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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.

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 ...

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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).

The Zionist regime’s occupation forces raided several cities, towns and villages across the West Bank early Wednesday, carrying out home searches, arrests and detentions amid extensive military activity in several areas.

Newly revealed photographs show extensive damage to buildings, vehicles, and military equipment at multiple US positions across West Asia following Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone strikes, according to a report.

Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip has not spared the agricultural sector from destruction, with damage affecting land, crops, water sources and irrigation networks. Areas that can be accessed and cultivated have shrunk to a marginal share, threatening to keep the territory dependent on imports and food aid.

Gaza’s healthcare system is facing an imminent threat of collapse as fuel reserves across 13 private health facilities near total depletion, threatening to stop critical surgical, maternity, and trauma services for the wounded.

The commander of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran’s enemies are “bewildered and astonished” at the sheer extent of public support the Iranian nation has shown for the armed forces.

Gaza’s healthcare system is facing an imminent threat of collapse as fuel reserves across 13 private health facilities near total depletion, threatening to stop critical surgical, maternity, and trauma services for the wounded.

Al-Quds International Institution (QII) has urged Muslim worshipers to march en masse to the Aqsa Mosque, calling on them to defy Zionist regime’s restrictions on entering the holy site, particularly during Jewish holidays.

The Hamas Movement has warned against the escalating settler violations at the Aqsa Mosque, describing them as “attempts to impose a new religious reality and change the Mosque’s historical and legal status quo.”

Zionist regime’s culture minister has vowed to revoke the citizenship of two Israeli filmmakers after their documentary on the Gaza war won a major prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Senior Hamas official Ali Baraka has stressed that 33 years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, the agreement has failed to deliver freedom, independence, or security for the Palestinian people, and has neither ended the occupation nor guaranteed refugees’ right of return.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says an understanding expected to be reached with Oman does not mean the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, stressing that Iran’s condition for reopening the strategic waterway is the return of the United States to its commitments under the Islamabad memorandum of understanding.

Israeli forces have ramped up attacks targeting homes and civilian infrastructure in southern Lebanon, and separately shelled the vicinity of Beit Jinn village in the Damascus countryside of southern Syria.

About 1,236 extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards under police guard during the past week.

President Masoud Pezeshkian says Iran will not be forced into submission, while questioning the rationale behind the countless instances of unprovoked American aggression against civilian targets.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has rejected US attempts to invoke the anniversary of the September 11 attacks to justify a “reckless and unlawful war” against Iran, saying Washington’s narrative on terrorism is riddled with fundamental contradictions.

A mass dinner intended to commemorate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, on the tourist island of Phuket in Thailand has been cancelled after a pro-Palestinian protest nearby.

The French public broadcaster France Télévisions has removed the replay of a program in which actress Adèle Haenel denounced Zionist regime’s genocide in Gaza and France’s complicity.

President Masoud Pezeshkian has urged BRICS members to build a resilient trade network and expand the use of national currencies to strengthen economic cooperation and reduce vulnerability to political shocks.

The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces says the country’s military units have taken control of hundreds of kilometers of land in the country’s strategic western provinces of Hudaydah and Ta’izz, and are making a rapid advance toward the vital Bab al-Mandab Strait in a major blow to Saudi-backed mercenaries.