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People in cities and towns across Tehran Province will hold evening rallies on Sunday to commemorate the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, an Iranian official says.

The Islamic Jihad has praised the legacy of the late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, saying he elevated resistance into a shared struggle among Muslim nations and helped build a unified front against Israel and its allies.

Khalil al-Hayya, head of Hamas’s political bureau, has said that the Palestinian people remain the key to “regional stability,” which he said “cannot be achieved without addressing the Palestinian cause.”

At least seven Palestinians have been martyred in Zionist regime's attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, with another 38 people wounded, according to a report by the Health Ministry.

“If another war breaks out, we will undoubtedly attack and strike their vessels and destroyers, even in the Indian Ocean,” Ali Mohammadi said in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday.   The remarks came after US President Donald Trump rejected a seven-day Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which has remained under the tight grip of the Islamic Republic since the early days of the illegal US-Israeli military assault against the country.   ...

President Masoud Pezeshkian says he made use of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly to expose the unprecedented crimes of the United States and Israel against the Iranian nation and the broader West Asia region.

Khalil al-Hayya, head of Hamas’s political bureau, has paid tribute to Palestinian journalists and media workers, praising their role in conveying the truth to the world despite Israeli intimidation and targeting.

Dozens of Moroccan cities witnessed rallies and solidarity events on Friday in support of the Palestinian people and Al-Aqsa Mosque, and in condemnation of ongoing Zionist regime’s attacks.

The Secretary-General of the Iraqi Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada resistance group has urged the government and parliament to reject the “unjust siege” on Iran and not to submit to the “evil will” of the United States.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has welcomed China’s support for the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and called on the US to honor its commitments under the agreement.

Checkpoints and military gates across the West Bank are no longer merely inspection points obstructing Palestinian movement. According to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, they have evolved into an extensive system for controlling movement and access, stretching across the entrances to cities, towns and villages and along the roads connecting them.

A team of lawyers representing Palestinian victims in cases involving war crimes and crimes against humanity submitted new information and evidence to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Friday in support of the investigation into Palestinian prisoners and captives held in Zionist regime's prisons.

  UNRWA Acting Commissioner-General Christian Saunders has warned that the agency is facing an exceptional financial crisis, with an estimated cash-flow deficit of about $100 million in 2026, stressing that additional funding is urgently needed to maintain essential services for Palestine refugees.   Speaking at a ministerial meeting on UNRWA held on the sidelines of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, Saunders said conditions facing Palestine refugees are becoming ...

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has outlined a seven-day plan for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, saying implementation would begin immediately if the United States accepted Iran’s conditions.

President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned that Tehran will respond “strongly and resolutely” if the United States seeks to continue its war of aggression, stressing that Iran did not choose war and is not seeking one.

Scores of delegations have left the UN General Assembly hall shortly before Zionist regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, amid growing international isolation of the occupying regime.

The Hamas Movement strongly criticized Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly, describing it as filled with “lies and slogans” and saying it reflected the crisis facing Netanyahu amid Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has warned of an accelerating economic collapse in the Gaza Strip, describing the situation as the most severe economic crisis recorded anywhere in the world.

More than 1,000 people have signed a Palestinian petition calling for the Palestinian National Council (PNC) to be elected rather than formed through appointments, according to a document reviewed by Al-Arab in UK.

Former president Gustavo Petro has denounced the country’s new government after it withdrew Colombia’s declaration of intervention in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The Hamas Movement on Wednesday evening hailed the ramming attack near the Beit Ur checkpoint west of Ramallah, describing it as a “natural response” to escalating settler attacks and continued Israeli violations against Palestinians.

The displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is expanding at an accelerating pace in 2026, amid rising demolitions, settler attacks and restrictions on Palestinians’ access to their land and sources of livelihood.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian delivered a critique of Western hypocrisy at the UN General Assembly and, declaring that lasting peace in West Asia is impossible without justice for Palestine.

The mass departure of 77 delegations from the United Nations General Assembly hall ahead of Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech sparked widespread reaction on social media, with users describing the scene as a major rebuke of Israel and a sign of its growing international isolation.

Yemeni armed forces shoot down a Saudi Wing Loong 2 as it was conducting hostile missions over Mokha on the western coast.

Iran’s Armed Forces are fully prepared to deploy “new equipment and military tactics” to decisively expel hostile forces from West Asia if they dare to repeat their aggression, says a military official.

A senior military advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has warned that any foreign forces attempting to land on Iranian territory as part of a potential invasion “will be destroyed,” pointing to the country’s immense pool of trained personnel capable of defending the nation through asymmetric warfare.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that Zionist regime’s violence, forced displacement and settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank are undermining prospects for peace and raising the “specter of ethnic cleansing.”

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has urged students to pursue knowledge, skills and ethics, describing education as a defense tool against the US-Israeli aggression.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the influence of the Zionist lobby in Washington has reached a level where Zionist lobbyists openly boast about their control over US foreign policy.

