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Ceremonies to mark the 28th demise anniversary of the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini were staged in a magnificent manner in Tehran. The ceremonies are no longer ceremonial rather it has accommodated a new revolutionary concept

Hackers have released email exchanges between the Emirati ambassador to the US and top foreign policy figures that include details of a forthcoming meeting between UAE officials and a pro-Israel think tank, Middle East Eye reported on Saturday.

Israel’s successive governments have spent 20 billion dollars on the construction and expansion of settlements in the West Bank since 1967

A senior delegation of the Hamas Movement arrived in Cairo on Sunday to discuss with Egyptian officials bilateral relations and Palestinian developments.

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have cut diplomatic ties and all land sea and air contacts with Qatar, accusing the Persian Gulf country of supporting terrorism and interfering in their internal affairs

The announcement came in response to Jibril Rajoub's offer that Palestinians may keep the al-Aqsa Mosque and in return al-Buraq Wall would be under Israeli sovereignty

Israel developed a secret contingency plan to move an atomic device atop a mountain in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and detonate it in a display of force during the Six-Day War in 1967

Ayatollah Khamenei says the Islamic Revolution gave identity and independence to Iranian society by toppling the previous tyrannical regime.

The Hamas Movement on Friday organized a popular march in support of the Aqsa Mosque and against Israel’s ongoing violations in the occupeid al-Quds

The year 1967 was not the actual beginning of the occupation of Quds (‘Jerusalem’); the occupation began after the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate and the beginning of the British Mandate in Palestine in 1922.

Palestinian officials say Israeli military forces have killed 3,000 Palestinian minors and injured many more since the Second Intifada (uprising), also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada, took place in September 2000.

Bloomberg says US President Donald Trump’s two-day effort to recast his administration’s ties with the Muslim world sounded starkly different in homes across the Middle East, “where there’s deep distrust of U.S. intentions and entrenched cynicism over autocratic local leaders who often fail to deliver on heady promises.”

Western media kept a political reticence concerning the Israeli attack in 2009 on a siege busting flotilla that was heading for the besieged Gaza Strip, a senior Iranian pro-Palestinian activist slammed.

Hamas strongly condemned on Thursday the appointment of Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon as deputy president of the 72nd UN General Assembly.

Palestinian economist Maher al-Tabba' says Ramadan of 2017 will be the hardest for the Gaza Strip in decades due to the tightening of the siege and the internal division.

US President Donald Trump is expected this week to delay relocating the U.S. Embassy in Israel to the occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem') from Tel Aviv

Iran has been distributing Iftar meals in Gaza since the start of the holy month of Ramadan. The number of the meals will reach 250 thousand.

The Palestinian Ministry of Education launched a “Carnival of Freedom” on Tuesday across the occupied West Bank to send a message to the world

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has condemned Israel’s oppressive occupation and its damaging effects on Palestinians’ everyday lives, expressing concerns about the regime forces’ use of lethal force against Palestinians.

The agreement includes allowing regular family visits, improving the conditions of these visits, lifting the security ban imposed on thousands of prisoners' relatives

Beit Jeez located 9.3 miles SE of Ramlah was one of hundreds of Palestinian villages obliterated by the occupying Israeli army.

The Hamas Movement has strongly condemned the Israeli occupation government for holding its weekly cabinet meeting beneath al-Buraq or Western Wall of the Aqsa Mosque

Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed on Monday morning Al-Aqsa Mosque compound from Mughrabi Gate

HRW said Israel was seeking to make the Palestinian natives of occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem') a minority in their own city by stepping up the demolition of their homes

Qasem Shiasi is a Palestinian citizen with an Iranian origin who departed Iran for Palestine to fight against Israel. He now wishes to return home.

Qasem Shiasi is a Palestinian citizen with an Iranian origin who departed Iran for Palestine to fight against Israel. He now wishes to return home

Abas Ali Akhtari

Israeli authorities have agreed to a deal with the Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Israeli jails over the past 40 days.

The United Nations (UN) has raised the alarm over the health conditions of hunger-striking Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons.

Hezbollah Secretary General says when southern Lebanon was occupied by Israel, no country in the world except Iran and Syria helped the country to end occupation.

More than 500 Israeli settlers on Wednesday morning desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards under tight police protection.

A senior anti-Israeli activist in Iran says Qatar’s move to recal its ambassadors from Saudi Arabia following the latter’s colossal arms deal with the US was motivated by the fear that the deal would lead to the emergence of another Saddam Hussein in the region.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the deadly crackdown by Bahraini security forces on protesters was the outcome of US President Donald Trump "cozying up" to despots during a recent visit to Saudi Arabia.

