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Al-Azhar, the top Sunni Islamic scholarly institution in Egypt, yesterday condemned the fatal stabbing of a Muslim worshipper inside a mosque in the village of La Grand-Combe in the Gard region of southern France.

In a statement, Al-Azhar warned of the escalating activities of “white supremacist” groups in Europe and America, adding that these groups hide behind false and malicious slogans such as “white race” and “white nationalism” to justify their…

An explosion that rocked the Shahid Rajaee Port in the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday may have been caused by the ignition of solid missile fuel, the New York Times reported.

The paper quoted informed sources as saying that sodium perchlorate, a key component of solid missile fuel, was the substance that caused the explosion.

Spokesperson of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Fatemeh Mohajerani, said the large explosion was caused by chemicals stored at…

Houthi authorities in Yemen have ordered residents in areas under their control to immediately surrender any Starlink satellite internet equipment to the nearest telecommunications office.

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Sanaa issued a statement yesterday outlining the directive, specifying that devices must be handed over to the Public Telecommunications Corporation (PTC). It warned that failure to comply will prompt a coordinated…

Iran’s minister of interior on Monday blamed “negligence” for a massive explosion that killed 46 people at the country’s largest commercial port, with firefighters still battling a blaze at the facility two days later.

The blast took place on Saturday at the Shahid Rajaee Port in Iran’s south near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a waterway through which one-fifth of global oil output passes.

“The death toll in the Shahid Rajaee Port fire has reached 46,” the official IRNA news agency…