President Masoud Pezeshkian has pledged to firmly defend Iran’s position and convey the country’s strength to the world during his upcoming address to the UN General Assembly and the meetings he is scheduled to hold on the sidelines.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the United States and the Zionist regime must sooner or later accept a region free of their "evil and criminal presence."

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said the Zionist regime’s occupation army’s continued killing of women and children in the Gaza Strip, including on Monday, represents an escalation of the ongoing genocide, despite the ceasefire agreement signed in Sharm el-Sheikh nearly a year ago.

The spokesperson for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran will begin reverse-engineering a US underwater drone captured by IRGC Navy forces.

More than 160 athletes have signed an open letter to the Irish soccer team asking them to boycott their Nations League’s fixtures against Zionist regime.

Zionist regime’s forces raided several areas of Tulkarm in the northern occupied West Bank on Sunday and posted notices placing a Muslim shrine under the authority of the Zionist regime’s Antiquities Authority, according to official Palestinian media.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Zionist regime’s ongoing crimes against Palestinians, calling for urgent international action to stop the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.

NGO Network warned that the health system in Gaza Strip is approaching a complete collapse, amid the ongoing siege and restrictions imposed on the entry of medical and operational supplies, and the accompanying continuous decline in the ability of hospitals and health facilities to provide their services to the sick and wounded.

High-ranking commanders of the Yemeni army have sternly warned Saudi officials against their ongoing attacks and blockade, stressing that Yemen’s military units will, in response, target energy infrastructure deep inside the kingdom and destroy its economy.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Aerospace Force has intercepted and destroyed another MQ-1 drone belonging to the US military over the Strait of Hormuz.

Any new attack on Iran will prompt significant changes in the geography of the war and the weapons used, says the spokesman of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has said that Israel’s decades-long occupation, terrorism, violations of international law and “unprecedented crimes” in the occupied Palestinian territories have dealt severe blows to the credibility and standing of the United Nations and international law.

Iran’s joint operational military command has warned the United States and regional countries that any aggression against Iran will trigger sustained and “painful” retaliatory attacks on US positions and interests across the region.

Hojat-ol-Islam Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, the secretary general of the Iran-based Society in Defense of the Palestinian Nation (SDPN) wrote a letter to Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen's Ansarullah and congratulated the victories achieved by the heroic people of Yemen and the commanders of Ansarullah.

The Palestinian ministry of education has announced the start of the 2026/27 academic year in the Gaza Strip amid extremely difficult educational and humanitarian conditions resulting from the ongoing war.

Iranian armed forces spokesman has rejected the latest “false and ridiculous” US claims about the Strait of Hormuz, saying the initiative in the strategic waterway is firmly in Iran’s hands.

The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah’s secretary-general has underlined Iran’s victorious confrontation against unprovoked American-Israeli aggression.

Iran’s top security official says the country remains committed to its policy of non-weaponization of its nuclear program, adding that withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is possible in response to military and political threats from the United States and the Zionist regime.

The martyr toll from the Zionist regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,910 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday morning.

Newly released images reveal the aftermath of an Iranian retaliatory strike on a US base in Kuwait, revealing severe damage to several structures, including a bunker and the base’s airfield.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed Friday prayer at Aqsa Mosque despite Zionist regime’s police forces imposing tight restrictions around Occupied Al-Quds Old City and the holy site and preventing dozens of worshipers from reaching it ahead of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

The Palestine Information Center (Ma’ta) documented 1,684 violations by Zionist regime’s occupation forces and settlers against Palestinians and their property across the West Bank and Al-Quds between September 11 and 17, 2026, indicating an escalation in attacks and violations targeting Palestinians and their property.

Sirens warning of incoming missiles and unmanned combat aerial vehicles launched from Yemen have sounded in the Saudi capital Riyadh and elsewhere in the kingdom.

The leader of the Ansarullah movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, has condemned Saudi Arabia’s allegations that Yemeni forces have targeted the holy city of Mecca, dismissing the claims as a "major, ugly, and heinous lie" designed to justify Riyadh's ongoing aggression.

The number of Palestinian journalists currently held in Zionist regime’s prisons has risen to 39 following the arrest of journalist Alaa al-Rimawi in Ramallah early on Thursday, amid an ongoing escalation in Israeli measures targeting Palestinian journalists and obstructing their work documenting events and violations.

The overall martyr toll from Zionist regime’s attacks on Lebanon since October 8, 2023, has risen to 8,953 martyred and 30,643 injured, the Lebanese Health Ministry announced on Thursday evening, as Zionist regime’s attacks continue across several areas of southern Lebanon.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force has downed the 53rd US MQ-9 drone since the beginning of the US-Israeli aggression against Iran, the latest in a series of American unmanned aircraft destroyed by the country’s armed forces during the war.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has announced that the offending Togo-flagged oil tanker Trend was struck and brought to a halt after a fire broke out aboard the vessel as it attempted an illegal passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

Zionist regime’s forces have abducted Press TV correspondent Naqqa Hamed at a military checkpoint near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

Since the beginning of 2026, 6,600 people have been abducted and 107 Palestinians martyred in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestine Information Center (Moata).