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By Garsha Vazirian
Israel’s digital house of cards
Why the cyber superpower myth is failing
TEHRAN – For decades, Israel has meticulously curated an image of itself as an impenetrable "cyber superpower," a high-tech "villa in the jungle" where the fabricated "start-up nation" myth provided a psychological shield for its settler population.
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By Sondoss Al Asaad
Implications for Yemen’s prisoner exchange
BEIRUT—A historic breakthrough has emerged in Yemen’s humanitarian landscape with the signing of an agreement to release 1,700 prisoners from the army and popular committees in exchange for 1,200 detainees from the opposite side, including seven Saudis and 23 Sudanese.
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By Wesam Bahrani
Gaza truce turns to strategic impasse
TEHRAN – The resistance in Gaza is fighting a battle guided by a logic of achievable deterrence.
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By Garsha Vazirian
Israel’s digital house of cards
Why the cyber superpower myth is failing
TEHRAN – For decades, Israel has meticulously curated an image of itself as an impenetrable "cyber superpower," a high-tech "villa in the jungle" where the fabricated "start-up nation" myth provided a psychological shield for its settler population.
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Expert warns crisis in West Asia will worsen in 2026 without policy shifts
‘2025 has exposed dangers of unilateralism, militarized regional strategies and maximalist ideological projects’
TEHRAN - A Princeton University researcher says 2026 may bring “deeper instability” at a great cost to the Middle East and United States if UN resolutions are not enacted, a regional security mechanism is not established, and the US and Iran don’t enter comprehensive dialogue.
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Israel’s bombing forces Gaza families to live in ruins
Families across Gaza are returning to buildings scarred by war, transforming ruins into fragile shelters.
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Maduro says defending Venezuela today is defending peace, law
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has sent a letter to heads of state across Latin America and the Caribbean, denouncing an escalation of U.S. acts of aggression against Venezuela and warning that the actions pose serious risks to regional stability.
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Algeria declares French colonization a crime, demands reparations
Algeria’s parliament unanimously approved a law on Wednesday declaring France’s colonization of the country a crime and demanded an apology and reparations, the Guardian reported.
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By Wesam Bahrani
Gaza truce turns to strategic impasse
TEHRAN – The resistance in Gaza is fighting a battle guided by a logic of achievable deterrence.
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By Sondoss Al Asaad
Implications for Yemen’s prisoner exchange
BEIRUT—A historic breakthrough has emerged in Yemen’s humanitarian landscape with the signing of an agreement to release 1,700 prisoners from the army and popular committees in exchange for 1,200 detainees from the opposite side, including seven Saudis and 23 Sudanese.
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By Ranjan Solomon
Europe’s moral collapse: Ukraine, NATO, and death of a civilization
The real tragedy of Europe is not that it makes mistakes, but that it refuses to learn from them
GOA - The European Union today presents itself as a defender of democracy, human rights, and international law. Yet nowhere is the hollowness of this claim more exposed than in Ukraine. The EU’s uncritical embrace of Volodymyr Zelensky—while condemning leaders like Nicolás Maduro as dictators - reveals not a principled commitment to democracy, but a selective morality rooted in power, obedience, and geopolitical convenience.
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Recorders recovered after Turkey plane crash that killed Libyan military officials
Search teams in Turkey on Wednesday recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from a jet crash that killed eight people, including western Libya’s military chief, while efforts to retrieve the victims’ remains were still underway, Turkey’s interior minister said.
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Al-Ameri rejects rumors of PMF dissolution
Hadi al-Ameri, head of Iraq’s Fatah Alliance and secretary-general of the Badr Organization, has strongly rejected claims circulating in the media and social networks about the dissolution of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
