Anywhere between 41 to 43 million people participated in the six-day funeral ceremony for Iranâs slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iranian media report.
Iranâs Press TV called Khameneiâs funeral âthe largest procession the world has ever witnessedâ. Ceremonies took place across five cities: Tehran, Qom, Najaf, Karbala, and Mashhad.
The next phase of US-Iran talks in Doha depends on Washington implementing the memorandum of understanding it signed with Tehran, an analyst says.
Zohreh Kharazmi, a professor at the University of Tehran, told Al Jazeera she does not expect major progress on the Strait of Hormuz unless the terms of the MoU are carried out by the US.
âThe articles of the MoU should be realised to have a step forward. The ball is in the United Statesâs court,â she said.
âThere is not really an opposition in Israel when it comes to wars. When it comes to wars, to occupation, to apartheid, there is no opposition,â Gideon Levy, a columnist at Israeli newspaper Haaretz, told Al Jazeera.
âThey all think the same. There is an opposition to Netanyahu in person, a very devoted one, a very decisive one. But not against the wars,â he added.
As regional powers are discussing whether or not Lebanon is included in a deal between Iran and the US, this isnât necessarily a moment of peace here. In fact, it is a moment of danger, just like it was on April 8, when there were discussions on whether or not Lebanon was going to be included in the deal.
The Israeli prime minister and his military made it clear that it would not be, and later that afternoon it turned into the deadliest day of the war as more than 350 people were killed.
There is a positive understanding here in Tehran about this memorandum of understanding.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its spokesperson, told the media this evening that, yes, there is a proposal; it is now under consideration by the supreme leader of Iran, and also the top leaders of the country, and that it might well end in a kind of signing.
But the news about a location and timing are probably speculations at this moment.
It was April 10, 2024, during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The Gaza civil servant had been beaten, tortured, bound and forced to soil himself since his arrest by Israeli soldiers a month earlier.
The soldiers and their guard dogs surrounded him that day. âThere were six soldiers on the right and six on the left,â he recalled. âThey would ask your name. If you said âMuhammadâ, they would say, âNo, say your name is b****.ââ
Al-Bakri said he was held with seven other prisoners. They were all stripped, blindfolded and handcuffed.
âWe were raped after being stripped of our clothes,â he said. âWe were shouting, âOh Lord, oh Godâ, but they were just laughing and filming us.â Al-Bakri then echoed what several rights agencies have also reported â that guards also used dogs during the sexual abuse of prisoners. âThe dogs were following commands from the officers to [attack] us,â he said.
âThere was no mercy. We stayed in that state of sexual abuse and beatings for about 20 minutes to half an hour. Then they told us to get dressed and took us back to the prison.â
Wadephulâs bid won 104 votes in the UN General Assembly, falling 23 short of the two-thirds majority required for election.
This is the first time Germany has failed to win a rotating seat on the Security Council after decades of successfully securing one of the Western European seats every eight years.
Analysts say âstrategic leaksâ aim to influence public perceptions amid diplomatic impasse in US-Israel war on Iran.
Israel is escalating in Gaza âbecause it knows it will not encounter severe oppositionâ, and in Lebanon âbecause so far the world is letting Israel get away with itâ.
âThe value is that you can move these quickly,â she said. âThey are mobile launch systems, in some cases man-portable. We donât know how high the Reaper was flying. Based on the released video, it may have been relatively easy for them to shoot down, but it still indicates they retain some remaining air defence capability.â
Iranâs larger air defence network has been badly damaged. It was built around older radar-guided surface-to-air missile systems, including domestically produced batteries and Russian-supplied missile defence systems such as the S-300. Israeli and US attacks are widely believed to have degraded much of that network.
According to the analyst, the changes involved a ceasefire provision that was expected to cover Lebanon and the issue of unfreezing certain Iranian assets.
Ahmadian said the shift came after a phone call between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Nayef Samaro left work in Nablus to run errands for his wife, who was hours away from delivering their first son by caesarean section.
The 26-year-old soon-to-be father was excited, despite the Israeli army raiding his city.
But before the birth, an Israeli soldier shot Nayef in the head, leaving him to bleed out in the street.
He never saw his son.
Watch our report here:
A 45-year old man is occupying the top of Washingtonâs Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge to protest the war on Iran. Guido Reichstadter spoke to Al Jazeera from atop the structure – listen to what he had to say.
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Now, Hezbollah can continue to fire rockets across the border, and it has been doing that. Hezbollah has also been trying to slow Israelâs ground invasion in the south. But as you can see, Israel is the one that has the upper hand. It controls the skies, it can cause death, it can cause destruction, and this is all heaping pressure on the population and on the Lebanese government.
Hezbollah was counting on Iran having the leverage to silence this front, but that has not happened yet, despite statements from Iranian officials.
Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Wishah has been killed by an Israeli drone attack in Gaza.
We will bring you more on this shortly.
This is unprecedented really, perhaps since 1982 and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon back then. There were 100 air strikes in the span of 10 minutes, many targeting areas in Beirut that wouldnât be traditionally seen as in any way related to Hezbollah.
Israeli drones and fire from a military vehicle killed at least 10 people in an area close to the Maghazi camp in Gaza, according to reports by Al Jazeera from a source in Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
A UN staff member was also shot and killed by Israeli forces and injured three others.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) employees were travelling in a vehicle in southern Gaza when Israeli soldiers opened fire on them.
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In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, President George W Bush launched what he called a âwar on terrorâ, a global military campaign that reshaped US foreign policy and triggered wars, invasions and air strikes across numerous countries.
According to an analysis by Brown Universityâs Watson Institute of International & Public Affairs, US-led wars since 2001 have directly caused the deaths of about 940,000 people across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and other conflict zones
The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran entered its 25th day on Tuesday, as conflicting claims emerged over possible peace talks.
Iraqâs capital, Baghdad, has been rocked by a series of explosions close to the United States embassy in the cityâs heavily fortified Green Zone as the rapidly escalating US-Israeli war on Iran continued to spill over the border.
Al Jazeeraâs Assed Baig has the latest from the Iraqi capital.
Massive explosions hit several locations in Tehran overnight, including residential areas and the vicinity of Tehran University, as the war enters its seventh day.
Israeli jets have bombed southern and eastern Lebanese towns, including Douris in the Bekaa Valley, as well as targeting the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut.
With UN assessments indicating that removing debris alone could last until 2032 and a full reconstruction of Gaza stretching to 2040, the âwaitâ becomes a policy of displacement.
âTime decomposes societies,â Jabareen said.
He said Israel is betting on ârational emigrationâ â after living for years in tents, Palestinians will leave, not because they were forced by tanks, but because they were exhausted by fears over their future.
Israelâs decision to revoke the licences of 37 international NGOs, including Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has come into effect as the Israeli government pushes to demonise organisations that assist Palestinians, among them United Nations agencies, with unproven accusations of links to Hamas.
People in Gaza have started 2026 not with hope or certainty, but with despair as they face more Israeli restrictions amid a humanitarian catastrophe, Al Jazeeraâs Hani Mahmoud reports from Gaza City.
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