Here are Press TV's latest top stories at16:00 GMT on December 9, 2025.

Pakistani and Afghan have agreed to a temporary 48-hour ceasefire after days of deadly clashes.

Fierce overnight clashes reportedly erupt along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Heavy clashes have erupted in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region over the arrest of an opposition figure, leaving three security forces killed and 19 others wounded in the northern city of Sulaymaniyah.

Various Arab tribes in northern Syria have put forth statements demanding a “general mobilization” against the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed group of Kurdish militants. 

US security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.

HTS-aligned militants have occupied parts of a Lebanese border town, ransacking homes.