The UN Security Council stressed on the need to maintain the status quo at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. But the UNSC member states did not commit to any action days after Israel’s new far-right security minister made a controversial visit to the site, which Palestinian leaders called “an unprecedented provocation."
The head of the Supreme Judicial Council in Iraq, Judge Faeq Zaidan has stated that Baghdad will surely prosecute the masterminds and perpetrators of terror operation against Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and Deputy Chief of Iraq's popular forces - Hashd al-Shaabi - Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis.
The United Arab Emirates' foreign minister has visited Syria and met with President Bashar al-Assad in the capital Damascus, in yet another sign of Arab countries' efforts to normalize ties with Syria.
The European Union has underlined that the status quo of holy sites in the occupied Old City of al-Quds should be preserved. It comes after Israel's new far-right “national security” minister Itamar Ben-Gvir entered the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in what Palestinians called a breach of international laws.
The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has said the United States assassinated top Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani with the goal of weakening the resistance front and eliminating threats to Israel.
Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid on a refugee camp in the southern part of the West Bank. It comes less than 24 hours after two Palestinian men lost their lives in a similar Israeli attack in a village near the city of Jenin.
At least 3,000 civilians, including women and children, were killed or injured in the airstrikes launched by the Saudi-led coalition against Yemen in the year 2022, according to a rights group.
The Israeli Army troops have killed two Palestinian men during a raid on a village near the city of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
A Palestinian rights advocacy group has reported that the Israeli forces arrested a total of 7,000 Palestinians, including hundreds of women and children, in 2022.
Syria’s military has announced that Israeli raids have killed at least two Syrian soldiers and put the country’s main international airport out of service.
The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) has announced that the Saudi-led coalition has confiscated 4 fuel ships and prevented them from reaching the Red Sea port of Hudaydah. The port city is a lifeline for millions of Yemenis and has been tightly controlled by Saudi Arabia.
At least four people have been killed and 12 others wounded in an attack on a police checkpoint in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, according to Egyptian officials and medical sources.
The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution calling on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give an opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.
The Islamic organization running the al-Aqsa Mosque compound's affairs has reported a record number of Israeli settlers storming the Muslim holy site in 2022.
A meeting between the Turkish, Syrian and Russian presidents has been scheduled, but not for January, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said.
Benjamin Netanyahu is sworn in as Israel's new prime minister. This is the most far-right, religiously conservative government in the history of Israel with Bibi saying settlement expansion and stopping Iran's nuclear program being among his top priorities.
A Yemeni health official says nearly 3,000 civilians, including African refugees, lost their lives or sustained injuries this year as a result of artillery and missile strikes by Saudi military forces in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada.
Defence ministers of Syria, Russia and Turkey have held talks in Moscow in a clear sign of normalisation between Ankara and Damascus in the decade-long Syrian war.
Families of the US soldiers who were killed by the Daesh terror group in the Middle East, have sued French cement giant Lafarge, which had earlier pleaded guilty for supporting terrorists in Syria, reported local media, citing lawsuit documents.
