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Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards called on the judiciary, on Thursday, to prosecute "those who spread false news and rumours", in an apparent bid to take the steam out of nationwide protests over the death of a young woman in police custody, Reuters reports. Protesters in Tehran and other Iranian...

The US sanctioned Iran's Morality Police and senior officials, Thursday, as mass unrest envelops the Islamic Republic in the wake of the death of a woman while in police custody, Anadolu News Agency reports. The sanctions are being issued in response to the "abuse and violence against Iranian women...

Israeli Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, on Thursday welcomed the comment of his British counterpart, Liz Truss, over reviewing the possibility of moving the UK embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Anadolu News Agency reports. Lapid thanked Truss on his Twitter account over the issue, adding he "will continue to...

A group of Israeli settlers yesterday fired live bullets at civilians near the town of Ni'lin, west of Ramallah. A source from the town told Safa news agency that armed settlers fired live bullets at citizens and shepherds in the Jabal Al-Habazi area, north of Ni'lin, in order to...

Islamophobia remains a growing threat across Europe, with several countries enacting policies that have contributed to the institutionalisation of an issue that should, instead, be stamped out with urgency, a new report has warned. According to the European Islamophobia Report 2021, Islamophobia was "as pressing a problem" across the...

Israel's official Army Radio yesterday said there was a "noticeable" increase in Iranian cyber attacks targeting Israel's infrastructure. The radio station quoted military officials as saying that the attacks had increased by "70 per cent." The Israeli occupation witnessed several cyber attacks in recent months on their airports, civilian...

Turkiye has sold and delivered drones to the United Arab Emirates, eight months after Ankara and Abu Dhabi reconciled and restored relations, Reuters has reported. Anonymous Turkish sources have confirmed that the Baykar Company delivered twenty of its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the UAE earlier this month. There...

The head of Tunisia's Ennahda, Rached Ghannouchi, has defended the movement by pointing out that it has no link to sending people to "hotbeds of tension", and nor do any of its officials. Ghannouchi added that describing Ennahda as a terrorist organisation is an attempt to exclude a political...

Yemen's Houthi-aligned armed forces have taken part in a military parade marking the eighth anniversary of the 21 September Revolution, which saw the allied forces takeover the capital Sanaa. The procession was described by Yemen's Saba News Agency as the largest military and security parade in the region. "Around...

Morocco has been given drone technology by Israel as part of a security and military cooperation deal between Rabat and Tel Aviv. The deal was signed by Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz and Morocco's Minister in charge of National Defence Administration, Abdellatif Loudiyi, last November. The Israel Defence website...

Armed Israeli extremist settlers attacked Palestinian commuters and drivers this morning, causing panic and damage to cars in the north of the occupied West Bank. Local sources reported that a group of extremist settlers attacked the Palestinian citizens near the Huwwara checkpoint, where Israeli settlers threw stones at them...

Saudi Arabia and Turkiye have helped to mediate the largest prisoner exchange deal between Russia and Ukraine since Moscow launched its invasion nearly seven months ago. As many as 300 prisoners from ten different countries were released, including citizens of the US, the UK and Morocco. Some had been...

Social media giant Meta has unfairly targetted Palestinian social media users during the 11-day onslaught on the Gaza Strip in May 2021, which killed at least 254 Palestinians including 66 children and 39 women. A report conducted by the independent consultancy Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), today revealed double...

Saudi Arabia has launched an astronaut programme, state news agency SPA reported today, with the first journey to space set for 2023 carrying the country's first female astronaut. The programme, launched by the Saudi Space Commission, will enable Saudi astronauts to conduct scientific experiments and research "for the betterment of humanity in...

An Israeli appeal court has granted permission to continue illegal collective punishment against 17 innocent members of a Palestinian family five years after the killing of four occupation soldiers by Fadi Al-Qanbar. The attack took place in occupied Jerusalem in 2017. Following the ruling, the extreme far-right nationalist politician...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards called on the judiciary to prosecute "those who spread false news and rumours", in a statement published today as tensions mount over the death of a woman in police custody, Reuters reported. "We expressed sympathy with the family and relatives of the late Mahsa Amini, and we have...

