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 72 current articles out of 467 reviewed.
An Israeli newspaper reported on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plane will not land at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York during his visit to the United States on Thursday, amid concerns that Mayor Zohran Mamdani could order the plane to leave immediately. Yedioth Ahronoth said Netanyahu’s plane, Israel’s official state aircraft, Wing of Zion, is expected to...
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.
China reiterates its opposition to unilateral sanctions imposed without United Nations authorization after Trump signed sanctions bill targeting Russia and Iran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the Israeli lobby was becoming increasingly open about its role and influence over US policy towards Iran, urging Washington to “break free” from its constraints. Araghchi made the comments in response to an article published by the Israel Hayom newspaper, noting that the newspaper is owned by Miriam Adelson, the spokesperson for this lobby. “The Israel...
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.
More than 160 Irish athletes have signed an open letter calling on Ireland’s national football team to boycott its next two matches against Israel in the UEFA Nations League, the Irish Sport for Palestine group said on Monday. Ireland are due to face Israel in Hungary on 27 September before meeting again in the return match in Serbia on 4 October. Both matches will be played at neutral venues and ...
For Gaza to have a different future - for the thousands of children returning to school for a better future than the one Hamas has condemned them to - it is not enough merely to reopen classrooms.
"The path to victory over terrorism requires...creating strong deterrence. The gallows are an important tool in this struggle, as part of an overall change in approach," said Ben-Gvir.
Bandar Abbas, IRNA – Judiciary spokesperson Ali Kazemi has condemned the US-Israeli bombing of Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab, southern Iran, describing it as more than a military crime and saying it targeted the foundations of morality and humanity in the international community.
UNFPA concluded that Israel’s military response to Hamas had resulted in Palestinian women being subjected to violence by family members, members of the community, and others.
The Hind Rajab Foundation said on Monday that it had filed a criminal complaint with Italian authorities against an Israeli soldier who it says is currently visiting Italy, accusing him of involvement in violations of international law during Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip. The Brussels-based organization identified the soldier as Yonatan Shalikh and said its complaint includes inv...
TEHRAN, Sep. 21 (MNA) – Ansarullah leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi says Saudi Arabia has committed war crimes against Yemen, adding that Yemen’s Sept. 21 revolution secured freedom and independence.
Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization announced Tuesday the cancellation of flights from Tehran to Baghdad and Muscat, Oman, starting early Wednesday, Anadolu reports. “As of 00:00 tonight local time, Baghdad and Muscat airports will not accept Iranian flights, and for this reason, we are coordinating and consulting so that flights destined for Baghdad will be directed to Najaf airport,” the organiza...
The right's problem with Netanyahu was never that he failed on October 7, but that he wasn't extreme enough. As Kahanism takes hold, opposition leaders are still fighting among themselves
Mamdani told CNN that he believes Netanyahu to be "a war criminal and an architect of a horrific genocide," and acknowledged that he lacks the authority to arrest him.
Tehran, IRNA – Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani says the United States and Israeli regime repeated the same “miscalculation” made by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and his supporters by believing that military action against Iran would quickly achieve their objectives.
Pakistan kicked off separate annual military drills with Russia and Oman on Tuesday, an official statement said, Anadolu reports. The ninth edition of the Pakistan-Russia joint exercise, named “Druzhba-IX,” began at Cherat, an elite training center of the Pakistan Army in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a statement from the Pakistan Army said. The second edition of the Pakistan-Oman join...
TEHRAN, Sep. 22 (MNA) – China said on Tuesday it opposed “illegal” US sanctions on Iranian airlines, a day after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened potential measures in a televised interview.
Political analyst Sara Flounders believes that the Trump administration’s decision to sanction the entire ICC proves the US's support for Israel’s crimes in Gaza and the occupied territories.
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.
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.
TEHRAN, Sep. 22 (MNA) –The war that US expected to resolve by leveraging its military superiority has now entered a phase where main issue for the United States is not merely continuation of military operation, rather how to bring conflict to an end.
ANKARA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan said in a joint statement on Tuesday that they affirmed Riyadh's right to defend itself in line with international law and stressed the need to maintain safety of navigation in the region, amid escalating attacks by Yemen's Iran-backedHouthis.
The ministers condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and commercial shipping, warning that the escalation threatens international trade and global stability
Kuwait Field Hospital in al-Mawasi has cut services after fuel shortages halted its generators, further limiting healthcare for displaced Palestinians.
Chile’s push to rebuild closer ties with Israel is facing a domestic political test after controversial remarks by its ambassador in Tel Aviv, Gabriel Zaliasnik, angered the country’s large Palestinian community and raised questions over the government’s foreign policy. The dispute has now reached parliament. On 8th September, the Chamber of Deputies approved an interpellation of Foreign Minister ...
