We've collected the top geopolitical conflict articles from the Middle East and brought them all here. If you're tired of only having access to MSM versions of the story, you've found the right place. We’ll include all of the outlets we know of. For this post, we looked at 10 news sites and located 70 current articles out of 467 reviewed.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have been conducting strikes and seizing territory throughout the region, prompting serious concern from Gulf nations.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun says the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from the south and the return of displaced people to their areas constitute ‘national principles’ that must be upheld.
A video circulating on Sunday evening showed an armed Israeli settler abusing five Palestinian children in Beit Ummar, in the Hebron governorate of the occupied West Bank. According to Palestine TV, which is state-owned and published the video on its digital platforms, “an armed settler threatened and detained a group of young men in Beit Ummar, Hebron”. The video shows the settler near a Palestin...
Half a billion Arabs inhabit a region drowning in weapons. There are millions of men under arms, fleets of American and European combat aircraft, missile batteries, intelligence agencies, foreign bases and defense budgets large enough to make the arms trade look like a branch of theology. Then came Gaza, and the grand architecture of Arab power was exposed as something altogether less impressive: ...
Even if most soldiers followed the rules, some would need to pay a legal price for their actions, both because that is the IDF's value and because such accountability may yet save the Jewish state.
The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. It reveals 'in detail the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza' following the events of October 7, according to its synopsis
Twenty Israeli occupier families have seized land in the Jordan Valley, eastern occupied West Bank as Israel continues to expand illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory. The occupiers on Monday moved into the newly established agricultural settlement of Bitron, which was inaugurated ahead of the Jewish New Year on Sept. 12, Israel’s Channel 12 reported. Bitron is one of 13 settlements tha...
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – A Yemeni military source said a Saudi air defence missile struck a mosque in Saudi Arabia, rejecting media claims that a Yemeni missile hit the mosque.
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – More than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators have gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo to protest Israel’s military occupation’s genocide in Gaza and demand the expulsion of the new ambassador-designate Emmanuel Navon.
By Feras DalateyTARTOUS, Syria, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A convoy of Russian naval and cargo vessels delivered supplies last week to coastal facilities long used by Moscow’s military, two sources familiar with the operation said, in the first such mission since Damascus and Moscow agreed last month on the future of Russia’s military presence in the country.
Israeli forces have stepped up attacks on homes and civilian infrastructure in southern Lebanon and shelled the outskirts of Beit Jinn in Syria’s Damascus countryside.
The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. It reveals 'in detail the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza' following the events of October 7, according to its synopsis
Mahdieh Esfandiari, an Iranian academic who lived in France for eight years, has been unjustly detained for condemning Israel’s actions in Gaza on social media.
London, IRNA - Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva has warned that any assessment of the economic and developmental consequences of the Strait of Hormuz crisis would be incomplete without addressing its root causes, which he attributed directly to US and Israeli military aggression.
Russia’s Almaz-Antey Air and Space Defence Corporation used the El Alamein International Airshow 2026 to unveil the 1L122ME compact multifunctional radar outside Russia for the first time, according to a […]
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) voiced “deep concern” Monday over Israeli military strikes hitting densely populated areas across the Gaza Strip and continuing to kill and injure civilians. “We reiterate that civilians and civilian infrastructure, including humanitarians and their supplies and property, must always be protected,” UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq ...
Israeli Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar said on Sunday evening that he would seek to revoke the Israeli citizenship of the directors of the Israeli film NAZA, after it won the Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. The film was directed by Oscar-winning Israeli journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (Britain). Some critics had tipped it for the festival’s Golden Lion...
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that two more Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll from Israel’s genocide over nearly three years to 73,786, Anadolu reports. In its daily statistical report, the ministry said hospitals in the enclave received two new bodies and 25 injured people over the past 24 hours. The ministry did not provide details on the circumstances o...
Israel’s Likud party, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday it plans to submit requests to prevent the Joint List and the United Arab List (Ra’am) from running in the next Knesset election, scheduled for October. “Likud will submit requests to prevent the Joint List and Ra’am from taking part in the election,” the party said in a statement. It claimed that “there is no place in ...
LISBON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Portugal's foreign minister said on Monday that Israeli settlement expansion and economic pressure in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem were undermining prospects for a viable Palestinian state.• Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said Israel's E1 settlement plan was "extremely pernicious" because it would divide the West Bank, isolate East Jerusalem and was incompat...
Brent crude has risen above $100 a barrel as war in Iran disrupts shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
European countries are moving toward prison sentences that could be as long as 10 years for individuals and companies involved in trade with Israeli illegal settlements built on occupied Palestinian land, Israeli media reported. Israel’s Channel 7 said Norway is preparing a legal framework to boycott settlement products, including prison sentences of up to three years for individuals or companies ...
