West Asia

World Children's Day is celebrated globally on 20th of November every year.

Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls for int'l probes into recent deaths of 2 Palestinians.

Israeli soldiers fire rubber bullets, tear gas at protesters in different parts of occupied West Bank

Secretary of Iran’ Supreme National Security Council says that the assassination attempt against Iraqi Prime Minister al-Kadhimi's is new sedition that must be traced back to foreign think tanks.

Iraq’s military says Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi survived an assassination attempt after a drone laden with explosives targeted his residence in the capital, Baghdad.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi called for an investigation into the incidents related to Friday's protests in the country.

Palestinian authorities on Thursday unveiled one of the largest floor mosaics in the world, in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, after years of restoration.

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The Israeli security forces have detained 1,282 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem over the past three months.

Palestinian human rights organisations have called for international solidarity, branding Israel’s designation of six leading organisations as terrorist groups part of a “sinister plot” to silence resistance.

Israel is set to give green light to almost 3,000 new homes for illegal Zionist settlers in occupied West Bank as US voices 'concern' over the plans.

Rights activists say PayPal is discriminating against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by blocking them from using the digital payment platform.

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah warned the Israeli enemy against running investments in the maritime border zone before the end of the demarcation file.

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Baghdad's Friday prayer leader

Air forces of seven countries and the Zionist regime began the international "Blue Flag" air combat exercise in the occupied territories of Palestine on Sunday, the Israeli military said.

Palestinian captives from different Palestinian factions are united to start a widespread hunger strike aims to protest Israeli punitive measures against Islamic Jihad inmates.

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Initial turnout in Iraq’s parliamentary election on Sunday was 41%, the electoral commission said.

Initial turnout in Iraq’s parliamentary election on Sunday was 41%, the electoral commission said.

Addameer NGO urges ICRC to pressure Israel to halt collective punishment of Palestinian captives.

The Israeli army has killed 330 Palestinians and wounded some 15,700 from the beginning of the year until October 4, a United Nations agency denounced on Saturday.

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki lashes out at Israel: They are messengers of instability, we are messengers of peace.

Security forces have adopted a “let off steam” policy to minimize their confrontation with the settlers, according to a report by Haaretz.

Jamil Alyan

Israeli forces attacked 26 members of the media in September, the Journalist Support Committee (JSC) announced yesterday.

Armed with weapons, radical Zionist groups living in illegal settlements stage frequent attacks on Palestinian residents, making life hard for the Palestinian people in the West Bank.

Anti-Israel protests broke out in Bahrain on Friday, a day after Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s visit to open the Jewish state’s first embassy in the country.

Ali Gholami

Iraq's federal government condemns Friday's conference in s Kurdistan in which prominent leaders urged Iraq to make peace with Israel.

Palestinian artist Abeer Jebril's dark-coloured paintings show ballerinas chained in barbed wire, dancing on rocks, or facing barricades to mirror what she calls the "ticking bomb" reality of women in Gaza.

Arrest campaign started after the escape of six high-profile Palestinian security prisoners from Gilboa prison. Amid the manhunt for the missing men, Israeli forces carried out retaliatory raids against family members of the escapees in the Jenin area, which was already restive, arresting and interrogating them before releasing some.

PA electoral commission says municipal elections will be held in PA-assigned areas of the occupied West Bank and Gaza., if Hamas allows the vote.

Teenagers find some classrooms unusable after air strikes leave holes in walls.

The Zionist regime's warplanes conducted airstrikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to witnesses early Sunday.

The Zionist regime's President Isaac Herzog announced on Saturday that he had held a meeting with Jordanian King Abdullah II last week at the king's palace.

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A total of 55 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank this year, all by live ammunition, according to a UN report.

The UN and the EU expressed concern Tuesday over a spate of arrests of activists by Palestinian security forces, as the death of a leading activist in custody sparked persistent protests.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said recent Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah violated Lebanon's sovereignty.

Total infections in the Occupied Territories of Palestine reached 951,226 since outbreak.

The Arab Joint List announced it would lodge a violation complaint against Israeli practices in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil (Hebron).

An Israeli court transfers the property rights of an elderly man to a Zionist settler organisation, leaving him paralysed.

Palestinians performed the Friday prayer in front of the mosque to protest against an Israeli construction plan.

Israel plans to authorize the construction of 2,000 new settlement homes next week, the first major approval of settlement construction by the new government.

Mahmoud Al-Zahar

Palestinian officials sent a warning to the United States, the European Union and other Western countries on Saturday, saying that the continued occupation of Palestinian land by Israel was no longer tolerable.

Oman will not be the third country to normalize ties with Israel Oman's Foriegn Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi told Asharq Al-Awsat Saturday.