British Premier Andy Burnham has called for action over illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, warning that failure to act could further undermine trust in politics and make a two-state solution non-viable, Anadolu reports. Speaking to reporters alongside US President Donald Trump in New York, Burnham said there could be a point at which the expansion of settlements posed a direct challenge...
China on Tuesday said it is against “illegal unilateral sanctions” as Washington moves to impose sweeping secondary sanctions targeting Iran’s commercial aviation network, Anadolu reports. “China consistently opposes illegal unilateral sanctions that lack a basis in international law and are not authorized by the UN Security Council,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said, responding to the l...
TEHRAN, Sep. 22 (MNA) –Iran’s envoy to UN office in Geneva called for perpetrators of US and Israeli war of aggression on Iran to be held accountable, condemning Washington and Tel Aviv’s violation of international law and their attacks on civilians.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday that Israeli violence, displacement and illegal settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank are undermining prospects for peace and raising the risk of “ethnic cleansing,” Anadolu reports. “Violence, displacement, and settlement expansion by Israel in the occupied West Bank are bulldozing the path to peace and raising the specter of ethnic...
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Monday that humanitarian aid intended for the Gaza Strip was expiring in warehouses because Israel was preventing it from entering the territory, and called for greater international action to enforce humanitarian law. Safadi made the remarks during a seminar in New York focused on humanitarian diplomacy and upholding international humanitarian law, ...
Foreign Minister Araghchi has warned that global inaction toward recent war crimes committed by the United States and Israel against Iran could have catastrophic consequences for the international community.
A senior member of the Ansarullah resistance movement says Yemeni Armed Forces are involved in a ‘decisive battle’ against Saudi Arabia.
Plumes of smoke rose above a Moscow oil refinery, social media video showed, after a drone strike hit the Russian capital.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday lashed out at New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani after the mayor described him as a “war criminal,” Anadolu reports. “Shame on you, Mr. Mandani. Shame on you for supporting Hamas,” Netanyahu said in a video posted on the US social media company X. Netanyahu also accused Mamdani of “inciting riots against New York Jews.” Mamdani became New York City’s...
Jordan's King Abdullah II decried Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as a strategy of ‘forced displacement.'
An adviser to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commander-in-chief has warned that US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and their supporters will face the same fate as former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Eight nations, including Turkiye, on Tuesday called on Israel to immediately fulfill its outstanding commitments under the first phase of the Gaza peace plan, Anadolu reports. The United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Qatar, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Jordan were also among those nations. In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the Muslim-majority nations expressed “deep concern over the ...
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani urged a “regional system of collective security” on Wednesday, arguing that its absence lies “at the heart of the dangerous situation” facing the region, Anadolu reports. In an address to the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, Al-Thani said the crisis in the Gulf region can be resolved diplomatically by reopening the Strait of Hormuz and returning ...
Katz said he was responding to the increasing threat picture about potential aggressive actions by Iran, Turkey, and proxies like Hamas.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called for Gaza’s reconstruction to begin without delay and urged the international community to increase pressure on Israel, Anadolu reports. Addressing the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York, Erdogan said efforts to rebuild Gaza should start as soon as possible. “We need to begin the reconstruction of Gaza without wasting any tim...
Israel prevented Palestinian patients and wounded people in the Gaza Strip from traveling abroad for treatment Monday for the second consecutive day because of Jewish holidays, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, Anadolu reports. “For the second consecutive day, no patients or wounded people have been evacuated through the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings because of holidays observed by the occup...
Hamas on Monday called on Arab and Islamic countries participating in the Peace Council to take what it described as a “clear and practical stance” in response to Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip. Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem accused Israel of continuing attacks that have killed Palestinian civilians despite the ceasefire agreement reached at Sharm El-Sheikh nearly a...
TEHRAN, Sep. 22 (MNA) – New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani renewed his call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes and accused him of visiting a “genocide” on Palestinians.
The mother of James “Jim” Henderson, one of three British aid workers killed when Israeli drone strikes hit a World Central Kitchen (WCK) convoy in Gaza in April 2024, has called on the UK government to stop selling arms to Israel and cut ties with it altogether. “Stop selling arms to Israel. Stop engaging with Israel,” Trish Henderson told the Mirror ahead of a pre-inquest review into her son’s d...
Israeli forces carry out a series of raids across the occupied West Bank, abducting two Palestinians, including a child.
On September 15, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the conflict with Iran had cost the Department of Defense about $38 billion as of August 1. The report also traced consequences beyond military operations, including depleted missile-defense stocks and higher energy prices. As the 2026 midterms approach, it documents how a war overseas has become part of domestic economic life. The mi...
UN Sec.-Gen. Guterres opened the UNGA by condemning Hamas's October 7 terror attack and describing Israel's response as "a scale of death and destruction unlike anything I have seen."
Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, has called for a new regional security framework that brings Gulf states and Iran together, warning that the region cannot go back to how it was before the US-Israeli war on Iran. “Iran is our neighbour,” Sheikh Al Thani told the Qatar Economic Forum in New York on Sunday. “We have to act together responsibly as...
The UN reiterated Monday its condemnation of persistent cross-border attacks launched by Yemeni Houthis against Saudi Arabia, including attempted strikes aimed at Riyadh, Anadolu reports. “We remain deeply concerned about the ongoing military escalation in and around Yemen, including Houthi offensives in Taiz, Lahij, and Marib, with grave consequences for civilians in Yemen and across the region,”...
Human rights organization Amnesty International on Tuesday called on UEFA and FIFA to suspend Israel’s football association, saying its Nations League participation is “unconscionable” because of the association’s support for settlement-based clubs, Anadolu reports. “It’s unconscionable that the Israel men’s football team will participate in the UEFA Nations League this autumn despite clear eviden...
Defense minister Israel Katz said Israel won't withdraw from Gaza's Yellow Line while Hamas remains in power; threatened third round of strikes on Iran
Israel has issued three military orders to remove wild vegetation and uproot trees from 339 dunams (83.8 acres) of Palestinian land in the northern and central West Bank, a Palestinian commission said Tuesday, Anadolu reports. One order targets 178.71 dunams (44.2 acres) of land in Jenin and Qabatiya in the northern West Bank and calls for the removal of wild vegetation and olive trees, the Palest...
Paris authorized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plane to fly through French airspace Tuesday as he traveled to New York for the UN General Assembly, according to a diplomatic source, Anadolu reports. “This is the fifth time. It is time to put an end to this France that humiliates itself and tramples on international law,” European Parliament member Emma Fourreau said on US social medi...
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday that he discussed negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Anadolu reports. “We discussed negotiations for the reopening of Hormuz,” Tajani said in a post on US social media platform X. He said a memorandum reached in June had demonstrated ...
Syria’s ruling HTS regime has reportedly turned down a formal request from Saudi Arabia to dispatch combatants to the kingdom to help counter advancing Yemeni Armed Forces.
The Israeli military continues to carry out strikes on towns and villages across southern Lebanon.
President Herzog's pardoning of Elor Azaria is hardly a surprise to anyone who has been watching the Israeli public's response to extrajudicial and vigilante killings of Palestinians, which continue to be carried out and captured on film
Pro-Palestinian activists in Brazil temporarily covered a street sign bearing the name “Estado de Israel” (State of Israel) in São Paulo with a sticker reading “Free Palestine, from the river to the sea,” as part of a protest in solidarity with Palestinians. Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila participated in the action on Sunday. Images circulated online showed a sticker designed to resemble São Paul...
Mojtaba, a three-day-old Iranian infant killed with his family during the recent war, became a symbol of the civilian toll of the US-Israeli war on Iran, and is remembered through Parisa Rashidi’s painting inspired by the events of Ashura.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says Israeli military forces have carried out 1,068 incursions into southern Syria since the fall of Assad’s government in early December 2024.
Gaza forms a new national committee to defend Palestinian prisoners’ rights amid intensifying Israeli repression in its jails.
Settlers reportedly vandalized homes and vehicles and clashed with Palestinians overnight; Israeli forces raided several West Bank locations as the closure of Ramallah continued
For years, Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen left a trail of destruction across the country, with civilians paying the heaviest price.
The international community avoided resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and instead chose to manage it, Jordan’s King Abdullah II said on Tuesday during a speech at the UN General Assembly, Anadolu reports. “For decades I stood before this assembly and warned of the dangers of leaving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict unresolved. But the international community chose to manage the conflict, ...
Russia’s state arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, publicly displayed two new air-launched weapons, the S-71M and S-71K, alongside the Su-57E stealth fighter at the El Alamein International Airshow in Egypt from September […]
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin asserted that up to 1,600 Ukrainian drones heading toward Russia were intercepted by air defense systems.
Iran said Tuesday that US- and Israeli-linked commercial vessels seized during the war in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf will be sold with the proceeds distributed to families affected by the conflict. Hassan Abdollianpour, head of the judiciary’s Center for Lawyers, said a number of US and Israeli vessels had been seized in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf “under judicial rulings,” according ...
The Iranian armed forces’ Khatam al-Anbia Central Command has warned the US and regional countries that any mistake could make them targets of the country’s painful attacks.
Yemen’s military leaders warn of a decisive response to continued Saudi attacks.
Responding to an article published by The New Yorker, Qatar said that the financial aid it provided has been directed to Palestinian civilians in Gaza 'through mechanisms coordinated with the Israeli authorities and international partners'
The comments follow a Monday CNN interview with Mamdani, where the mayor again called for Netanyahu’s arrest warrant, issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), to be honored.