The Islamic Iran Nation’s Union Party sought the release of secretary-general Azar Mansouri, the Shargh newspaper said on Monday, after her arrest along with other members of the Reform Front, an umbrella body of Iranian reformists and moderates.
Trente-sept enfants ont été tués à Gaza cette année, tandis que le système scolaire est quasiment anéanti. Israël approuve des mesures d’expansion des colonies en Cisjordanie, et la Palestine demande une réunion urgente de la Ligue arabe en réponse. Le Premier ministre israélien, Benjamin Netanyahu, s’entretiendra cette semaine à Washington avec le président américain Donald Trump au sujet de l’Iran. Un homme du Minnesota a été grièvement blessé lors d’une arrestation controversée par l’ICE. Le DHS a utilisé les données de Google pour suivre un homme qui avait envoyé un courriel à un procureur au sujet d’une demande d’asile. Les membres du Congrès vont commencer à examiner les documents Epstein non expurgés. Des courriels d’Epstein font état d’une rencontre avec Mohammed ben Salmane quelques jours avant l’assassinat de Jamal Khashoggi. Cuba avertit les compagnies aériennes d’une pénurie imminente de kérosène, alors que la pression américaine sur le secteur de l’énergie s’intensifie. La Turquie arrête des membres présumés d’une cellule d’espionnage israélienne ciblant les Palestiniens et leurs chaînes d’approvisionnement. L’Éthiopie exige le retrait des troupes érythréennes, mettant en garde contre une dangereuse escalade. Des frappes israéliennes dans le sud du Liban ont tué quatre personnes, dont un enfant de trois ans. Des tirs de drones et de missiles russes ont tué des civils et provoqué des coupures de courant en Ukraine. Des dizaines de personnes sont portées disparues et présumées mortes après le naufrage d’une embarcation de migrants au large des côtes libyennes. L’Iran alourdit de plus de sept ans la peine de prison de Narges Mohammadi, lauréate du prix Nobel. Des charniers ont été découverts sur le campus universitaire soudanais utilisé par les RSF pendant les combats. Des dissensions internes au sein du parti au pouvoir au Venezuela font état de tensions suite à la capture de Nicolás Maduro, selon un nouveau rapport.
Declassified files expose how the UK has tried to control Venezuela’s oil for over a century, seeking to thwart nationalisation through political pressure, propaganda, and covert operations.
In October 2001, two years into his presidency, Hugo Chávez made a trip to London to meet with then UK prime minister Tony Blair and other high-level officials.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government is facing intense criticism over its failure to swiftly outlaw Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The development comes as a London-based Islamic center has been accused of selling merchandise supporting terrorism.
“[T]he document outlines an operational framework in which the technocratic government appears to function, while the actual management of systems, the flow of information, and control over the civil administration remain in Hamas’s hands.” – Elior Levy, Channel 11 Kan News, February 2, 2026.
Hamas wants Trump’s Board of Peace and the technocratic committee to focus on reconstruction, economic projects, and paying salaries to Palestinian civil servants while it continues, through a shadow government, to effectively rule the Gaza Strip, manufacture stockpile weaponry and prepare for a new attack on Israel, similar to its October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel’s southern communities.
It’s plausible that this is part of Turkiye’s preparations for a campaign against Somaliland carried out under the banner of the nascent “Islamic NATO” that’s rapidly forming around Saudi Arabia.
The Middle East Eye reported that Turkiye’s deployment of three F-16s to Mogadishu “aims to protect Turkish energy and space port investments”. They also cited an official Turkish statement reaffirming Somalia’s territorial integrity amidst Israel’s recognition of Somaliland and pledging support in the fight against terrorism in a hint that it plans to play a greater role in such missions there. The outlet added that Turkiye already has armed drones and attack helicopters in Mogadishu too.
The National’s interviews with residents, local officials and commanders reveal a complex picture of a scarred city
Entering Sweida, the southern heartland of Syria’s Druze community, feels like crossing into another country.
Amid the present ceasefire, Gaza finds itself divided between territory that remains under Hamas’ control and territory occupied by Israeli forces where a number of anti-Hamas armed groups backed by Israel also operate.
The anti-Hamas factions are often dismissed as simply being opportunistic criminals or accused of being ‘ISIS-linked.’ I find the latter in particular to be unconvincing: at most, what the various allegations show so far (if assumed to be true) is that some members of these groups were previously members of Islamic State or Islamic State-linked, not that the groups themselves are presently affiliated with or linked to the Islamic State. In any event, their orientation and actions wholly contradict the Islamic State’s outlook, which rejects all notions of Palestinian nationalism or collaboration with Israel and insists on a worldwide religious war against Jews.
As for the former suggestion, it is often used to imply that the anti-Hamas groups somehow do not have any real political motivations. But there is no reason to think that (assumed for this purpose) criminal activity is somehow mutually exclusive from political motivation. As an analogy, consider the case of Hezbollah. It is credibly accused of involvement in criminal activity on an international scale, but that does not mean the group is somehow insincere in its belief that it upholds and represents Shia interests in Lebanon, or that it does not really oppose Israel’s existence.
In a similar vein, it seems credible to me that these anti-Hamas factions genuinely oppose the group’s rule over Gaza, believe that Hamas’ approach has brought disaster upon the Palestinians and the Palestinian cause, and genuinely think that a pragmatic approach towards Israel is the best way forward. It is at least worth talking to them to try to understand their motivations and reasoning.
Below is an interview I recently conducted with Hussam al-Astl, who commands one such anti-Hamas group that calls itself the ‘Counter-Terrorism Strike Force’. The interview was conducted on 28 December 2025 and is slightly edited and condensed for clarity.
Ce qui n’était au départ qu’une progression lente des colons s’est transformé ces trois dernières années en une campagne d’expulsion massive soutenue par l’État.
AL-MAGHAYYER, Cisjordanie occupée – En l’espace de quatre ans, Fidda Mohammad Naasan, 50 ans, et sa famille ont été violemment déracinées de leurs maisons et de leurs terres en Cisjordanie occupée, non pas une, mais deux fois. Après avoir été relogées une seconde fois, elles continuent de subir quotidiennement des attaques et des mauvais traitements incessants de la part de colons et de soldats israéliens déterminés à les chasser de leurs terres une fois de plus.
The plea from Iran’s regime is clearly a last-ditch effort to hold on to power so the mullahs can keep on torturing, slaughtering and putting out the eyes of their citizens.
Whenever Iran’s regime feels weak, it discovers “negotiations.” In Shia Islam, you are told that if “Islam” is being threatened, you are to practice dissimulation (taqiyya). For Iran’s mullahs, “talks” have always been a tactic to buy time, reduce pressure, and strengthen their hand.