ISTANBUL — Three members of Iran’s security forces were killed overnight in clashes with protesters near Tehran in the latest sign of ongoing unrest despite a nationwide Internet blackout and heavy police crackdown./ Two members of the Basij paramilitary force and a commander in Iran’s elite ...
Protests in Iran triggered by petrol price hikes last week have subsided, an Iranian judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after the elite Revolutionary Guards warned of “decisive” action if anti-government protests do not cease./ FILE PHOTO: General view of the highway, after fuel price ...
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ Iran has gone almost entirely offline as authorities try to stem the spread of/ Protesters took to the streets shortly after the government announced an increase in by as much as 300%. Social media images ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Petrol stations, banks and shops were set on fire during protests over the weekend At least 12 people have been killed in Iran since protests against fuel price rises erupted three days ago, officials have said, although reports suggest the ...
Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards warned anti-government protesters of “decisive” action if unrest over gasoline price hikes do not cease, state media said, in a hint that a harsh security crackdown could be on the cards./ FILE PHOTO: People stop their cars in a highway to show their protest ...
Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered Israeli forces to amass inside and around Gaza/ There is growing concern that fighting could resume in Gaza after Israel's prime minister warned Hamas it would end the ceasefire if the Palestinian armed group "does not return our hostages by Saturday". ...
The Houthi movement controls much of north-western Yemen, including the capital Sanaa/ A World Food Programme (WFP) worker has died while in detention in Houthi-controlled northern Yemen, according to the UN agency. The WFP said the man was one of seven Yemeni staff "arbitrarily detained" by ...
Jihadist group Islamic State killed about 5,000 Yazidis and enslaved thousands more/ A Swedish woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing genocide and war crimes against the Yazidi people after she joined jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria. Lina Ishaq, 52, was found ...
Shlomo Mansour's body is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza/ The Israeli military has said an elderly Israeli man was killed during Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack on southern Israel and that his body is being held hostage in Gaza. Iraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 86, was abducted by gunmen at his home ...
Imad Abdallah sits with other day labourers in a square in central Amman hoping to pick up temporary work/ Donald Trump is expected to face fierce resistance from Jordan's King Abdullah at the White House today, in their first meeting since the US president proposed moving Gaza's population to ...
Hamas freed more hostages, including Eli Sharabi, on Saturday/ just days before it is due to release the next group of hostages? In one of its official statements, released on Telegram, the group called its announcement a "warning" to Israel and said it was giving mediators "ample time to ...
Three more hostages are due to be released in the next scheduled exchange/ A spokesperson for the armed wing of Hamas says the group is postponing the next scheduled release of Israeli hostages, blaming what he said were Israeli violations of the ceasefire deal. Three hostages held in Gaza are ...
Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmad (not pictured) were arrested by Israeli police on Sunday/ An Israeli police raid on a well-known chain of Palestinian bookshops in occupied East Jerusalem and the detention of their owners has shocked many people in the city's cultural, journalistic and ...
"When I saw my school in ruins, a deep sadness overwhelmed me," says Tareq, a 10-year-old Palestinian from Gaza/ Tareq, 10, from Gaza, and Safaa, 14, from Sudan live about 2,000km apart. They have never met, but they share a harsh reality - war has stolen their education. "When I saw my school ...
Israeli troops have withdrawn from the Netzarim Corridor - a military zone cutting off the north of the Gaza Strip from the south. Hundreds of Palestinians in cars and on carts laden with mattresses and other goods began returning to northern Gaza following the pull-out - often to scenes of ...