Habib Siddiqui

  BAGHDAD: Thousands ‌of people have been killed across the Middle East in the Iran war, which began when the US and Israel struck Iran on February 28, triggering Iranian attacks on Israel, US bases and Gulf states, while also opening a new front in Lebanon. Here are the latest death tolls reported, ​which Reuters has not independently verified. IRAN US-based rights group HRANA said 3,461 people have been killed since the war erupted. It said 1,551 of those were civilians, including at least 236 children. The group says its data comes from field reports, local contacts, medical and emergency sources, civil society networks, open-source materials and official statements. At least 1,900 people have been killed and 20,000 injured in Iran in the US-Israeli strikes so far, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Friday It was not clear if those figures included at least 104 people who the Iranian military said were killed in a US attack on an Iranian...

  The Iran men’s national team wore black armbands and posed with school rucksacks as the national anthem played before a match with Nigeria, to remember the victims of a strike on a primary school in Iran on the first day of the Middle East war. The air strike on the school in the southern Iranian city of Minab on February 28 killed at least 170 people, including students and teachers. Recommended Stories list of 4 items list 1 of 4 White is hero and villain on England return, Germany’s Wirtz destroys Swiss list 2 of 4 Oyarzabal double seals Spain win against Serbia in World Cup warm-up list 3 of 4 Tiger Woods released on bail hours after arrest on suspicion of DUI list 4 of 4 France calls IOC sex testing a ‘step backwards’ while Trump praises move end of list The attack happened on the day the United States and Israel launched the war with attacks across Iran. Before kickoff in their  friendly fixture against Nigeria  in the Turkish town of Belek on Friday, the Iran pla...

  London, United Kingdom –   Qesser Zuhrah, a young pro-Palestine activist who was released on bail   last month , has been arrested again. In footage shared on social media, the 21-year-old is seen on Monday morning being handcuffed by masked police officers, taken from her home in Watford, near London, and placed into a car destined for prison. Recommended Stories list of 4 items list 1 of 4 ‘Keffiyehs seized, left to die’: Inside the Palestine Action hunger strike list 2 of 4 In U-turn, UK police say Palestine Action protesters will be arrested again list 3 of 4 Palestine Action supporters arrested as London’s Met Police reverse policy list 4 of 4 Palestine aIly Ireland under fire for allowing weapons transfers to Israel end of list Lisa Minerva Luxx, a campaigner supporting Zuhrah, told Al Jazeera they believed she was arrested “because of an Instagram story she posted, which allegedly encouraged people to take ‘direct action’”. Herfordshire Police told Al Jazeer...