The Israeli culture minister says he will seek to revoke the citizenship of two filmmakers following the success of their Gaza war documentary at the Venice Film Festival.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem on Monday accused Israel of seeking to erase the Palestinian presence in the occupied West Bank through a series of interconnected policies aimed at reshaping the territory, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the group said Israel is simultaneously employing five mechanisms that reinforce one another to dismantle the collective Palestinian presence and establish a...
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said the documentary showing soldiers' testimonies on Israeli strikes in Gaza is 'based on blood libels.' Israeli diplomatic officials fear the IDF may not be able to refute the film's claims
BRICS must reject “occupation, settler colonialism,” and “settler terrorism,” as Israel’s “aggression” in the Middle East has affected “far beyond” those directly involved, the Malaysian prime minister told the bloc’s annual summit in New Delhi on Sunday. “BRICS must say plainly and unequivocally that occupation, settler colonialism and, more pointedly, ‘settler terrorism’ cannot become destiny, a...
Trump chose economic pressure over all-out war with Iran. Now the Houthis are confronting Saudi Arabia, while Netanyahu is trying to draw Tehran into the fighting through Lebanon
Iran said on Monday that a planned meeting in Oman involving foreign ministers from Gulf countries and Tehran was canceled at Saudi Arabia’s request, Anadolu reports. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei told a press briefing that Riyadh requested the meeting should not take place for the time being. “The report that Saudi Arabia requested that the meeting not be held for now is correct,” Baqa...
The fiscal pressure caused by the illegal US-Israeli aggression against Iran may reportedly lead Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE to prioritize domestic spending over nearly $4 trillion in economic commitments to the United States.
As the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran rattles the global economy, Italy remains highly exposed to fossil fuel shocks, importing nearly all the gas and oil it uses.
While the evidence of Israeli war crimes in the documentary film 'NAZA' may be extraordinary, the Israeli response to it is not
Israel is holding 37 Palestinian journalists in its prisons, including 19 under administrative detention without charge or trial, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said Sunday. The nongovernmental group said all 37 journalists were detained following the start of the Gaza genocide in October 2023. It said Israel continues to target Palestinian journalists through arrests, prison sentences, solitary...
Tehran, IRNA — Lebanese sources have reported continued violations of the ceasefire by Israeli regime forces, including airstrikes, artillery fire, and destructive actions in southern Lebanon.
Yemen’s Houthis on Monday claimed to have carried out a large-scale missile and drone attack on a Saudi air base in the southern city of Khamis Mushait, Anadolu reports. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a statement that the group targeted King Khalid Air Base with dozens of ballistic missiles and drones. He claimed the attack targeted aircraft hangars, radars, runways, ammunition depo...
The film's directors said the soldiers and officers interviewed wanted Israelis to hear what they did in Gaza. The Israeli military said the interviewees' identities and roles cannot be independently verified
Europe’s bid to reimpose UN sanctions on Tehran has ignited a fierce backlash, with Iran denouncing the move as “illegal” and vowing firm retaliation.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the United States would be prepared to provide Iran with nuclear fuel if the Iranian nuclear issue is resolved. Bloomberg quoted Wright as saying: “We can supply fuel from outside the country.” Wright linked the offer to Iran’s nuclear programme, which he claimed is aimed at developing a nuclear weapon, although Iran has repeatedly said it has never sought to ...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received US Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper and his accompanying delegation in Jeddah on Monday, state news agency SPA reported. During the meeting, the two sides reviewed bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and the US, as well as the latest regional developments. The meeting was also attended by Saudi Minister of State, Cabinet member and Nationa...
US President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that Tehran “wants to make a deal” to end the war, forecasting a rapid decline in domestic fuel costs once hostilities cease, Anadolu reports. “Look, it could end before the midterms, but it’ll end after the midterms,” Trump told reporters in Ireland, where he attended the Amgen Irish Open golf tournament hosted at his Trump International Golf Links resort....
Yemen’s Armed Forces have seized key port cities, advancing towards Bab el-Mandeb and warning Saudi Arabia of escalation if the blockade continues.
Automated AI drones are just one component of an ultimate chain of destruction both sides are building.
The situation in global oil markets is rapidly deteriorating amid instability in the Persian Gulf, with major volumes of oil being removed from international supply, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, Anadolu reports. Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, Peskov pointed out that “a huge amount of oil is dropping out of the market.” “Just with the disruption of the oil pipeline in Sa...
Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem has vowed the group will not disarm while Israeli occupation persists, denouncing Lebanon’s cabinet decision on its weapons as a US-driven move that risks sparking civil strife.
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – Iran’s High Council for Human Rights (HCHR) has strongly condemned the Israeli regime's continued airstrikes and shelling of residential areas and crimes against the people of Lebanon.
JERUSALEM, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that a new documentary film which alleges that mass civilian deaths were routinely built into targeting decisions in Gaza was part of a wave of global incitement against Jews."NAZA", directed by Israeli journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday...
