Middle East

The occupying regime of Israel is using flechette shells, which spray out thousands of tiny and potentially lethal metal darts, in its military invasion in Gaza, the British daily The Guardian reported.

A Palestinian woman in a village near Ramallah, in the West Bank, has turned tear gas canisters fired by Israeli soldiers into small flower pots in her garden. The symbolic move comes in protest at Israeli violence targeting the Palestinians.

The American news network CNN has removed its correspondent Diana Magnay from covering the Zionist regime’s deadly offensive against the besieged Gaza Strip after she covered Israelis’ cheering of the bombing of Gaza.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani in a telephone conversation with his Omani counterpart Sheikh Khaled bin Halal Al-Maoni on Sunday urged the Muslim countries to increase and accelerate aid and assistance to the people of Gaza.

Iranian foreign ministry spokeswoman on Sunday strongly condemned the atrocities committed by Israel against people of Gaza, particularly the “savage crimes” against residents of the enclave’s eastern Shejaiya district.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has called on Iran to back its ceasefire plan to end Gaza war between Hamas and Israel, which has so far left more than 300 people dead, including children, in the Gaza Strip.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on Egypt to open the Rafah border crossing at least for humanitarian aid, particularly for the transfer and treatment of wounded Palestinians in Gaza.

Human Rights Watch has warned that ISIL Takfiris kill or expel all religious minorities from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and its surroundings.

Should the occupying regime of Israel find itself low on ammunition, it can tap into a stockpile of a billion dollars worth of US weapons arsenal stored in Occupied Territories by the United States for emergencies. So far, the Zionist regime has not requested access to the stockpile during the current assault on Gaza.

People around the world have participated in protest rallies to condemn the Israeli deadly aggression against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

An interview with Ghazanfar Roknabadi, Iran’s former ambassador to Lebanon

Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has called for an emergency meeting of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation Member States' (PUIC) Presidential Troika over the Israeli regime’s airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

An interview with Ali Akbar Assadi, an expert on Middle Eastern affairs

Supreme Leader’s top Advisor for International Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati expressed concern about the situation in Iraq, and said Tehran is ready to help the Iraqi nation and government upon a request by the Baghdad government.

A Middle East correspondent of a Swiss-based newspaper, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, has said Iran could be an example for all people in Middle East.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham strongly condemned the recent Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and lawmakers in Gaza, describing it as an indication of the Zionists' weakness and internal rifts.

Around 1.5 million Iraqis have volunteered to join battles against the militants of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The Pentagon says the US aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush and more than 50 attack aircraft are in the Persian Gulf, ready to launch attacks against Takfiri militants in Iraq.

A major Islamic center in Egypt has issued a religious decree forbidding Muslims from joining the Takfiri militants of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has dismissed reports about the deployment of Iranian forces in Iraq, but expressed Tehran’s preparedness to provide any help upon Baghdad’s request to fight the Takfiri militants.

Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani says the US and its allied authoritarian regimes in the Middle East are behind the Takfiri atrocities in Iraq.

Thirty agents linked to the terrorist group al-Qaeda have been apprehended across Iran over the past month, says the country’s deputy intelligence minister.

Sistani issues call to arms against Iraq ISIL Iraq's top Shiite religious authority Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called Iraqis Friday to take up arms against the foreign backed militants who have overrun swathes of the country after launching a major offensive.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) – an al-Qaeda offshoot -- has been careful to reveal little about himself and his whereabouts.

Iraq’s premier said civilian backup groups are going to join the army forces to help them combat the Al-Qaeda-linked militants who have taken control of Mosul, in the Northern province of Nineveh.