British Prime Minister Liz Truss has informed her Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid, that she is reviewing relocating the British embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Truss discussed the possible move with Lapid during a meeting at the UN summit in New York yesterday. Taking to Twitter, Lapid said that...

Russia has decided to move units of its 217th Paratroop Regiment from Syria to Ukraine, Newsweek has reported. Troops from the regiment were deployed to Belarus a month before Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year. The Russians have had a military presence in Syria to help the regime in...

Ennahda movement in Tunisia has condemned the arrest of its deputy chairman and former Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh, Anadolu has reported. The arrest, said Ennahda, is only in the interest of those whose goal is to monopolise government in the country and exclude all political opponents, Defence lawyer Samir...

Qatar today began distributing financial aid to thousands of Palestinian families in Gaza, which has been under a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007. People started gathering at various distribution points early in the morning to receive a grant of $100 per family for the month of September. Some 100,000 Palestinian...

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has been criticised harshly by rivals and allies alike, including government's ministers, for saying that he supports the two-state solution. According to Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked on Twitter, the prime minister has "no public legitimacy to entangle Israel with statements that cause damage to...

Three-quarters of Palestinians do not want Palestinian Authority (PA), Fatah and PLO President Mahmoud Abbas as their president, Al-Resalah newspaper reported yesterday. According to the news site, the poll was conducted between 13-17 September, ahead of Abbas' speech before the UN General Assembly this week. It found that 26...

Tunisian authorities released on Tuesday former parliamentarian for the Ennahda Party, Habib Al-Louz, after the Anti-Terrorism Police interrogated him. Tunisia has detained a number of Ennahda officials on suspicion they helped send jihadists to Iraq and Syria, claims the party and its members all deny. Ennahda affirmed its opposition...

Benjamin Netanyahu accused Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid yesterday of surrendering to threats made by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah concerning the disputed Karish gas field in the Mediterranean Sea. "Lapid totally folded in the face of Nasrallah's threats," said the Israeli opposition leader on Twitter. "He wants to hand...

European legal and financial instruments and institutions should not be manipulated to violate the sovereignty of Malaysia from behind the fig leaf of a spurious claim to Malaysian territory by the so-called Sultan of Sulu, Sultan Jamalul Kiram II. While the claim is lacking in historical, legal and political...

The next Arab League Summit is due to be held in Algeria at the beginning of November. Arab foreign ministers agreed on the date at their last meeting in Cairo following the postponement of the summit in March. There has also been talk of another postponement for reasons related...

Israel's "savage power" and its "savagery is not ending", Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi told the UN General Assembly yesterday. "The region has not seen an occupying savage power such as the Zionist regime in its midst in the past," Raisi said. He explained: "The killing of children and women...

The Islamic Action Front, the largest party in Jordan, yesterday warned of the Israeli extremists' upcoming escalations against Al-Aqsa Mosque, including a series of large-scale incursions coinciding with the Jewish holidays from 26 September until early October. The party said, in a statement issued by its Jerusalem and Palestine...

Algeria yesterday launched a campaign to promote its candidacy for a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council for the term 2024-2025. Elections are due to be held during the 77th General Assembly session in June 2023. This came amid increasing demands for reforming the Security Council and...

Speaker of the Saudi Shura Council, Abdullah Bin Muhammad Al-Sheikh, has called on Iran to cooperate and stop meddling in the domestic affairs of others and stop "exploiting" the Houthis in Yemen "Saudi Arabia calls on Iran, as a neighbour with whom our people share religious and cultural ties,...

The Speaker of Libya's House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, visited Qatar on 10 September where he spoke with officials before meeting Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani. Saleh's visit came two days after Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh left Doha, which suggests that the Gulf State is seeking to...

A US airstrike in central Somalia killed 27 Al-Shabaab terrorists, the American military said on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. The airstrike was conducted on 18 September "at the request of the Federal Government of Somalia … against Al-Shabaab terrorists who were attacking Somali National Army forces near Buulobarde,"...

While Zionist leaders in Israel accuse the PA of being unable to maintain security, and of failing to fulfil its duty of preventing acts of violence against Israelis, using this as a justification for storming West Bank cities and killing citizens on suspicion of resistance, the PA arrested Musab...

