Authorities say 250,000 people gathered for prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque to mark Laylat al-Qadr, or Night of Power. Islamic authorities in Jerusalem say 250,000 people gathered to attend prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque to mark Laylat al-Qadr, as the holy month of Ramadan continues. The faithful congregated at theContinue Reading
Thousands of people have taken to the streets throughout many Western countries in support of the Palestinian cause of liberation from Israeli occupation and aggression. The rallies took place across Canada and European countries on Tuesday. The participants denounced the escalation of the Israeli regime’s brutal attacks on Palestinian worshippersContinue Reading
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart (not seen) following their talks in Moscow on March 16, 2022. (Via AFP) Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the United States is interested in prolonging the military conflict in Ukraine and is hindering what heContinue Reading
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took Israel’s parliament to task for failing to provide weapons in his country’s fight against Vladimir Putin, who he said was planning a Holocaust-style ‘final solution’ for his people. ‘Everybody knows that your missile defense systems are the best … and that you can definitely helpContinue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Israel grant his country control of the Alexander Courtyard in Jerusalem as the previous Israeli government had promised, in a letter delivered to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett last Sunday. According to The Jerusalem Post, Putin’s letter came barely a day after the Foreign Ministry inContinue Reading
Russia says United States is planning provocations to accuse Russian forces of using weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Ukraine in an attempt to discredit Moscow’s military operation in the former Soviet state. Igor Kirillov, the chief of Russian Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Force, made the remarks at aContinue Reading
Russia says it has “liberated” the strategic port city of Mariupol, apart from the sprawling Azovstal steel plant which Ukrainian forces have made their last stronghold. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that the Azovstal steel plant, where Ukrainian forces and hundreds of civilians haveContinue Reading
Statement by Russian Defence Ministry On March 14, at about 11.30 a.m. Moscow time, Tochka-U tactical missile was fired at a residential block of Donetsk city from the territory controlled by the Kiev nationalist regime. The shelling of the city was carried out from the north-western direction, from the areaContinue Reading
Israeli forces have placed the flashpoint neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in the occupied East al-Quds under a near-complete lockdown. The forces took the measure on Thursday, shortly after they fiercely attacked dozens of Palestinians and activists there, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported. According to Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen news network,Continue Reading