Three killed in Israeli bombing near Unrwa school in Jabalia camp Three Palestinians were killed and others injured on Tuesday after an Israeli drone attack in the vicinity of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) school sheltering displaced people in Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wafa news reported.
Geneva [Switzerland], August 25 (ANI): With regional conflicts putting global trade routes at navigational risk, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for strict adherence to international law and an immediate halt to attacks targeting commercial shipping and civilian infrastructure.
Israeli air strikes target towns in southern Lebanon Israeli air strikes have targeted al-Mansouri and the town of Sarbin in southern Lebanon, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reported on Tuesday. The NNA added that continuous artillery shelling by Israeli forces have caused fires along the Litani River and in the Marjayoun plains near the town of Deir Mimas, which Lebanese first responders are struggling to contain. Meanwhile, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said 4,350 people have been killed in the country since Israel launched attacks on March 2.
Syria condemns Israeli minister's 'illegal' visit to country's south Syria condemned a visit by Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday to troops in the country's south where he vowed to keep forces while "threats" persisted. Syria "condemns the illegal entry today of Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz and his crossing of the international border ... in flagrant violation of the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity", a foreign ministry statement said, urging the international community to take "the necessary measures to force the occupying authorities to halt these repeated violations".
Washington DC [US], August 25 (ANI): US President Donald Trump's popularity has hit a record low as Washington remains engaged in the prolonged conflict with Iran, with the American public's approval of the conflict falling to its lowest level, a poll by Reuters Ipsos analysed on Monday.
Iran has closed the vital waterway since the beginning of the conflict causing wild fluctuations in oil prices worldwide.
War on Iran: Left-wing luminaries behind Guardian letter have lost the plot Submitted by Hamid Dabashi on Tue, 08/25/2026 - 06:27 By equating the bombers with the bombed, the appeal signed by Angela Davis and Judith Butler lends moral cover to western imperialism - and its backers are already deserting it A man amid debris in a room in Evin prison's hospital after Israeli air strikes in Tehran on 1 July 2025 (AFP) On In an open letter published last week in the Guardian, addressed to "fellow activists, students, thinkers, workers, artists, and other prisoners of conscience held behind the walls of all detention centers across Iran", a group of renowned academics and activists resorted to the nauseating cliche of bothsidesism over the devastating war waged against Iran by two nuclear powers. One of the aggressors is still engaged in a genocide in Palestine and land theft in Syria and Lebanon , while the other is ruled by a corrupt psychopath. In prose replete with platitudinous tropes, all outdated and jaundiced, betraying an egregious ignorance of what exactly has happened, they denounce both the ruling government in Iran and the illegal Israeli- US war waged against a sovereign nation.
Israeli forces to remain in Syria-Lebanon border area, says defence minister Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Israeli forces will continue occupying the Jabal al-Sheikh area (Mount Hermon) along the Syria-Lebanon border for “as long as there are threats” in order to “ensure our security”. During a visit to the area, Katz said that the forces “look down on Damascus, 35 kilometres away; look down on the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon and Hezbollah’s stronghold; and, of course, watch over and protect the communities of the Golan Heights and the Galilee”, according to Israel National News. “The message is clear to the president of Syria as well: When you wake up in the morning in your palace in Damascus and look up at Mount Hermon and see the [Israeli army], you know that we are here to protect our communities and our border,” Katz said.
Trump says US removed all mines from Strait of Hormuz US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that all mines within the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz had been removed or detonated, and that Iran had been notified that any ship or boat placing new mines would be "immediately and systematically destroyed". “There is a Zero Tolerance policy on mine placement in full force and effect,” Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social.
Israeli lawmaker smashes Palestinian memorial in occupied West Bank Submitted by Nadav Rapaport on Tue, 08/25/2026 - 15:13 Zvi Sukkot used a sledgehammer to destroy the monument near Nablus, despite the Israeli army saying the demolition was not authorised People inspect the damaged Palestinian memorial at the Madama village in the northern West Bank on 25 August 2026 (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP) Off An Israeli Knesset member smashed a Palestinian memorial in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, prompting condemnation. Zvi Sukkot, a member of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party, was filmed smashing the Palestinian Martyrs' Monument in the village of Madama, south of Nablus, with a sledgehammer. In a video posted to Facebook, Sukkot said the memorial commemorated two Palestinians who had killed Israelis and argued that it could not be allowed to remain.
An Israeli strike on Monday killed a four-year-old boy, while a 10-year-old girl was hit by a bullet inside her tent, according to medics and relatives.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Local committees in Gaza warned parents against allowing their children to fly kites after the Israeli regime threatened to kill children for doing so in the besieged enclave.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Israeli regime began demolishing the premises of the UNRWA Kalandia Training Center in occupied East al-Quds on Tuesday, deploying armored vehicles in an unauthorized entry that UNRWA condemned as a violation of the facility’s international protections.
Israeli forces raid Unrwa centres serving 16,000 Palestinian refugees Israeli forces have stormed Unrwa vocational centres in Qalandiya and Kufr Aqab that serve about 16,000 Palestinian refugees across the occupied West Bank. The raids follow Israel’s assault on Unrwa’s headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem several months ago, when forces expelled staff and demolished sections of the building. Israel could intensify its attacks on the UN agency before October’s elections as far-right ministers press to dismantle Unrwa and other organisations serving Palestinians.
Experts warn that a campaign aimed at avoiding military escalation could instead provoke it, as Iranian leaders vow retaliation across the oil-rich Gulf.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Israeli regime disrupted a Palestinian university graduation ceremony in occupied East Al-Quds on Monday and detained several attendees, as Israeli occupiers injured three Palestinians and carried out raids and attacks across the occupied West Bank.
The drones failed to deliver a strategic breakthrough, Russian forces are advancing, and Western Europe is still refusing to confront what comes next As recently as July 26 of this year, Ursula von der Leyen appeared full of confidence in victory during her visit to Kiev. She claimed the tide of the war had turned, that Ukraine had regained the initiative, and that Russia was on the defensive.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Attacks by Israeli settlers across the occupied West Bank surged 63% from January through July compared with the same period last year, according to a Palestinian government agency on Monday.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Israeli regime has killed more than 21,500 Palestinian children and targeted 1,244 of the Gaza Strip’s 1,275 mosques since launching its war on the besieged enclave in October 2023, the Gaza Government Media Office said Monday.
The Iran war was supposed to expose China’s weakness on oil, but it didn’t quite work out that way.
