Middle East

Pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets around the world on the “day of action,” calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as the Israeli aggression reached the 100-day mark. The global day of action on Saturday saw demonstrations take place in various international capitals, including Washington DC, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Johannesburg, Abuja, Tokyo, Islamabad, Jakarta, and Kuala

Israel will face the “genocide” charge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for its brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip, as a horrible nightmare of bloodshed in the Palestinian enclave is unfolding due to the occupying regime’s incessant bombardment. Late last month, South Africa, in an 84-page suit filed against Israel at the top UN court on December 29, asked the top court

Union Minister for Minority Affairs Smriti Irani, who is on a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, met Indian volunteers who provide service to Hajj pilgrims and interacted with Umrah pilgrims from India in Madinah on Monday. Irani, who is also the Minister of Women and Child Development, travelled to Madinah along with Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan and other senior officials.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it has no information about the locations of hundreds of patients and health workers at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. In a social media post in the early hours of Monday morning, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world health body has received “troubling” reports about increasing combat operations and evacuation orders “near

The Israeli military has reportedly struck several areas along the border in southern Lebanon with artillery fire, killing nine members of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement. Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Manar television channel reported on Thursday that shells were fired at the villages of Taybeh, Kfarkela, Khiam and the Marjayoun Plain, as the occupying regime continues its aggressive

Hundreds of people have been killed and injured in two terrorist blasts near the burial site of Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani in the city of Kerman during a ceremony marking his fourth martyrdom anniversary. The explosions on January 3 left 103 people dead and 211 more injured, state media reported. Medical services said the death toll is expected to rise as ambulances were taking the wounded to

The Israeli military says it is withdrawing thousands of forces from the Gaza Strip in the first significant troop pullback since the devastating war began nearly three month ago. There is growing pressure on the Tel Aviv regime to move to a more low-intensity war amid mounting death and humanitarian toll of the genocidal war. In a statement on Monday, the regime’s army said, “The move is expected

Jerusalem: Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law limiting its own powers, a momentous step in the legal and political crisis that gripped the country before the war with Hamas, and pitted the court against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government. The court’s 8-7 ruling has the potential to throw Israel’s national emergency government, formed after the Oct. 7 attacks

Palestinian officials say the Israeli regime has assassinated another Palestinian prisoner who was in detention in one of the occupying entity's prisons. The new fatality, which occurred on Monday, increases to seven the number of Palestinian inmates killed in the regime's prisons since October 7, 2023, when the Gaza Strip's resistance movements launched Operation al-Aqsa Storm. The Palestinian

New Delhi: A Qatar Court has commuted the death sentence given to eight former Indian Navy personnel in an alleged case of espionage, the External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday. "We have noted the verdict today of the Court of Appeal of Qatar in the Dahra Global case, in which the sentences have been reduced," the ministry said in a statement. The eight former personnel of the Indian Navy