Outraged Iraqi protesters on Tuesday stormed the US Embassy compound in Baghdad, protesting Washington’s attacks on armed battalions belong to Iranian-backed Hashd Al-Shaabi forces, Anadolu Agency reports. At least 25 people were killed in weekend [ More … ]
Two members of a shady Islamist group with links to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group were killed in a Sunday raid in Sidi Bouzeid, 200 km south-west of Tunis. Tunisian security officials killed two [ More … ]
Israeli forces shot and injured four Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets, after residents in a Palestinian village south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank gathered to defend their homes from a mob of [ More … ]
Three Palestinian teachers suffered from pepper spray inflammation at the hands of Israeli forces, when the latter stormed a secondary school in the southern occupied West Bank village of Tuqu to remove posters commemorating 17-year-old [ More … ]
Israeli settlers have entered into the Palestinian village of Kifl Haris in the northern occupied West Bank district of Salfit, sparking clashes with locals youth Reports said that the settlers entered the village in their private [ More … ]
– The army says the town will be liberated within hours – Iraqi forces on Monday swept into a predominantly Christian town south-east of Mosul in northern Iraq, reported Anadolu Agency. In a statement, the [ More … ]
A large number of Jewish settlers on Sunday morning desecrated the Al-Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards amid tight police protection, on the seventh and final day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.. Local sources in Occupied Jerusalem [ More … ]
For the second day in a row, hundreds of Jewish settlers and Israeli forces on Wednesday forced their way into Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, according to Anadolu [ More … ]
Hundreds of hardline Israelis stormed East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound and several were arrested during a Jewish religious festival on Sunday, according to Anadolu Agency. Around 300 Jews visited the flashpoint compound, according to Israeli [ More … ]
More than 200 Israeli settlers stormed Tuesday morning al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy Israeli police protection, according to Palestinian local agencies. As part of a larger memorial service for 13-year-old Hallel Ariel, an Israeli girl who [ More … ]
Israeli settlers on early Sunday morning broke into Muslims’ the holy al-Aqsa Mosque. 18 Israeli settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque via the Maghareba Gate at around 7:30 a.m. Israeli police troops and special units escorted [ More … ]
The Jordanian government on Monday condemned the recurrent Israeli violations against Al Haram Al Sharif /Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The condemnation came after Israeli forces stormed the mosque on Sunday and Monday, assaulting worshippers [ More … ]
Israeli forces raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem Sunday morning, clashing with worshipers, injuring at least 12 Palestinians and detaining at least two Palestinians and two South African nationals, as the Muslim [ More … ]
Dozens of settlers along with Israeli army officers on Monday morning stormed the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque from the Magharebah gate under the military protection of Israeli Special Forces. A group of right-wing Israelis [ More … ]
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