Tensions between the United States and Cuba are escalating as sanctions tighten, deepening the island’s economic and humanitarian crisis amid growing regional concern.

Israel’s occupation of Arab states does not necessarily have to take a physical form, as happened in the past with the rest of Palestine, the Syrian Golan, Egypt’s Sinai, and Lebanon’s Shebaa Farms and Kfar Shouba Hills. It may also take other forms, as later envisioned in Israeli strategy. Following that period of occupation, Israel…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes appeared intended to project confidence and control to an American audience. Instead, much of the Israeli press saw something else entirely: a leader visibly worn down, politically disoriented, evasive on responsibility, and increasingly trapped by the accumulating consequences of the wars in Gaza and Iran…

A high-stakes confrontation stretching from Washington to Tehran, with the Gulf caught in the middle as global powers recalibrate their strategies.

The grand deceptions, the inversion of perpetrator and victim, and the great instigation of chaos On the evening of 6 January 2026, as the streets of Tehran and several other Iranian cities were engulfed in terrorist violence that ultimately claimed the lives of more than three thousand people, Mike Pompeo, the former US regime’s Secretary…

As U.S.-Iran negotiations intensify, Lebanon faces mounting pressure over Hezbollah’s future, Israel’s security demands, and a fragile regional balance that could redefine power across the Middle East.

TEHRAN — A report published by Haaretz on May 17 suggests that the International Criminal Court is moving quietly toward new arrest warrants for senior Israeli figures, including Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, alongside military officials tied to the genocidal war on Gaza and the wider campaign of destruction across the region.

Rising security incidents, espionage cases, and sectarian incitement highlight deeper structural challenges facing regional stability

TEHRAN- Reacting to the United States' endless wars in West Asia, Senator Bernie Sanders has declared that while the country cannot afford housing, healthcare, or childcare, it somehow always finds money for another bloody war.

A U.S.-hosted framework advances dual-track negotiations in Washington, linking ceasefire arrangements, border withdrawal, and security mechanisms under American coordination.

TEHRAN – In a message issued on the occasion of the Persian Language Day and in commemoration of the great Iranian poet Ferdowsi (May 15), Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, emphasized the vast potential of the Persian language and literature for promoting the rich culture and civilization of Islamic Iran…

A tense confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz and the Beijing summit expose a new global order where maritime security, trade routes, and superpower rivalry collide, turning a regional chokepoint into a mirror of 21st-century geopolitics.

TEHRAN – In 1917, British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour set the stage for a tragedy that is still bleeding, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

As Lebanon’s parliament debates a long-delayed general amnesty law, the “Shiite Duo” faces scrutiny over its cautious stance, with lawmakers highlighting disputes over detainees, drug-related cases, and controversial files linked to Israel.

By Joshua McElwee ROME, May 14 (Reuters) - Pope Leo on Thursday decried rising European military spending, which grew last year by the highest amount since the end of the Cold War amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, saying it was a betrayal of diplomacy. Leo, who has drawn Trump's ire in recent weeks…

Behind claims of liberation and Islamic revival lies a complex reality of authoritarian control, ideological expansion, and lessons the world cannot afford to ignore.

Israel's electoral circus and its sick logic of permanent warmongering

Those remaining within the Iranian regime have no objective beyond self-preservation. Does Hezbollah in Lebanon recognize this, or does it remain beholden to the Revolutionary Guard, which has come to embody and dominate the Iranian regime? The direct negotiations between the “Islamic Republic” and the “Great Satan,” held in Islamabad and mediated …

TEHRAN — The term "Christian Zionism" refers to a belief among some Christians that supports the flood of the Jews to Israel and the establishment of a Jewish state as part of biblical prophecy.

Europe may be on the brink of a major “liberation revolution” from American technological dependency in the coming months. Like most “revolutions” in the continent’s history, it began in France, where authorities decided to replace the Windows system in their administrations with Linux, following months of replacing Microsoft Teams with the French …

Marx analyzed the dynamics by which employers profit from workers’ labor, predicting that this exploitation would inevitably spark a revolution. A logical conclusion, it would seem—yet most workers have not revolted over the past hundred years, nor are they revolting today. Marx also predicted that European societies with the highest proportion of workers, such as…

Six missiles were launched by elements of the “Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps” from Lebanon toward northern Israel on March 2nd. This added to Lebanon’s existing losses: about ten thousand casualties between dead and injured, 1.2 million displaced people, increased destruction in areas where Hezbollah is present, and a vast number of tragedies. …

