Tag: Iran

Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, launched a series of rocket strikes that hit major cities across Israel, and it sent waves of fighters across the border into southern Israel, where they took over bases and seized hostages.

The sharp rebuke comes as the London-based watchdog launches its annual report at a news conference at its office in Beirut.

NORTH Korea has dismissed as “a farce” the US State Department’s annual report on the freedom of belief in the world, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Thursday.

IRAN'S foreign ministry warned Malaysia on Wednesday against executing two Iranian women convicted of trafficking methamphetamine into the Southeast Asian country.

ARGUING that sending billions of taxpayer dollars overseas to hostile countries is "unconscionable", a US lawmaker has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to limit American aid to Pakistan and four other countries.

TEHRAN has launched its second domestically built guided-missile destroyer in the Caspian Sea, Iranian state TV reported on Sunday.

INDIAN-origin British author Salman Rushdie has been named in the 'most-wanted list of Islam critics to kill' released by al-Qaida in the new issue of its English online magazine.

IRAN'S supreme leader on Thursday strongly rejected proposals for direct talks with the United States, effectively quashing suggestions for a breakthrough one-on-one dialogue on the nuclear standoff and other issues.

MUSLIM-majority countries score worst across a range of measures in a comprehensive new study tracking government restrictions on religion as well as social hostilities involving religion around the world.