gaza, for allegedly failing to comply with Tel Aviv’s new vetting rules on staff, funding, and operations, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), effective January 1, 2026.
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Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first female prime minister, dies at 80
TEHRAN — Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first female prime minister and a central figure in the nation’s politics for more than three decades, passed away on Tuesday at a hospital in Dhaka. She was believed to be 80. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which she led, confirmed her death without disclosing a cause.
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By staff writer
Saudi ‘red line’ and UAE’s adventurism in Yemen
TEHRAN – Saudi Arabia has framed its national security as a “red line,” warning it will act decisively against any foreign military support for separatist groups in Yemen.
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Somalia unites against Israel’s Somaliland recognition amid global backlash
TEHRAN – Israel’s unilateral recognition of Somaliland as an independent state has ignited outrage across Somalia and beyond, with furious protests denouncing the move as a dangerous violation of international law and a direct assault on Somali sovereignty. The announcement, made on December 26, marked the first time any country has formally recognized Somaliland, a breakaway region that declared independence in 1991 but has remained internationally unacknowledged.
