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The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov, warned that the besieged Gaza Strip is on the verge of total economic and social collapse. Mladenov stressed that half of Gaza’s population suffers from unemployment and that basic services are severely overstretched. He further welcomed a ...

United Nations human rights experts called on Bahrain Thursday to end the repression of activists, restrictions on freedom of expression and discrimination against women. Bahrain has cracked down on perceived threats since Arab Spring protests in 2011. Protesters have clashed frequently with security forces, who have been targeted in many ...

One Palestinian was martyred and at least ten others were injured with “Israeli” live bullets on the 18th Friday of the “Great March of Return” in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that Ghazi Muhammad Abu Mustafa, 43, succumbed to wounds he sustained with ...

TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) – The IRGC’s Quds Force Commander Ghasem Soleimani in reaction to US President Donald Trump’s recent tweet against Iran said “we are closer to you than you think”, rebuking Trump for threatening Iran. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Major General Ghasem Soleimani made the ...

Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri says the country’s Armed Forces are highly prepared to give a “crushing response to any threat at any level” against the Islamic Republic. “The false assumptions that the US president has about the astonishing capabilities of the brave Iranian ...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday it has suspended most of its work in South Sudan’s northern Maban county, after protesters looted its offices and those of several humanitarian agencies. “A group of unidentified armed men broke into (the) MSF office and compound, looting the organization and staff’s properties, burning ...

Palestine’s envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour says the Israeli regime has created an apartheid state in the occupied territories by approving “the Jewish nation-state law.” Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East on Tuesday, Mansour said the Tel Aviv regime had adopted the role ...

Political experts believe that after Saudi Arabia and its regional and international allies failed to conquer Yemen’s Hudaydah port through military force, they are currently turning to diplomatic means in order to reach a settlement with the Houthi Ansarullah fighters, thus attesting to ability of the country’s popular forces to ...

The Iran men’s national basketball B team has maintained its fine style at the 2018 William Jones Cup in Taiwan, and edged past Indonesia. On Saturday, the Iranian sportsmen defeated the Indonesian squad 66-62 (23-19, 14-9, 13-18 and 16-17) in a match played at the Xinzhuang Gymnasium of New Taipei City. The Iran men’s ...

In this file picture, Yemeni forces prepare to launch a domestically-manufactured Badr-1 ballistic missile at a military site in Saudi Arabia’s southern border region of Najran. (Photo by the media bureau of Yemen’s Operations Command) Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-designed and ...