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 ...
Four people were injured in a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, Israel's emergency services said. Ichilov Hospital said it was treating three of the victims, including one with "a serious condition with a knife wound to the neck". The assailant, a 28-year-old foreign national, was shot ...
Lt Gen Herzi Halevi (L) called for a commission of inquiry into the 7 October 2023 attack/ Israel's military chief has resigned, saying he recognised his responsibility for its failure on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian armed group Hamas carried out a deadly attack on the country that ...
Israel's prime minister said the operation aimed to "defeat terrorism" in Jenin/ At least eight Palestinians have been killed and 35 injured by Israeli security forces during a major operation in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says. Israel's Prime Minister ...
Palestinians walk past the rubble of houses and buildings in central Gaza/ On the first full day of peace in Gaza on Monday, rescue workers and civilians began to reckon with the sheer scale of the destruction to the Strip. Gaza's Civil Defence agency – the strip's main emergency response ...
Emily (left) spent 471 days in captivity, while her mother Mandy (right) campaigned for her release/ British-Israeli national Emily Damari says she "came back to life" in her first comments since being released from captivity in Gaza. The 28-year-old was shot in the hand and dragged from her ...
Debra Tice said she had "no idea" where her son was following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria/ The mother of US journalist Austin Tice, abducted in Syria while on a reporting trip in 2012 and one of the longest-held American hostages, has returned to the country for the first time ...
Since the war started the job had become his life. Many of the people being bombed were his neighbours, people he'd grown up with. Hatem Al-Atar, 25, wasn't married. His bravery was not reckless, or born of ignorance. He knew he could die any second. until now were difficult. Every second in ...
The task ahead is daunting for Gazans wishing to return to the shattered ruins of their homes. There is relief the fighting has stopped, but for the survivors there is little left for them to go back to.
Doron Steinbrecher, one of the Israeli hostages released on Sunday, is handed over by Hamas fighters to a Red Cross official in Gaza City/ After 15 months of war that began with a brutal attack on Israel by Hamas and ended with much of the Gaza Strip levelled by Israel, a ceasefire came into ...
Emily Damari can be seen smiling as she hugs her mother as they speak on a video call after her release/ It is a smile that says she is free. Emily Damari hugs her mother, both of them radiating joy while on a video call with her brother. The family at last reunited after the darkness of her ...