100,000 CHILDREN IN GAZA TO SUFFER FROM ACUTE MALNUTRITION BY NEXT APRIL: WHO

Sun 28 December 2025: Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that over 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza Strip are still projected to suffer acute malnutrition through April next year. This followed the release by UN agencies of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, […]

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SAUDI COALITION WILL COUNTER YEMEN SEPARATISTS UNDERMINING DE-ESCALATION

Sun 28 December 2025: Saudi defence minister urges Yemen’s STC to withdraw “peacefully” from seized provinces, Hadramout and al-Mahra. The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says it will respond to any separatist military movements that undermine de-escalation efforts in the southern region, as Riyadh doubles down on calls for the group to “peacefully” withdraw from recently […]

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IRAN’S GOVERNMENT BUDGET REVEALS TOUGH ROAD AHEAD AS CURRENCY HITS NEW LOW

Sat 27 December 2025: Prices of basic items like food are only expected to grow over the coming months as Iranians get poorer. Tehran, Iran – Iran’s currency has been registering new lows amid ongoing economic turmoil that is also reflected in a planned budget for next year that effectively shrinks public spending. Each United States […]

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THE ARAB SPRING HASN’T ENDED, AND ARAB REGIMES KNOW IT

Sat 27 December 2025: Fifteen years on, governments have outlawed protest, managed elections, and rewritten constitutions to ensure 2011 never happens again. Exactly 15 years ago, the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia prompted an unprecedented pan-Arab protest movement that demonstrated the overwhelming Arab desire for more democratic forms of government. In extraordinary scenes, millions of protesters […]

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FACT CHECK: IS THERE REALLY AN ISRAELI MILITARY CHECKPOINT IN THE DAMASCUS COUNTRYSIDE?

Sat 27 December 2025: Social media accounts and pages circulated an image of a military checkpoint next to an Israeli flag and a banner that sparked controversy. The image shows Israeli soldiers under a large banner that reads, “Sleep soundly, Muawiyah. Damascus is ours until the Day of Judgment,” alongside the Syrian flag, the phrase […]

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ISRAEL BECOMES FIRST COUNTRY TO RECOGNISE SOMALILAND

Fri 26 December 2025: Breakaway region of Somalia achieves diplomatic breakthrough after more than 30 years without any international recognition. Israel has become the first nation in the world to formally recognise Somaliland, ending the breakaway region’s three-decade quest for international legitimacy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Friday that Israel and Somaliland had signed […]

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ANGER IN ISRAEL AS TURKEY DEPLOYS RADAR SYSTEMS IN SYRIA

Fri 26 December 2025: Tensions are rising between Israel and Turkey over the Turkish presence in Syria. Two Western intelligence sources told i24NEWS on Thursday that Turkey has been working in recent weeks to deploy radar systems inside Syrian territory. The move is expected to significantly limit Israel’s freedom of movement in Syrian airspace. It could also […]

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SAUDI ARABIA URGES YEMEN’S SOUTHERN TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL TO WITHDRAW FORCES FROM HADRAMOUT, MAHRA

Thu 25 December 2025: Saudi Arabia called on forces of Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC) on Thursday to withdraw from the eastern provinces of Hadramout and Al-Mahra, saying recent military moves were carried out “unilaterally” and without coordination with the Yemeni government or the Arab coalition. The STC’s deployments in the two provinces led to “unjustified escalation” that […]

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MAGA IMPLODES: WILL ISRAEL’S POWER OVER WASHINGTON COLLAPSE NEXT?

Thu 25 December 2025: The MAGA empire has turned inward. Its warriors no longer march shoulder to shoulder in lockstep but carve at one another like rival warlords. The movement that once roared in unison now splits along a single, explosive fault line: America First versus Israel First. Two convictions, two armies now face each […]

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NETANYAHU ASKS AIDES TO PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE KNESSET DISSOLUTION, EARLY ELECTIONS: MEDIA

Wed 24 December 2025: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked his aides to prepare for the possible dissolution of the Knesset soon and the holding of early elections, local media reported on Wednesday. The legislative elections are originally set for Oct. 27, 2026, after the completion of the four-year term of the current parliament. […]

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