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 ...
Destruction following the Israeli attack on Zeitoun on 8 August/ Gaza City has come under intense air attack, the territory's Hamas-run civil defence agency has said, as Israeli forces prepare to launch an operation to take over the city. Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman, said the residential areas of ...
"A journalist for the people in Gaza": Al Jazeera's managing editor's tribute to Anas al-Sharif/ Five Al Jazeera journalists were killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Sunday - among them 28-year-old correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who had reported prominently on the war since its outset. ...
Australia's prime minister has accused his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu of being "in denial" over the consequences of the war in Gaza. Anthony Albanese on Monday announced his country would recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, following similar moves ...
Palestinians attend the funeral of journalists killed in an Israeli strike/ The UN's human rights office has condemned a targeted Israeli attack that killed six journalists in Gaza, calling it a "grave breach" of international humanitarian law. Five Al Jazeera journalists, including prominent ...
Sharif had reported extensively from northern Gaza, Al Jazeera said/ Five Al Jazeera journalists including prominent reporter Anas al-Sharif have been killed in a targeted Israeli strike near Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital. Al-Sharif and another correspondent, Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with ...
Meir Simcha agreed to talk, but he wanted to do it somewhere special, because for him, this is a special time. In a place where nation, religion and war are linked inextricably with politics and the possession of land, Simcha chose a patch of shade under a fig tree next to a spring of fresh ...
Gazans carry aid packages from a food distribution point in Zikim in the northern Gaza Strip/ A further 11 deaths resulting from malnutrition have been reported in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. That brings the total number of malnutrition-related deaths to 212, including 98 ...
About one million people still live in Gaza City, which has already seen widespread damage due to Israeli bombardment/ News of the Israeli government's decision to take over Gaza City is being met not surprisingly with despair in Gaza. Gaza City, its capital, is on a countdown to oblivion. ...
Demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv on Thursday while the Israeli security cabinet convened/ has been met with concern in Israel, particularly by families of hostages still being held by Hamas. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum: Bring Them Home Now has said the plan "means abandoning ...
'Chilling' aerial video shows Gaza in ruins/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel intends to take control of all of the Gaza Strip, ahead of a key meeting where ministers are now deciding whether to back such a move. Netanyahu affirmed the intention in an interview with Fox ...