By Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera Tehran, Iran – Conservative judiciary head Ebrahim Raisi has been elected Iran’s eighth president, the interior ministry has announced. The ministry confirmed on Saturday that Raisi won 61.95 percent of the vote on a voter turnout…
By Setareh Jalali 23-year-old prominent activists Muna al-Kurd and Mohammed al-Kurd were released from custody yesterday after they were held by Israeli police for several hours. Nabil al-Kurd, father of the twins, said Muna was arrested after police raided their…
By Al Jazeera Palestinian group Hamas has promised not to touch “a single cent” of international aid to rebuild the besieged Gaza Strip after Israel bombarded the enclave for 11 days. Yahya Sinwar, the head of the group’s political wing…
By Amir Tal, Andrew Carey and Angela Dewan JERUSALEM — Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire, after more than a week of conflict left hundreds dead, most of them Palestinians. The truce signals an end…
By Adam Rasgon Since Covid-19 first emerged in the blockaded Gaza Strip, a shortage of medical supplies has allowed authorities to administer only a relatively tiny number of coronavirus tests. Now, the sole laboratory in Gaza that processes test results has…
By Al Jazeera Several Democratic members of the House of Representatives have spoken out against the United States’ military support for Israel and called for the protection of Palestinians’ rights, in contrast to other Democrats and Republicans who expressed their…
By Maziar Motamedi TEHRAN, Iran – Controversial former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has once more signed up to become Iran’s next president, but the anticipated top candidates for the June election have yet to register. The ultraconservative, who was president from 2005…
By Al Jazeera The head of the Arab League has condemned deadly Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip as “indiscriminate and irresponsible” and said Israel had provoked an earlier increase in violence by its actions in Jerusalem. The violence…
By Maziar Motamedi The short presidential election season in Iran has kicked off as several candidates registered to become part of what promises to be a crowded field. From early Tuesday morning, dozens of personnel at the interior ministry sat…
By Linah Alsaafin Dozens of Palestinians are facing imminent dispossession from their homes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in what they say is a move to force them out and replace it entirely with a Jewish…