TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Thousands of mourners have attended funeral services in Iran for pilgrims killed in a stampede during last month's hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. A ceremony at Tehran University on Sunday was one of several held for dozens of victims whose remains were flown back to Iran ...
Ceremonies took place across Iran on Sunday to honour citizens killed in a stampede at the hajj, as a second plane returned the bodies of 114 pilgrims from Saudi Arabia./ The latest repatriation of corpses from the giant September 24 crush came after 104 bodies were brought home on Saturday, ...
Muslim pilgrims gather around the bodies of people crushed in Mina, Saudi Arabia during the annual hajj pilgrimage on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015./ Iran is welcoming a plane carrying home the first group of Iranian pilgrims killed in last week's stampede during the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage in ...
The first plane carrying the bodies of some of the 464 Iranian pilgrims killed in a haj stampede in Saudi Arabia has landed in Tehran. Rough cut (no reporter narration)./ ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION The first plane carrying the bodies of Iranian pilgrims killed in a haj stampede landed in ...
An honour guard carries the caskets of Iranian pilgrims killed in a stampede at the annual hajj, on their arrival on October 3, 2015 at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Tehran (AFP) - The first bodies of Iranian pilgrims killed in a stampede at the annual hajj arrived home ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The first plane carrying bodies of Iranian pilgrims killed in the hajj stampede in Saudi Arabia arrived in Tehran Saturday, nine days after the disaster that escalated tensions between the two regional rivals. President Hassan Rouhani and other senior officials were at the ...
Iranian women protest outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran on September 27, 2015, four days after the deadly hajj stampede (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Dubai (AFP) - Saudi authorities have yet to provide a breakdown of the nationalities of the 769 Muslim pilgrims they say were killed in the hajj ...
Iranians will march in a procession to say goodbye to the bodies of 104 pilgrims killed during a stampede in Mecca on September 24. The goodbye ceremony will be held at the University of Tehran main campus and the bodies will be sent from there to their hometowns. So far 465 Iranians have been ...
President Hassan Rouhani will attend on Saturday the ceremony to be held for the first batch of the corpses of the dead Iranian Hajj pilgrims who were killed in Mina tragedy in Mecca last Thursday, The ceremony for the dead Iranian Hajj pilgrims is slated for Saturday at the presence of ...
Hamas' military wing stands guard during a search for the bodies of hostages/ Hamas has handed over three coffins it says contain the bodies of deceased Gaza hostages, according to the Israeli military. Israel has received the coffins, via the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip, and transported them to ...
The new museum will show all of the artefacts discovered by Howard Carter and his team in the tomb of Tutankhamun/ Near one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza - Egypt is officially opening what it intends as a cultural highlight of the modern age. The ...
right protesters broke into Sde Teiman base after military police questioned reservists over the video/ The Israeli military's top lawyer has resigned after saying that she was responsible for the leaking of a video that purportedly shows soldiers sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee last ...
Red Cross staff transferred the two coffins to Israeli forces in Gaza/ Israel has received via the Red Cross in Gaza two coffins which the Palestinian armed group Hamas says contain the bodies of deceased hostages, according to the Israeli prime minister's office. Israeli forces will now ...
Footage shows scale of ultra-Orthodox protest against conscription/ Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israelis are taking part in a protest in Jerusalem against changes to a legal exemption for religious students from conscription in the military. Almost all sects and factions of ...
The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to "dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure" (file photo)/ Israeli troops carried out an incursion into a south Lebanese town overnight, killing a municipal employee, state media report, amid an escalation of Israeli attacks in Lebanon. The ...
First responders say Israel's overnight strikes hit residential areas, schools and tents housing displaced families/ When is a ceasefire no longer a ceasefire? It depends on who you ask. According to US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, "nothing is going to jeopardise" the truce between ...
Four people were killed in an Israeli strike in Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza/ At least 104 Palestinians were killed in a wave of Israeli strikes in Gaza on Tuesday night, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry says. The Israeli military said it struck "dozens of terror targets and ...
by the Israeli army three years ago alleges that new revelations from an American military officer who investigated her killing reveals a US cover-up. Tony Abu Akleh's comments come after the New York Times reported that a US colonel said he concluded in 2022 that Ms Abu Akleh, a ...
Efforts are continuing to find the bodies of the hostages that are still in Gaza/ Israel has received, through the Red Cross, a coffin that Hamas says contains the body of another deceased hostage held in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops had taken the coffin from Gaza back ...