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Former US vice president told an online fundraiser by members of the Jewish community in the US that he was opposed to the move. US Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden has voiced his strongest criticism yet of Israel’s plan to annex the occupied West Bank. The former vice president was …

Pakistan had resumed domestic flights earlier this week ahead of Eid al Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan after a countrywide Covid-19 lockdown since mid-March, Airbus says it would provide technical assistance to investigators. Ninety-seven people were killed and two survived when a passenger plane …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says museums and historical sites are to reopen on Sunday to coincide with the Eid al-Fitr celebrations that end the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. Holy shrines will reopen Monday, Rouhani told a meeting of the National Headquarters for Managing and Fighting the Coronavirus in …

Iraqi President Barham Salih held a phone call with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Friday. The two leaders exchanged greetings for Sunday’s Ramadan Bayram, also known as Eid al-Fitr while discussing bilateral ties, regional developments, and cooperation in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The Iraqi-Turkish border was …

Joe Biden, the presumptive presidential candidate for the Democratic party in the 2020 election, told a black reporter that African-Americans who don’t know if they’re on his side or Trump’s “ain’t black.” The exchange happened on an episode of The Breakfast Club, a radio show featuring celebrity interviews during which …

Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan has promised an investigation after a passenger plane with 98 people on board crashed near Karachi, with dozens believed to have been killed. The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK8303 was on a routine domestic service between Lahore to Karachi and was almost at the …

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah described former Head of Al-Quds Force in Iran’s IRGC Qassem Suleimani as the ‘great martyr of Al-Quds’, promising him to fulfill his dream of liberating Al-Quds and Palestine. In a united address by leaders of Resistance movements on the occasion of Al-Quds Day, Sayyed …

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are marking International Quds Day by holding various events. Resistance groups have held a press conference to draw attention to the Palestinian cause and slam the normalization of ties between some Arab countries and the Israeli regime.

World Quds Day ceremonies were virtually held in the presence of some officials, students, Iranians as well as the Indians in cyberspace in New Delhi, Hyderabad, and other Indian cities on Friday. During the event that was held virtually by the Union of Islamic Student Associations of India, the speakers …

Under the slogan” Al-Quds, the path of Martyrs “, a car rally was held on Friday in Syria marking the International al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, in compliance with the precautionary measures taken to tackle the coronavirus. The rally set off from Umayyad Square in Damascus towards Mazzeh highway to al-Akram Mosque …

On the occasion of International Quds Day, we reached out to some experts, politicians, and religious figures to share their viewpoints with our readers on the important issue of Palestine. The International Quds Day is an annual event during which demonstrators express their solidarity with the Palestinian people and opposition …

The first question to be asked about the reason behind the organizing of the International Quds Day is, ‘what is the importance and impact of this day?’ Was the naming of this day by the founder of the Islamic Revolution of Iran just a simple gesture to perpetuate this national …

Aydinlik Newspaper author, Ercan Dolapci, says some Arab states, deeply influenced by the US, have put the issue of Palestine into a dead end by their wrong attitudes, adding that the Quds Day belongs to the Muslim World for unity and solidarity and the Palestinians will eventually win. “America has …

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the struggle to liberate Palestine is an obligation and an Islamic goal, adding “everyone must assist the Palestinian nation in this holy struggle”. “The struggle to liberate Palestine is Jihad in the way of God, and it is an obligation …

Quds Day is an internationally commemorated day instituted by Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to garner worldwide support for the oppressed Palestinian people. Needless to say, this day of international protest against the Zionist apartheid regime’s policies in the Occupied Palestinian …

This year, the International Al-Quds Day called by Imam Khomeini is commemorated by the Palestinians under exceptional circumstances as a result of political pressures and ongoing conspiracies. The positions and actions carried out by Trump, transferring the US Embassy to Al-Quds and Judaization, settlement and falsification of history and change …

The group of high-profile Republican strategists-in-exile who oppose Donald Trump released another advertisement this week to get under the president’s skin, this time playing to his reported insecurities about his 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale. “Meet Brad Parscale — from dead broke, to the man Trump can’t win without,” the …

Hundreds of people have been killed in a new burst of intercommunal violence in South Sudan, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday, with “many more” injured and thousands displaced. Among those killed in Jonglei state were a local Red Cross volunteer and a nurse working with the …

President Trump on Wednesday threatened to halt federal funding to Michigan and Nevada over the distribution of absentee ballots in those states amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that has left more than 90,000 Americans dead. “Breaking: Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General …

UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov’s statements came after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly announced he is ending “all agreements” with Israel and the US in response to Israeli plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov on Wednesday called on Israel to …