France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office in Paris has requested that the court impose a 1.125 million euro fine on the cement company Lafarge and sentence eight of its former senior executives to prison terms of up to eight years.
A Druze poet and activist who has previously criticised local separatist militias has been shot dead in the east of Syria’s Suweida province
A poet and political activist critical of local authorities was killed in Syria’s Druze-majority Suweida province on Sunday night by unknown assailants.
Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti has been assaulted seven times in Israeli prisons since the start of the Gaza war, according to prisoner rights groups.
Senior Palestinian Fatah leader and longtime prisoner Marwan Barghouti has been subjected to seven “brutal assaults” inside Israeli prisons since the start of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza two years ago, according to Palestinian prisoners’ rights organisations.
Peaceful protesters certainly exist, but in many instances, the same marchers who cry “from the river to the sea” also provide cover, logistics and recruitment spaces for operatives who work closely with Hamas or other terrorist organizations.
Washington Institute experts and former officials lay out the urgent need for clarity on vital questions related to U.S. oversight, the stalled International Stabilization Force, Israel’s red lines, Hamas opposition to multilateral proposals, the contours of the PA’s role, and more.
ISCAP’s collaboration with allies deepened in the DRC, Ethiopia launched its first airstrike against the Tigray Defence Forces since the Pretoria agreement, and violence surged in the Tombouctou region of Mali.
Democratic Republic of Congo: ISCAP’s collaboration with allied armed groups deepens
On December 12, 2025, Prime Minister of Bulgaria Rosen Zhelyazkov resigned after protesters took to the streets in cities across the country and filled the centre of the capital Sofia in the night of December 11. Between 50,000 and 100,000 people turned out in Sofia’s central Triangle of Power and Independence Square, calling for the Government to go. The words “Resignation” and “Mafia Out” were projected onto the Parliament building. Protesters accused Rosen Zhelyazkov’s Government, led by the centre-right GERB [an acronym for Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria] party, in power since January 2025, of widespread corruption. The Government had already scrapped a controversial budget plan for next year, in response to demonstrations the previous week.
Une source gouvernementale bien informée a déclaré au Times of Israel que «le président égyptien Abdel Fattah al-Sissi n’envisage pas actuellement de rencontrer le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahou, malgré les informations faisant état des tentatives de Tel-Aviv pour organiser un éventuel sommet au Caire».
The U.S. capture of a tanker accused of carrying Venezuelan and Iranian oil was not an isolated action. It was an escalation—another step in Washington’s long campaign to strangle the Bolivarian People’s Socialist Democratic Revolution and to punish Iran for refusing submission to U.S. diktat. Within hours, Tehran answered in kind. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a tanker in the Gulf of Oman, once again signalling that the era of one‑way maritime coercion is over. The IRGC boarded the Phoenix, a foreign oil tanker sailing under the flag of the Cook Islands. Iran affirms that the ship lacked proper documentation and was involved in smuggling 2 million litres of diesel fuel. The 17 crew members on board are reportedly from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Local factions in Suwayda renewed attacks on internal security forces affiliated with Syria’s Ministry of Interior, on the province’s western front, on Saturday, 13 December.
Enab Baladi’s correspondent in Daraa (southern Syria) said local factions in Suwayda targeted an internal security vehicle with a bomb-laden drone in the town of al-Mazraa (western Suwayda countryside) on Friday evening, 12 December, then repeated the attack on Saturday.