The mother of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, hopes that a film about...
- The 10-member SCO said they also strongly condemned US and Israeli strikes on Iran in June, in the statement issued...
TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran's top court has ordered the retrial of a third man reportedly sentenced to death over nationwide protests,...The Islamic republic has been rocked by protests since the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini.
Iranian officials say hundreds of people have been killed in the unrest, including members of the security forces, and thousands have been arrested.
United Nations, US--The UN General Assembly on Friday asked the International Court of Justice to consider consequences for Israel over its...The General Assembly voted 87-26 with 53 abstentions on the resolution, with Western nations split but virtually unanimous support in the Islamic world
The United States, Britain and Germany opposed the resolution, while France abstained
Medical sources confirmed the casualty toll from the attack, for which there was no immediate claim of responsibility. In the...Two cars approached a checkpoint in a residential neighbourhood of the city and two armed assailants opened fire at the policemen
The source said the attack was likely a "terrorist act", describing it as the first of its kind in nearly three years in mainland Egypt
Hundreds of Syrians in the rebel-held north protested against signs of a thaw between Ankara and Damascus after their defense...The demonstration comes after the Syrian, Turkish and Russian defense ministers met in Moscow.
The meeting was just the latest sign of a thaw in relations between Damascus and Ankara - the key backer of opposition forces in war-torn Syria.
- TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran has summoned the Italian ambassador to protest "interventionist" policies, the foreign ministry said late Thursday, a day...
The Islamic republic has been gripped by protests since the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd.
Iran says hundreds of people have been killed in the unrest, including members of the security forces, and thousands have been arrested nationwide.
BEIRUT, LEBANON -  An attack in eastern Syria killed 10 oil field workers, state news agency SANA reported on Friday, a...In addition to 10 dead, two others have been wounded in a terrorist attack that targeted three buses transporting workers from al-Taim oil field, state media said.
The agency did not provide any information on the nature of the attack in the Kurdish-held area or who may be behind it,
Israel's hawkish veteran Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as prime minister after a stint in opposition, heading what analysts call...Netanyahu, 73, who is fighting corruption charges in court, already served as premier longer than anyone in Israeli history, leading the country from 1996-1999 and 2009-2021
Netanyahu was ousted in June 2021 by a motley coalition of leftists, centrists and Arab parties headed by Naftali Bennett and former TV news anchor Yair Lapid.
Jerusalem-- Israel's newly sworn-in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has granted major concessions to far-right and ultra-Orthodox allies to cement a...Bezalel Smotrich, head of the extreme-right Religious Zionism formation, will oversee civilian affairs in the occupied West Bank.
Government recognition of illegal outposts established in the West Bank without government approval within 60 days.
- DUBAI, UAE - A Dubai court Thursday authorized the extradition of a British national wanted over an alleged 1.7 billion...
Hedge fund trader Sanjay Shah was arrested in Dubai in June, but the emirate's Court of Appeal in September rejected an extradition request by Denmark.
Shah is accused of running a scheme for three years from 2012 in which foreign firms pretended to own shares in Danish companies and claimed tax refunds.
Paris-born activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala was sentenced to life in jail without the possibility of parole in April on...Kavala was first charged with funding the wave of 2013 protests that some analysts view as the genesis of Erdogan's more authoritarian posture in the latter half of his two-decade
He was best known as a soft-spoken businessman who was spending part of his wealth to promote culture and projects aimed at reconciling Turkey and its arch-nemesis Armenia
