Category: 2. Middle East

A man prays with a gun at his feet in Umayyad Mosque, in central Damascus, before midday Friday prayers during Eid, on June 6, 2025, in Damascus, Syria. (Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images)

Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, performed Eid al-Adha prayers at the People’s Palace in Damascus alongside Grand Mufti of Syria Sheikh Osama Al-Rifai.

In Jordan, the government declared a five-day public holiday, from June 5 to June 9. Thousands gathered in open-air prayer spaces at mosques across…

The grandmother of two French children killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza filed a legal complaint in France on Friday, accusing Israeli authorities of genocide, crimes against humanity, and murder, Anadolu reports.

Jacqueline Rivault, a resident of Vitry-sur-Seine near Paris, submitted the 48-page complaint on Friday through her lawyer, Arie Alimi, to the French judicial unit handling crimes against humanity, French daily Liberation reported.

The complaint seeks the appointment of an…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Friday discussed bilateral ties as well as regional and global issues over a phone call, Anadolu reports.

Reiterating Turkiye’s continued support for Palestine in every avenue, Erdogan expressed satisfaction with the Western countries’ decision to lift sanctions against Syria, Turkiye’s Communications Directorate said on X.

Erdogan also congratulated bin Salman on the…

Abeer Ghazzawi had little time to visit her two sons’ graves for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha before Israeli soldiers cleared the cemetery near the refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

The Israeli army has conducted a months-long operation in the camp which has forced Ghazzawi, along with thousands of other residents, from her home.

For Ghazzawi, the few precious minutes she spent at her sons’ graves still felt like a small victory.

“On the last Eid (Eid al-Fitr,…

The first Eid al-Adha prayers were held in Syria on Friday after the fall of the Bashar Assad regime, Anadolu reports.

Thousands of people flocked to the historically important Umayyad Mosque in the capital of Damascus for the Eid prayers.

Those who attended the Eid prayers at the Umayyad Mosque from various provinces prayed for the safety and peace of the country.

Thousands of people in other provinces visited the graves of their lost relatives and went to…

Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes late Thursday on the Lebanese capital Beirut’s southern suburbs, a report said, Anadolu reports.

Israeli aircraft targeted a building near Al-Qaem Mosque after issuing a warning, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA).

Israeli warplanes launched seven additional air strikes, two of which were intense, with plumes of smoke rising, the agency added, though the targeted location was not…

Palestinians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and East Jerusalem marked the Eid al-Adha on Friday amid continuing Israeli bombardment, military raids, and heavy restrictions.

Jerusalem

Tens of thousands of Palestinians offered Eid al-Adha prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Friday morning, despite tight Israeli restrictions and a somber atmosphere driven by the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza.

According to local estimates, around 80,000…

France on Friday dampened expectations Paris could rapidly recognise a Palestinian state, with the French foreign minister saying while it was “determined” to make such a move, recognition had to be more than “symbolic”.

France is due later this month to co-host with Saudi Arabia a UN conference in New York on a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

There had been expectations that France could recognise a Palestinian state during that conference, with…