In his recent article in Asharq Al-Awsat, Prince Turki Al-Faisal offers a sober and realistic reading of the balance of power in the Arabian Gulf. With his deep security and diplomatic experience, Prince Turki presents an analysis that commands the attention of observers. Western media often treat his statements as indicators of Riyadh’s strategic mood,…

While attention is focused on Islamabad, awaiting the outcome of diplomacy between Washington and Tehran, Iran remains overshadowed by the “Twelve-Day War” complex, which has become a practical model for President Trump’s policy, as described by reformist journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin. The United States begins by setting a hopeful tone, then s…

Netanyahu’s vow to end U.S. subsidies is a strategic gaslight designed to hide a deeper fusion

The Saudi leadership is taking the ongoing U.S.-Iranian negotiations, brokered by Pakistan, very seriously, even though it is not directly part of them. However, not having a seat at the negotiating table does not mean Saudi Arabia is out of the equation, as its national interests and national security remain central to the calculations of…

(MENAFN - AsiaNet News) Congress Slams PM Modi on Energy Security Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal on Sunday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing the government ...

Much of the current discourse on the Middle East remains fixated on the US midterm congressional elections this coming November. This vote, in particular, is being framed as a pivotal turning point for everything from the survival of Gaza and Lebanon to the future of Iran and beyond. To a large extent, one can understand…

(MENAFN) According to reports, a commentary warns against religious discourse being used in ways that deepen tensions in the Middle East, arguing that the region has already been heavily damaged by ...

“American Jews and Jews in general are safer in countries where everybody is treated equally under the law,” Peter Beinart tells TRNN. “The principle of Jewish supremacy, and Christian supremacy, and Hindu supremacy, and Islamic supremacy—all of those things are wrong.”

Since the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon to expel the PLO, Hezbollah has been a thorn in Israel’s side. Born of that very invasion, the Party — as it is called — waged a relentless guerrilla war against Israeli troops occupying southern Lebanon, backed, financed, and trained by Iran. Its ideological allegiance to Tehran was…

On the first day of May, in the quiet southern Lebanese village of Yaroun, a monastery that had stood for generations disappeared in a cloud of dust. The Sisters of the Holy Saviour monastery and its adjoining school — described by Lebanon’s National News Agency as one of the region’s most prominent educational institutions —…

Ceasefires are usually treated as the negative space of war: the moment when fire stops, diplomats return and the strategic temperature begins to fall. That reading is dangerously incomplete. In the present Iran-US-Israel confrontation, the ceasefire is not merely an interruption of violence. It is becoming a coercive architecture in its own right: a system…

(MENAFN - Amman Net) Jordanian columnists have examined the performance of the national economy in light of escalating regional challenges. Economic writer Salameh Al-Darawsha highlighted three ...

“Lebanon cannot be another Gaza,” the UN Secretary General’s Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said last week in response to a question during a press briefing regarding Israel’s war in Lebanon. Earlier this month, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich openly spoke about Israel’s plans to extend its non-declared borders into Syria and Lebanon, besides the encroachment already…

The enduring temptation in Western strategic thinking is to treat Iran as a problem to be managed rather than a civilisation to be understood. That misreading has proven costly. Beneath the daily churn of sanctions, proxy skirmishes, and nuclear brinkmanship lies a far deeper story—one of continuity, identity, and power that predates the modern state…

The decision by Donald Trump to unilaterally announce an indefinite extension of the ceasefire with Iran, without any request from Tehran, reveals more than an attempt at mediation. It exposes the failure of Washington’s military approach and the difficulty the United States faces in sustaining escalation against an adversary that does not yield to the…

A Palestinian pastor has called for public anger to be directed at attacks on civilians and widespread destruction in Gaza and Lebanon, rather than at the demolition of a statue of Christ by an Israeli soldier. Munther Isaac, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Ramallah in the central West Bank, said on the…

The deaths of Palestinians and destruction in Gaza and the West Bank have received less empathy than the destruction of a Jesus statue by an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon, Haaretz newspaper said, Anadolu reports. Video footage circulating on Sunday showed an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus with a pickaxe in the town…

With a shaky ceasefire in place between the US, Israel and Iran – and little progress on talks to resolve the complex issues at the heart of the war – where is this conflict going? The most likely scenario is a frozen conflict. A frozen conflict is not static, but is an unresolved war that…