Supporters in Tehran cheer for the Iranian national team during a screening of its World Cup match against Spain on June 20. (AFP/Getty Images)/ On Friday, 18 influential Iranian women living in the West, published an to FIFA calling on the organization that governs international soccer to help ...
known Iranian women, including famous writers, artists, and human rights lawyers, have written an open letter to the International Football Association (FIFA), asking it to demand Iran to lift its ban on women attending sports stadiums. were permitted to go to a football stadium to watch their ...
In an open letter, prominent women of Iranian origin including Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, Oscar-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo and legendary singer Googoosh have urged the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to demand that Iran end its discriminatory ban on women in ...
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 ...
Released Israeli hostage Evyatar David gestures to crowds as he returns to his home in Kfar Saba, central Israel/ The father of a released Israeli hostage who was forced to dig his own grave in a Gazan tunnel by Hamas has told the BBC his son's health is "improving every day". Avishai David was ...