Iranian General Qasem Suleimani has sent a message of congratulations to Hamas political bureau chief (at abroad), Ismail Haniya after the latter’s appointment to his current post.

It is imperative for all countries who have fallen victim to the extremist and terrorist acts and ideologies to unite for a serious, targeted and sincere fight against Takfiri terrorism

Bahraini regime forces have stormed into the residence of Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of the country’s Shia majority in a northwestern village, arresting everyone inside the house. It is not yet clear whether Sheikh Qassim himself is among the detainees.

The US president Donald Trump arrived in Tel Aviv on Monday afternoon and was received by the Israeli president Reuven Rivlin, premier Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet ministers.

The Hamas Movement has said that US president Donald Trump’s speech on Sunday in Saudi Arabia carried a bad message to the region and was intended to divide the Muslim nation.

The Israeli occupation police have declared their security preparations and measures in the occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem') have been ramped up for the upcoming visit of US president Donald Trump and the annual flag dance parade, which thousands of Jewish settlers participate in.

FIFA chief's words ring hollow when looking at how FIFA once again shirked the facts and avoided a decision on the question of football clubs in Israeli settlements.

Two former directors of Israel’s Mossad spy agency have attacked US President Donald Trump for his alleged sharing of highly classified, Israeli-obtained “intelligence” with Russia.

Abbas will propose exchanging 6.5 percent of the Palestinian territory with Israel, more than triple the amount put forward in a previous land-swap initiative.

US daily New York Times says Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia underscored the calculation he and his foreign policy advisers have made when it comes to questions of human rights around the world.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has issued a message commending the Iranian people for their "massive and epic" turnout in the country's twin elections.

Palestinians have continued to be transferred between Israeli prisons and to prison field clinics as the health conditions of some 1,300 hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners have continued to deteriorate as they entered the 33rd day of the mass strike on Friday

Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah fighters and their allies in the army have reportedly fired a long-range ballistic missile at the Saudi capital Riyadh, a few hours ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to the Arab kingdom.

Hundreds of Palestinians in the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories commemorated the 69th anniversary of the Tantura massacre which was committed by the Zionist gangs against unarmed inhabitants of Tantura village, to the south of Haifa

42 million Iranians out of 56 eligible have voted in the 12th presidential elections setting an epic turnout, Iranian Interior Ministry announced.

At least 48 Palestinians were detained by Israeli forces across the occupied Palestinian territory overnight.

An Israeli minister says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be assassinated, a day after the US leveled fresh allegations against the Damascus government.

Britain's opposition Labour Party has announced in its General Election manifesto that a Labour government will “immediately recognize” a state of Palestine if the party wins the June 8 vote.

Human rights activists have shut down the United Nations office in the West Bank city of Ramallah to denounce the world body’s silence on a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails as the protest action enters its 31st day.

Prominent Iranian thinker Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi says “the world is re-identifying itself amid a reformation of traditional global structures.”

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran is preparing for its presidential elections in a secure and calm environment at the heart of a region rife with unrest.

Senior US sources said US President Donald Trump has already decided to extend the order which prevents the US Embassy in Israel from being transferred from Tel Aviv to the occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem').

Iranian political expert Hossein Rouyvaran says a next Iranian president should promote convergence with the Muslim community in order to enhance the economic development in the Islamic Republic. The expert told the Qods News Agency (Qodsna) that at present over 90 percent of Iran’s trade exchanges are made with the Muslim community and that the West would not help Iran to develop. The expert was asked about the desired approach of a next Iranian president with the Iranian ...

Qods News Agency (Qodsna):  The Iranian presidential election comes amid hostile efforts by three groups of adversaries of the Islamic Republic in the region who wish to see the election disrupted. On the one hand, there are countries which are ruled by totalitarian governments who never allow their people to decide their fate. The rulers are afraid about a democratic country on the neighboring side and seek to prevent their people from accommodating the idea of republic system. The ...

Brazilian cartoonist, Carlos Latuff penned a cartoon in solidarity with the national campaign.

Israeli settlers and Antiquity Authority staff members, escorted by Israeli troops, stormed on Wednesday morning the al-Aqsa Mosque

Israel approved Wednesday the construction of 212 new settlement units in Pisgat Ze'ev and Ramat Shlomo settlements illegally built in occupied al-Quds