Hezbollah said on Sunday it was fighting Israeli forces trying to infiltrate Ramiya village in southern Lebanon, as a third UN peacekeeper was wounded in Israel’s escalating conflict with the Iran-backed Lebanese group. Israeli strikes have shaken the peacekeepers’ main base in southern Lebanon, prompting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Western countries to condemn the […]
Iran’s Supreme Court has ordered a retrial for labor rights activist Sharifeh Mohammadi and lifted her death sentence, her lawyer said on Saturday. “The Supreme Court… has overturned the verdict against my client,” lawyer Amir Raisian was cited by the reformist Shargh daily as saying. What do we know about the case? Mohammadi had been accused […]
Unifil says it refused a request by Israel to leave its positions in south Lebanon A spokesperson for UN peacekeepers in Lebanon on Saturday said that Israel had requested it leave its positions in south Lebanon where Israel is clashing with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, but they had refused. They asked us to withdraw “from […]
Iran’s second strike on Israeli soil with a barrage of missiles on October 1 marked a significant escalation in the ongoing conflict between the two regional powers. After Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July and the more recent killings of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Gen. Abbas Nilforoushan of the […]