Lebanon's progress in implementing reforms required to unlock relief funds from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) remains very slow, the IMF said in a statement on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Lebanon agreed with the IMF on a list of 10 reforms to get access to $3 billion to ease its...

Qatar has announced its decision to suspend visas for those visiting the country prior to and during the FIFA World Cup later this year, as over two million are expected to attend football matches in the Gulf nation. In a press conference regarding the regulation of entry and exit...

Iran's hard-line President struck a defiant tone on Wednesday by demanding guarantees the United States not abandon any revived nuclear deal and by decrying "double standards" on human rights after the death of an Iranian woman in police custody, Reuters reports. Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi also said Tehran wanted...

Security services for the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad have arrested a family which returned from Turkiye to the city of Homs, in yet another case of betrayal of the promise of reconciliation for those who return to the war-torn country. According to the Syrian opposition news outlet, Nedaa...

This month has likely been the most crushing for Russia since it launched its invasion of Ukraine almost seven months ago. In an aggressive counter-offensive operation, Ukrainian forces recaptured the cities of Kharkiv and Kupiansk, reportedly retaking 3,000 square kilometres of territory rapidly, and driving out Russian forces. Aside...

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid discussed the issue of Israeli soldiers captured in Gaza with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly's annual meeting on Tuesday. A statement issued by Lapid's office said that the issue of the prisoners was brought up in...

Time is running out to avoid an environmental disaster that will expose millions of people in Yemen to hazardous substances, Save the Children has warned, calling on the international community to release funds to stop a rusting supertanker from spilling into the Red Sea. The 45-year-old FSO Safer, carrying 1.1...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited himself for a security meeting with Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid last month to discuss Iran's nuclear programme. Afterwards, he said that Lapid and Defence Minister Benny Gantz did not live up to their responsibilities for preventing a new nuclear deal...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said yesterday that Tehran is investigating the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody, and rejected American calls for accountability, Anadolu news agency reported. In a post on Twitter, Abdollahian described Mahsa Amini's death as "tragic" and said she was "just like...

Egyptian authorities will release 28 pretrial detainees, including journalists and five women, Anadolu news agency reported. A statement issued by the Presidential Amnesty Committee said the committee had coordinated with the "concerned state authorities" and the release of 28 pretrial detainees is underway, after completing the necessary legal procedures....

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have apparently formed a militia to carry out night operations against the Palestinians, the official Kan broadcaster has reported. The so-called "Civil Guard", it is claimed, will help the Israel occupation army. Settlers launched a night patrol on Route 60 on Monday...

The West Bank and Gaza Strip crossings will be closed for the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur, the Israeli army has announced. The Rosh Hashanah closure will begin on Sunday at 4 pm and last until 11:59 pm on Tuesday. For Yom...

A record number of Jews from around the world have come on pilgrimage to Morocco to commemorate the death anniversary of an esteemed Rabbi, Haim Pinto. According to Morocco World News, more than 2,000 members of the Moroccan Jewish community visited the coastal city of Essaouira last week to...

On the run from authorities after forcing a bank to release her family savings at gunpoint to treat her cancer-stricken sister, 28-year-old Lebanese interior designer, Sali Hafiz, insists she is not the criminal. "We are in the country of mafias. If you are not a wolf, the wolves will...

The Iranian Oil Ministry said that a gas purchase and gas swap deal between Iran and Russia will be announced soon. Tehran is set to import up to 9,600,000 cubic metres per day of Russian gas through Azerbaijan, according to a statement issued by Iranian Oil Ministry on Monday....

The King of Jordan said on Tuesday that peace continues to be "elusive" in the Palestine-Israel conflict, Anadolu has reported. Abdullah II stressed the need for a two-state solution in accordance with UN resolutions. "Neither war nor diplomacy has held the answer to this historic tragedy," the Jordanian monarch...

Every Arab knows that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — has restored the nation's dignity and pride, and revived the spirit of resistance following the surrender of some Arab governments and the cursed Oslo Accords signed by Yasser Arafat. The spirit of resistance is behind the heroic...