In this Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018 file photo, Saeid Mollaei of Iran, top, competes against Didar Khamza of Kazakhstan during their men's - 81kg final judo match at the18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. Judo world champion Iran has been banned from international judo competitions for refusing ...
Iran will not be allowed to participate in any international judo competitions until it allows its athletes to face Israelis. The International Judo Federation (IJF) on Tuesday issued an indefinite ban "until the Iran Judo Federation gives strong guarantees and prove that they will respect the ...
Iran was banned from international judo competitions Tuesday for refusing to let its athletes fight Israeli opponents./ The International Judo Federation imposed an indefinite ban on 's team until it promises to end a long-running boycott of The IJF's disciplinary commission said the ban will ...
It was a journey at high speed through the desert - in a pick-up truck with armed fighters in the back. We were travelling with Yemen's pro-government forces, catching glimpses of the Arabian Sea, and forbidding mountain peaks in the distance. Houthi rebels were dislodged from here just days ...
A blast was heard at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh/ Several people have been injured in an attack on an international airport in the Saudi capital, reports say, just days after Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed two successful attacks on the hub. King Khalid International Airport in ...
The Flydubai flight was diverted to Saudi Arabia after passengers managed to take back the aircraft's controls/ The Omani co-pilot who allegedly attempted to hijack a Flydubai plane started a "drift towards extremism and terrorism" while studying in Australia, United Arab Emirates officials say. ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Dalit Ram Aharon and her husband Achi say they want to move back to Nir Oz "in the memory" of the friends they lost in the 7 October attacks/ Roosting birds now coo among the ceiling tiles in the deserted dining room of Kibbutz ...
Yemen's government says it has launched an offensive aimed at retaking all territory held by the Houthis/ Yemeni pro-government forces backed by Saudi Arabia say they have retaken control of the Red Sea port city of Mokha and "secured" the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the start of a major offensive ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Nada Tawfik in New York explains what happened when Netanyahu spoke/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fiercely defended his country's military campaigns in Iran, Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East in a speech to ...
Reconstruction has yet to begin in Gaza almost a year after a ceasefire came into force/ US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has announced a $2.45bn (£1.85bn) Gaza recovery plan at a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The funding will be spread across 66 programmes over ...
President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Iran will never "bend the knee" after almost seven months of war with the US and Israel, but is ready for a diplomatic solution to the conflict. Responding to US President Donald Trump's threat to "annihilate" the Islamic Republic if a deal is not reached ...
Iran must "end its arming of and support" for the Houthis in Yemen, the foreign ministers of G7 nations have said in a joint statement. The G7 also condemned "in the strongest terms" Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, adding that the recent escalation in fighting against Saudi-backed pro-government ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Watch: Thick black plumes of smoke rise from near Riyadh's international airport/ Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen say they carried out drone and ballistic missile attacks on the Saudi capital Riyadh, as well as energy sites ...