woman set herself on fire outside a courthouse in Tehran on Monday to protest being charged with trying to impersonate a man and illegally attend a/ The woman was charged with “insulting the public by defying the dress code for women,” court documents said, and was told she could face six months ...
n Iranian woman has set herself on fire outside a court in Tehran after being tried for resisting arrest by morality police for trying to enter a football stadium disguised as a male spectator. According to Rokna news agency, the woman, named only as Sahar, has been taken to a local hospital ...
Since the current government came to power in Iran, women in the country are facing higher . In Iran, every day, in the media, we have sad news of acid spraying on women, self-immolation and suicide. outside a court in Tehran after being tried for resisting arrest by morality police for trying ...
Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi, survived physical and sexual violence by IS/ In a courtroom in Munich, Nora sat across from the person who had bought her as a slave, abused her and murdered her five-year old daughter. Nora and Reda were being held captive in Iraq by the jihadist group Islamic ...
The mother of the only British-Israeli hostage being held by Hamas has described her increasing fears for her daughter's life after more than 400 days in captivity. Emily Damari, 28, was taken by Hamas from her home in southern Israel on 7 October 2023. “I fear that she's dead," her mother Mandy ...
Abdulkafi in front of the Aleppo Citadel, in the heart of the Syrian city/ Abdulkafi, an English teacher from the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, saw his father for the first time in 20 years on Monday. “He is 85, an old man. He never dreamed he would see me again before he died,” Abdulkafi told ...
Israeli soldiers on patrol in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon. Photo: 2 December 2024/ Israel said it struck targets in Lebanon on Monday evening after vowing to retaliate for an attack by Hezbollah on a military post, with both sides accusing each other of violating last week's ...
Rihab Faour at her temporary home in Beirut. ‘I have to find something to fill my days,’ she said/ Rihab Faour fled her home. Then she fled again. Then a third time. Then a fourth. And by the fourth time, a year after the first, she had been fleeing Israeli bombs for so long that nowhere in ...
The reignited war in Syria is the latest fallout from the turmoil that has gripped the Middle East since the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October last year. The attacks, and Israel’s response, upended the status quo. Events in Syria in the last few days are more proof that the war gripping the ...
The biggest UN agency providing aid to Palestinians has said it is suspending deliveries through the main crossing between Israel and Gaza because of security concerns. The head of Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini, said two recent convoys had been looted by armed gangs near the Kerem Shalom crossing ...
Syrian government forces have withdrawn from the city of Aleppo following an offensive by rebels opposed to the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. The army acknowledged that rebels had entered "large parts" of the city, the country's second largest, but vowed to stage a counterattack. The ...
The wreckage of a car seen following an Israeli strike in southern Gaza/ The charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) has said it is pausing its operations in Gaza after a vehicle carrying its staff members was hit by an Israeli air strike. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the target of the ...
The crater left behind by the massive Israeli air strike that killed Hassan Nasrallah was lit up in red for the event/ Thousands of people have descended on the site where former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed by an Israeli air strike, after the group allowed access to the area for ...