In tents in the stifling heat and in bombed-out mosques, Gazans marked Sunday the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, devoid of the usual cheer as the Israel-Hamas war raged on. "There is no joy. We have been robbed of it," said Malakiya Salman, a 57-year-old displaced
More than 1.8 million people have gathered in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabic to perform the annual five-day rituals of Hajj.
Dozens were injured from beatings with batons and rifle butts, particularly at the King Faisal, Hatta and Al-Silsilah Gates.
Palestinians gathered to mark the holy festival of Eid al-Adha on Sunday as Israeli shelling was reported across the territory.
Israel's military said Sunday it would "pause" fighting around a south Gaza route daily to facilitate aid deliveries, following months of warnings of famine in the besieged Palestinian territory. The announcement of a "local, tactical pause of military activity" during daylight
Pilgrims performed Sunday the last major ritual of the hajj, the "stoning of the devil", in western Saudi Arabia, as Muslims the world over celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday. Beginning at dawn, the 1.8 million Muslims undertaking the pilgrimage this year threw seven stones at
Palestinian teenagers bounced on trampolines and jumped through hoops inside a towering tent on the outskirts of Ramallah, the financial hub of the occupied West Bank. But the circus students weren't the only ones bending over backwards in the pavilion: the school's director
Donald Trump extolled his powers of mental recall in a speech in Detroit, challenging Joe Biden to take the same cognitive exam he says he underwent in 2018.
Israeli army announces daily 'tactical pause,' between 8 A.M. and 7 P.M., in attempt to increase flow of aid into Gaza ■ Two reservists killed in tank explosion in northern Gaza; IDF releases names of 6 soldiers killed in Rafah armored personnel carrier explosion ■ Protesters
Adam Yates, who won stage five and was second in stage six of the Tour of Switzerland, again attacked on the final climb of a 118-kilometre double loop.
Sultan Abdul Rahman Khatatbeh, 16, was killed by Israeli fire in the northern West Bank town of Beit Furik, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels struck the Verbena in the Gulf of Aden, sparking a fire and severely injuring one of its crew, US Central Command said.
Saturday's losses were among the heaviest for the Israeli military since it began its ground offensive in Gaza on 27 October.
UNRWA has warned that with humanitarian aid restrictions, thousands of Palestinian children are in need for dire treatment due to acute malnutrition.
Iran and Sweden announced a prisoner exchange on Saturday in which a former Iranian official was released in Sweden in exchange for a European Union diplomat and a second Swede. Hamid Noury, a 63-year-old Iranian former prisons official serving a life sentence in Sweden, landed
An exiled Iranian opposition group and activists on Saturday slammed as shameful Sweden's freeing in an apparent swap for two Swedes of a former Iranian official jailed over his role in the mass executions of dissidents in 1988. Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prison official,
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Hezbollah is hitting Israel with retaliatory attacks after Israel killed one of the group's senior commanders amid fears of all out war.
Hezbollah kept up retaliatory attacks on Israel Saturday, days after a strike killed one of its commanders, while a Palestinian group said one of its fighters was killed in south Lebanon. Israel and Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, have traded near-daily cross-border fire since the
Sheikh Maher Al Muaiqly reiterated the sentiment of the Saudi government, stating the Hajj pilgrimage is strictly for worship and not politics.
It comes as Itamar Ben-Gvir attempts to place the Israeli police further under his control, with the police commissioner becoming subordinate to Gvir's office.
The Gaza-based Palestinian Legislative Council has called for international inspections of Israeli detention facilities.
Over 1.5 million pilgrims have braved extreme heat to reach Mount Arafat, which is the climax of the hajj pilgrimage, amid Israel's war on Gaza.