Category: 2. Middle East

Italian journalists and media professionals gathered on Sunday evening in Rome’s Porta San Giovanni Square to denounce Israeli crimes against Palestinian journalists in Gaza.

Demonstrators displayed photographs of journalists killed during the Israeli war on Gaza, urging respect for international law. They called for immediate international intervention to halt the extermination war in the Gaza Strip, demand Israel’s withdrawal, and ensure the swift entry of…

President Donald Trump has floated the idea of regime change in Iran, following US airstrikes on the republic’s nuclear sites on Friday. Commenting on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump said that while “it’s not politically correct to use the term ‘Regime Change,’  but if the current Iranian regime is unable to ‘make Iran great again,’ why wouldn’t there be a Regime Change?”

Trump has also issued threats to assassinate Iran’s…

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, on Sunday condemned what it described as a “criminal bombing” that targeted St Elias Church in the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing 20 innocent civilians.

In a statement received by Quds Press, the movement expressed its solidarity with the Syrian people and government.

“We offer our condolences to the Syrian people and the families of the victims, and we pray to God for a swift recovery for those wounded in this…

Loud explosions rocked Tehran on Monday as Israel said it struck “regime targets” in the city, escalating tensions a day after US air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Iran, in turn, fired missile barrages at Israel and vowed retaliation against the United States, as both sides intensified attacks on the war’s 11th day.

An Iranian news agency said Israel struck Fordo — a key nuclear enrichment facility buried deep in the mountains south of Tehran. The previous day, the United States hit…

Israel hit Revolutionary Guard sites and the notorious Evin prison in Tehran on Monday, calling them its most powerful strikes yet on the Iranian capital on the 11th day of the war.

Iran, in turn, fired missile barrages at Israel and vowed retaliation against the United States after it struck the Islamic republic’s nuclear sites a day earlier.

Loud explosions rocked the Iranian capital, where Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the military hit “regime targets” with “unprecedented…

Tehran threatened on Monday to inflict “serious” damage in retaliation for US strikes on the Islamic republic’s nuclear facilities, as the Iran-Israel war entered its 11th day despite calls for de-escalation.

Aerial assaults meanwhile raged on, with air raid sirens sounding across Israel and AFP journalists reporting several blasts were heard over Jerusalem.

The Israeli military said it had struck missile sites in western Iran as well as “six Iranian regime airports” across the country,…

At the blood-stained Saint Elias church in Damascus, Umm George wept as she desperately searched for her son, who was among the worshippers when a suicide bomber struck on Sunday.

In vain, she tried to convince Syrian security forces, who had cordoned off the area, to let her into the church, whose windows had been blown out and whose interior was covered with debris and damaged pews.

“My son was praying in the church,” she told AFP. “I tried to contact him but his mobile phone is off the air…