• EditorsPick

    Silent Victims of War

    Co-workers of a street sweeper in Tehran who was killed in a missile attack held her funeral in their uniforms.(Photo: Marzieh Mousavi) By Alireza BahramiTEHRAN: People must have been saturated with news about Trump and Netanyahu’s attack on Iran by now.In the dense volume of news about any war, the…

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    War Journalism at Home!

    A woman was walking on the street near the news agency with her husband when he was killed by shrapnel from a rocket attack.People laid flowers at the scene of his death and a memorial was erected.(Photo: Alireza Bahrami) By Alireza BahramiTEHRAN: A group of Iranian journalists experienced being in…

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    Arab Voices Clash Over the U.S.-Israel-Iran War, Future of the Middle East

    German Ambassador to Bahrain Ambassador Henning Simon offering his condolences to the family of Sara Dashti, the 29-year-old Bahrain killed in a drone attack while she was sitting with friends By Habib ToumiMANAMA: A lively debate has erupted across Arab social media over the implications of the U.S.–Israeli war on…

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  • West Asia

    Lives Cut Short: Migrant Workers Among Dead in Drone, Missile Attacks Across UAE

    Alaa’s father being condoled on the death of his daughter By Habib Toumi MANAMA: Six foreign nationals — including three Pakistanis, one Palestinian, one Bangladeshi, and one Nepalese — have been killed in Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting the United Arab Emirates (UAE), highlighting the growing civilian toll of…

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  • West Asia

    Kuwait Arrests Hezbollah-Linked Terrorist Cell

    KUWAIT: A terrorist group linked to the banned terrorist organization (Hezbollah) has been arrested, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior has announced. In a press release, the ministry said that the terrorist cell was seeking to destabilize the country’s security and to recruit individuals to join the terrorist organization. Security investigations revealed…

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  • West Asia

    Civilians Continue to Bear Brunt of Appalling Middle East War

    Funeral prayers for Sara Dashti By Habib Toumi MANAMA: In the Qur’an, the holy book of Muslims, there are verses that stand as a timeless reminder that every human life carries inherent dignity and value, and that no act of oppression or injustice—especially against the most vulnerable—escapes divine scrutiny. Those…

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  • West Asia

    A Problem Called Trump and Oil!

    A missile attack on a Shahran gasoline depot in Tehran. This scene was repeated in several Iranian cities.(Photo: Vahid) By Alireza Bahrami TEHRAN: President Donald Trump, by attacking Iran, made a decision that five presidents before him had not made. The decision, he said, was made to prevent Iran from…

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  • West Asia

    When Drones, Missiles Replace Late-Night Laughter recommended by Kim Hyung-gon

    Kim Hyung-gon who died 20 years ago at the age of 45 in late years pictures(Photo: en.namu.wiki) By Habib Toumi MANAMA: “Late-night television should be comedy so that people can fall asleep smiling. Late-night television should be comedy so that people can fall asleep smiling. We should have a Day…

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    One Week Into the War: The Battle of Rage and Reason

    The condition of cars parked in front of a bombed building in Tehran(Photo: Alireza Bahrami) By Alireza Bahrami,Correspondent for AsiaN TEHRAN: While a week has passed since the Israeli and US attacks on Iran and Iran’s defensive-offensive response that embroiled Arab countries in the war, the challenge of anger-reason has…

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    War Came to Our Tower at 2:11 a.m

    Flat burning after it was struck by a drone (Photo: Samira Danouni) By Habib Toumi MANAMA: My brush with death on the seventh day of the war in the Middle East came at 2:11 a.m. on Friday. An Iranian Shahed kamikaze drone struck a flat about six meters from ours…

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