The Houthi militia said on Monday that it fired dozens of drones and ballistic missiles at military targets in Saudi Arabia in retaliation for airstrikes by Riyadh in Yemen.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday said Israeli military operations in Syria of weakening the country’s capabilities and indirectly benefiting ISIS, as he held talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani in Damascus. Speaking at a joint press conference, Fidan argued that Israeli strikes were undermining efforts to stabilize Syria and strengthen its institutions. “Israel const...
IDF Northern Command sources said Hezbollah has been targeting areas the military never formally entered, with Israel countering the activity through airstrikes, artillery, and combat engineering uni
B'Tselem says settlement expansion, displacement and curbs are not isolated abuses, but decades-old, coordinated system.
US President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran wants to reach an agreement with Washington “quickly and badly,” while saying he would decide whether the US engages with Tehran, Anadolu reports. “The failing Nation of Iran wants to make a deal, quickly and badly,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “I will determine whether or not the U.S.A. will choose to engage — The concept ...
Israeli rights group B'Tselem said Monday that Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank form part of a greater project designed to make it impossible for Palestinians to exist together as a people. In a report titled "The Elimination Project", the group alleged five connected Israeli tactics and policies in the West Bank: "violence, ethnic cleansing, movement restrictions, economic ...
Experts say a rainy winter and mild spring are likely behind the surge, though the environmental impact of the war in Gaza may also be playing a role
Many have been shocked by a proposal in Israeli media that suggested preying upon indebted young Americans in order to turn them into troops against Iran.
India on Sunday said 13 crew members were rescued, while one remains missing after an attack on a vessel off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, Anadolu reports. India’s Ministry of External Affairs, while condemning the attack on the commercial vessel “MT El Gaia,” said 14 Indian crew members were on board when the attack happened and one remained missing. “Our Embassy in Oman is closely m...
The Yemeni Armed Forces stage a large-scale missile-and-drone operation against a Saudi military base in response to continued Saudi attacks against Yemen.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said Sunday that the kingdom will not accept any threat to its security, warning that continued escalation in the region risks widening the confrontation, Anadolu reports. In an address to the BRICS summit in the Indian capital New Delhi, bin Farhan expressed Saudi Arabia’s appreciation for the invitation to participate in the summit, according to Sa...
Iran can make the Strait of Hormuz more dangerous, push oil prices higher, and pressure US President Donald Trump through American gas prices. But Tehran’s ability to profit has been crippled.
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – The regional meeting of Persian Gulf foreign ministers on the Strait of Hormuz has been postponed at the request of some regional countries and by joint decision of Oman and Iran.
The Yemeni armed forces say they have conducted a large-scale military operation against a key Saudi airbase in the southwestern city of Khamis Mushait.
The Palestinian Embassy in Cairo announced on Sunday that it had reached an agreement with the Swiss United Hope Foundation to provide free heart surgeries for eligible Palestinian children in Egypt. The agreement was reached during a meeting between the embassy’s chargé d’affaires, Ambassador Naji al-Naji, and United Hope Foundation President Cyril Morsel, according to a statement from the embass...
Everything could have turned out differently, not only had Netanyahu briefed senior defense officials, but also at several points along the way
The creators of 'NAZA' are trying to force Israelis to confront what they already know: that Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza has left a black stain
Israel has stepped up the readiness of its naval forces amid growing concern over advances by Yemen’s Houthi group near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday. The daily said Israel’s security establishment is closely monitoring developments after the Houthis expanded their presence along Yemen’s Red Sea coast and strengthened their position arou...
Twenty-one Palestinians, including four children, were injured Monday in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, despite a ceasefire agreement in force since last October, Anadolu reports. In the latest developments, medical sources told Anadolu that 10 Palestinians were injured in an Israeli strike targeting a tent on Al-Wahda Street in central Gaza City. The sources described the condition of two of ...
Satellite imagery shows extensive damage to a Saudi Aramco fuel depot and apparent damage to a military site in southern Saudi Arabia following recent Yemen’s Houthi attacks, according to analyses by satellite imagery platform Soar, Anadolu reports. Satellite images of Saudi Aramco’s bulk fuel plant in Abha show at least six storage tanks completely destroyed, while eight others sustained varying ...
Earlier Monday, IDF Spokesperson Effie Defrin said the film presents “false claims” but emphasized the need for military representatives to watch the full film.
The Israeli regime escalates airstrikes and demolitions across south Lebanon, violating the ceasefire and displacing residents.
The backlash follows the IDF's rejection of the documentary's allegations and a minister's call to revoke its creators' citizenship.
Massive protests erupt across Lebanon as citizens reject a US-backed plan to disarm Hezbollah, warning it would expose the country—especially its southern border—to increased Israeli aggression and undermine national security.
Tehran, IRNA – The daily report provides a summary of the violations committed by the occupation forces since the ceasefire agreement came into force, documenting these through figures and field developments.