Russia has seen an alarming surge in crimes linked with terrorism and extremism in the first half of 2024, according to the data released by the country’s Interior Ministry.
An official Iranian source told Al Jazeera that Tehran plans to convey two messages to the Jordanian Foreign Minister: one directed at Jordan's kingdom and the other at the United States and Israel regarding the recent assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas in Tehran.
The number of Ukrainians who believe it is time to start official talks with Russia to resolve the Ukrainian conflict has almost doubled over the last year - from 23% to 44%, the US online magazine Responsible Statecraft said, citing Ukrainian sociological surveys.
More than 1000 Israeli attacks have been recorded on health workers, patients, hospitals and other medical infrastructure in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since early October 2023 a rights advocate group says.
A senior official with the Joe Biden administration told the Israeli daily Haaretz that the US president has realized that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was lying to him over a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.
Iran’s parliament speaker has urged Iranian authorities to take a deterrent measure against the Israeli regime to preserve the country’s national interests following the assassination of a senior Hamas leader in Tehran.
Iran will give a “regrettable and painful” response to the Zionist regime’s assassination of several resistance fighters and leaders in recent days, including the political head of the Palestinian resistance movement in Tehran, the chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee says.
US President Joe Biden has voiced hope Iran would stand down despite its threat to avenge the assassination of Hamas’ leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, as fears have mounted that Israel’s war against the Gaza Strip could escalate into a wider conflict in West Asia.
Anti-government rallies erupted in several cities across the occupied territories, as tens of thousands of Israelis demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu find a path to an agreement with Hamas, to free more than 100 hostages still held in the Gaza Strip.
American officials say the anticipated Iranian attack against Israel in response to the assassination of Hamas Political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran could occur in the coming days.
A member of Iran’s Expediency Council says the Islamic Republic must give a decisive response to the Israeli regime over the recent terrorist attack that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran but it must also take care not to fall into Netanyahu’s trap.
A member of Iran's Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission says one scenario regarding the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas's political bureau, is that Israel attacked Haniyeh's residence using a drone launched from the second station of Tochal Heights in northern Tehran.
Airlines from the US, Europe, and Asia have suspended flights to Lebanon and Israel, citing security concerns following the recent developments in West Asia.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced in a statement on Saturday that Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed by “a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kgs (15.4 lbs) accompanied by a severe explosion from outside his residence" in Tehran.
Russian military intelligence officers are believed to have been deployed to Yemen to assist the Houthis with targeting commercial vessels in the Red Sea, Middle East Eye has reported, quoting US sources.
The Israeli army killed 31 more Palestinians in fresh attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall Palestinian death toll to 39,550 since last October, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave reported on Saturday.
At least five people, including a local commander of Hamas’s military wing, have been killed in an Israeli air raid on a car in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned that the situation in the occupied West Bank is deteriorating amid ongoing Israeli raids.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a plea deal that would have taken the death penalty off the table for three prisoners accused of helping to plot the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The body of Milad Bidi, one of the military advisors of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) in Syria and Lebanon, was buried on Saturday morning in a grand ceremony at Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in southern Tehran.
