Security

Saudi Air Force advanced F-15SA fighter jets. (AFP)

Middle East

Yemen Tensions Mount as Saudi Air Strikes Hit STC Forces in Hadramawt

The photo shows smoke rises from the Alawite mosque in Homs. (Photo: SANA)

Syria

Explosion Hits Mosque in Syrian City of Homs, Leaving Three Dead

Lebanese army soldiers stand next to the wreckage of a car that was trageted in an Israli air strike in Mazraat al Qnaitra on Dec. 22, 2025. (AFP)

Middle East

Israeli Airstrikes Target Hezbollah Depots and Infrastructure in Lebanon as Ceasefire Tensions Mount

U.S. President Donald Trump. (Photo: AFP)

World

U.S. Launches Christmas Day Airstrikes on ISIS Targets in Nigeria, Trump Says

Iranian Navy deploying its 34th flotilla of warships to the international waters in the Gulf, April, 2015. (Photo: Tasnim)

Iran

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Seize Oil Tanker in Gulf Amid Rising Fuel Smuggling Tensions

Member of the Syrian internal security forces standing guard while arresting the ISIS leader in Rural Damascus. (Photo: SANA)

Syria

Syrian Security Arrests Damascus ISIS Leader in Targeted Operation Near the Capital

Two Royal Jordanian Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons. (Photo: Jordanian Air Force webpage)

Syria

Jordan Launches Airstrikes Against Drug Trafficking Networks in Southern Syria

A general view of France's national postal service, La Poste, in Paris, Aug. 23, 2025. (AP)

Europe

Pro-Russian Hackers Disrupt French National Postal Service in Pre-Christmas Cyberattack

People walk under Christmas decorations at Los Proceres boulevard in Caracas on December 19, 2025. (AFP)

World

Venezuela Gripped by Fear of U.S. War as Maduro Warns Washington Seeks His Ouster

Turkish Chief of General Staff General Selcuk Bayraktaroglu (L) and Libyan Chief of General Staff General Muhammad Ali Al-Haddad (C) saluting during an official ceremony in Ankara, Dec. 23, 2025. (AFP)

Middle East

Libya Army Chief Among Eight Killed in Business Jet Crash Near Ankara

Turkish emergency teams are searching for a rescue of the missing plane. (Photo: AA)

Turkey

Turkey Says Private Jet Carrying Libyan Army Chief Missing in Turkish Airspace

Lieutenant General Issa Ozer, Chief of Staff of the KRG's Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs (right) shaking hands with General Luciano Portolano, Chief of Staff of the Italian Army, Dec. 23, 2025. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Italian Army Chief of Defense Visits Erbil, Reaffirms Support for Peshmerga Reforms

The five ISIS members that got arrest in Deir al-Zor. (Photo: SDF Press)

Syria

In Joint Operation, SDF and Coalition Dismantle ISIS Cell in Deir al-Zor

The logos of the SDF (R) and the Syrian Interim Government (left) frame a map highlighting the contested Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods in Aleppo. (Graphic: Kurdistan24)

Syria

Amid Ceasefire, Kurdish Neighborhoods in Aleppo Descends Into Darkness as Sides Trade Blame

Surrounded by his top national security aides, U.S. President Donald Trump speaks, at his Mar-a-Lago club, in Palm Beach, Dec. 22, 2025. (AP)

USA

Trump Issues Forceful New Warning to Maduro as US Escalates Tanker Interdictions

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance tour the U.S. military's Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, March 28, 2025. (AP)

USA

Trump Says US ‘Needs’ Greenland for National Security, Citing Russian and Chinese Arctic Presence