TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is heading to Saudi Arabia Wednesday for talks on efforts to end Israeli attacks on Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, his ministry said. Hamas and Hezbollah are both in the Iran-backed “Axis for Resistance” of militant groups in the region. Araghchi will visit the Gulf kingdom […]
NEW YORK — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reaffirmed the organisation’s call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon amid escalating tensions in the Middle East region. “We cannot and will not give up on our calls for an immediate ceasefire both in Gaza and Lebanon, the immediate and unconditional release of hostages, and immediate […]
JERUSALEM — In the past year in the Gaza Strip, Israel has bombed more than 40,000 targets, found 4,700 tunnel shafts and destroyed 1,000 rocket launcher sites, the military said on Monday’s one-year anniversary of the Hamas-led militant attacks that triggered Israel’s assault on the enclave. Tallying troops whose names it received permission to publish, […]
GAZA — The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Sunday an Israeli strike on a mosque-turned-shelter in central Deir al-Balah killed 26 people, while Israel’s military said it had targeted Hamas. “The number of martyrs brought to hospitals as a result of the occupation’s targeting of displaced people in the Ibn Rushd school and […]
BEIRUT — A high-level Hezbollah source said on Saturday that contact with Hashem Safieddine, widely touted as potentially the group’s next leader, had been lost following Israeli strikes this week. “Contact with Sayyed Safieddine has been lost since the violent strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs” early on Friday, the official told AFP. “We don’t know […]
TEL AVIV — The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Friday that it has eliminated 2000-plus military targets and 250 Hezbollah terrorists since it began targetted and demarcated ground operations in southern Lebanon, four days ago. “Directing fire and intelligence of the divisions and the Northern Command, five commanders at the level of the brigade, […]
TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in his first address in five years to a Friday gathering, defended the “legal and legitimate” missile attack by Iran on Israel and called for “Muslim unity.” After leading prayers at the Imam Khomeini’s Grand Mosalla in central Tehran, Khamenei in his sermon stated that Iran […]
TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has called the United Nations and other European nations the root cause of the problems in West Asia, Iran-based IRNA reported. While addressing a group of Iranian elites and top students in Tehran on Wednesday, he stressed that the cause of the problem–which results in conflicts, wars, […]
TEL AVIV — Iran late on Tuesday fired ballistic missiles targeting two military bases of Israel and the headquarters of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, claimed Iranian state television, citing Mohammad Bagheri, Iran’s top military officer. Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, told Press TV that the Nevatim air base, […]
TEL AVIV — Referring to Iran’s missile strikes on Israel, Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said that Iran made a big mistake, and it would pay for it. At the start of the Security Cabinet Meeting, Netanyahu said that whoever attacks them, they will counter-attack. In a post on X, he said, […]
