In the first days of the new year, ISIS carried out sabotage attacks in several US states. Cem Küçük, a columnist for the Turkish newspaper, called the attacks a provocation - a conspiracy against Trump's plan to withdraw US troops from Syria. "How could such an attack happen in the US, which has an annual defense budget of $2.5 trillion and is very well protected? Or was it the CIA and the Pentagon that did it?" he asked.

Saudi Arabia has executed six Iranians for drug trafficking. The Saudi ambassador to Tehran was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry after the executions were carried out without notifying the Iranian embassy.

Violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinians reached a record high in 2024. The UN recorded 1,400 attacks on Arabs by residents of illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Dozens of Qatari residents and visitors were hospitalized after being injured in a traffic jam following a New Year's Eve concert and fireworks display.

A 42-year-old man drove a car into a crowd celebrating New Year's Eve in New Orleans, USA, and then opened fire. The incident killed 15 people and injured 30. The shooter was also shot dead by police. The killer is said to have links to ISIS.

In the Iranian capital, Tehran, natural gas supplies have been cut off to 272 government institutions for failing to comply with energy conservation regulations. According to the rule, the temperature in government buildings should not exceed 18 degrees Celsius. Boilers and heating systems must be turned off one hour before the end of the working day.

The US administration has allocated more than $22 billion in direct military aid to support Israeli attacks that began in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023 and spread to Lebanon and Syria.

It has been 453 days since Israel launched its invasion and war of aggression in the Gaza Strip. Key events that took place in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the entire Middle East over the past 24 hours.

OCCRP (Organization for Reporting Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) has named former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as the "Corrupt Person of the Year 2024."

The Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow has fined Tajik citizen Yakubov A.R. 40,000 rubles and ordered his deportation from Russia for praying at work. The court found Yakubov's actions to be contrary to Russian law, classifying them as propaganda of religious beliefs and missionary activity.