A controversial photo appeared this week showing leading Democratic mayoral candidate joyfully campaigning alongside Siraj Wahhaj, a widely known Brooklyn imam named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who has also been connected to other terrorist activities in the US, including calls for "jihad" in New York City.
Mohammed Nazal, a senior Hamas official, gave an interview to the Qatari channel Al-Jazeera and addressed the profile piece Israel Hayom ran on Tawfiq Abu Naim, the potential Hamas chief.
Ali Shamkhani's daughter's 1.4 billion toman wedding ceremony at Tehran's Espinas Parsian Hotel has become a focal point for Iranian social media criticism, with users contrasting the May 2024 luxury event against government calls for public patience during economic sanctions and recent announcements of expanded morality police deployment.
A stream of senior US officials is on its way to Israel in a bid to prevent the collapse of the next phase of President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan. Envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to arrive Sunday, attempting to mediate over the issue of deceased hostages. Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to arrive Tuesday for his first visit to Israel in office.
Families of Israeli hostages and survivors of captivity held a central rally Saturday evening in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, the first since the recent release of all living hostages. The gathering came as Hamas announced it would return two more deceased hostages.
