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US to move second aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean as Gaza tensions grow
The US has sent a second aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean.
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Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned Israel of retaliation if it enters Gaza
Iran's foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has met Qatar's Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani in Doha.
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Iran's Foreign Minister: No one can guarantee 'non-expansion’ of war if Israel invades Gaza
Protests continue around the round the world in support of Palestinians eight days into the war.
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Fears of a wider Middle Eastern conflict grow
Fears of other actors joining the Hamas-Israel conflict grow as the U.S. sends more warships to the Eastern Mediterranean — meant deter to Iran and Lebanon-based Hezbollah.
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Poilievre says Hamas is a ‘death cult’ that ‘must be stopped’
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday that 'every loss of life' in the conflict between Israel and Hamas 'is the direct consequence of Hamas's conduct.'
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Numerous countries pledge support for Israel after attack
As Canada, the U.K., U.S. and other Western countries stand firmly behind Israel, Iran denies any role in the deadly Hamas attacks.
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Iran’s Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize for rights fight
Iranian women’s rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi has won the Nobel Peace Prize “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran".
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Fighting in Syria's Deir az Zor: Ceasefire between Arab fighters and SDF falls apart
A brief ceasefire in Syria’s eastern province of Deir az Zor has fallen apart.
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Jailed Iranian Activist Gets Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for fighting oppression of women in Iran.
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Jailed Iranian women's activist wins Nobel Peace Prize
Narges Mohammadi — currently imprisoned in Iran's notorious Evin Prison — has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 'her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.'
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Netanyahu touts peace with Saudi Arabia, issues ‘nuclear’ threat to Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled his version of a new Middle East to the UN General Assembly - erasing Palestine.
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Freed Americans land in US after prisoner swap deal with Iran
Back on US soil. Five American prisoners freed from Iran as part of a prisoner exchange are reunited with their families.
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Saudi Crown Prince MBS says Israel normalisation getting ‘closer’
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) says talks with Israel to normalise relations are progressing.
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Mahsa Amini remembered with worldwide protests
Protesters have rallied in cities around the world on the anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death. The 22-year-old Kurdish woman died in custody
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Blinken has ‘emotional’ call with Americans freed from Iran
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he’s had an “emotional” conversation with the American prisoners and detainees
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Airport in Iraq’s Kurdish region hit by deadly drone attack
Airport near Sulaymaniyah targeted as Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Abdelwahed says the identity of the victims remains to be known.
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U.S. prisoners freed in swap with Iran
Five Americans imprisoned for years in Iran are finally on their way home after a high-stakes prisoner swap. The U.S. and Iran agreed to exchange prisoners and the U.S. gave Iran access to billions of dollars in oil revenue that was...
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Iraq-Iran relations: Baghdad facing deadline to disarm Kurdish fighters
Armed Kurdish groups in northern Iraq have started pulling out from areas near the border with Iran.
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Mahsa Amini One Year On
What’s changed in Iran a year since Mahsa Amini’s death? Tehran-based correspondent Maziar Motamedi explains.
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Iranian-Canadian filmmaker shines a spotlight on the repression of women and members of the LGBTQ+ community in Iran
Atefeh Khademolreza's short film Meteor, which debuted as part of TIFF’s 2023 Short Cuts program, explores the grief and defiance of women and the LGBTQ+ community in Iran.
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Why art is instrumental in amplifying Iran's Woman, Life, Freedom movement
Persis Karim, director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University, says art creates opportunities for people outside of Iran to understand the stakes in the protest movement.
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U.S. Advances in Prisoner Swap Deal With Iran
The Biden administration issued a waiver to allow banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian oil funds without facing U.S. sanctions, a key step in a prisoner swap deal.
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Will Iran's foreign policy shift threaten trade?
Jamsheed Choksy is a distinguished professor of Central Eurasian Studies and the director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University.Choksy states Iran has been rocked by domestic unrest over the past...
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Iran ramps up headscarf crackdown, human rights groups say
Human rights groups say Iran's morality police are once again harassing women for not wearing the hijab. They say the regime hopes to deter a repeat of the protest movement unleashed after the death of Mahsa Amini last September.