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Iran’s UN envoy: Israeli regime internationally accountable for aggression, deaths of Iranian civilians  PressTV

TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) – Iran severely targeted the naval fleet the criminal Zionist regime on Wednesday, Army Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani has said on Wednesday.

TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) – More than 100 targets deep inside the occupied lands and territories were hit in the 61st wave of Operation “True Promise-4”, the Public Relations Office of IRGC said.

Iran executes man convicted of spying for Israel Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel, according to the judiciary’s Mizan news agency. The man was found guilty of providing Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, with photos and information about sensitive sites in Iran, Mizan said. Iran has carried out several executions in recent years of individuals accused of links to Israeli intelligence, amid ongoing tensions between the two countries. On Monday, Iran’s intelligence organisation in Khorasan Razavi arrested 10 suspected foreign-linked “mercenary elements” accused of espionage activities.

The Food Foundation said 12% of UK households experienced food insecurity in January, including 6.3 million adults, up from 11% in June last year.

Pakistan’s Minister for Information “strongly” rejects the claim Pakistan was behind an air strike on a Kabul hospital.

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A top Trump aide resigned over Iran. Liberals should stay away from him.  Vox

Leqaa Kordia, longest-detained pro-Palestine protester, freed from ICE custody MEE staff on Tue, 03/17/2026 - 15:13 A US immigration judge set her bond at $100,000, despite her not being a flight risk Leqaa Kordia poses for a photo after her release from the Prairieland detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, on 16 March 2026 (Gazamom/X) Off After spending two consecutive Ramadans behind bars, Leqaa Kordia was freed from US immigration detention on Monday, in what her lawyers have described as a "staggering" $100,000 bond. Her legal team said the bond was "nonetheless...paid immediately".  The 33-year-old Palestinian immigrant, whose home is in New Jersey, was released from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, after the Trump administration chose not to challenge what was a third release order by an immigration judge.  It had previously appealed the first and second orders for her release.  "I’m free! I’m free! Finally, after one year," Kordia said as she walked out to a group of waiting supporters, with a Palestinian keffiyeh draped around her shoulders.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); “There is a lot of injustice in this place,” she added. “There is a lot of people that shouldn’t be here in the first place.” Kordia's cousin, Hamzah Abushaban, told Middle East Eye on Tuesday that Kordia was in relatively good spirits and already at the mosque for Ramadan prayers by Monday evening.  "It was an extremely emotional day" for me, he said of receiving the call about Kordia's release. Abushaban is based in South Florida. "I had to pull over at a random gas station to process it all, and started crying," he said.  Last month, Kordia had to be hospitalised after fainting, hitting her head, and suffering a seizure. She had never experienced seizures before, her family said. Targeted for Gaza protests: The Palestinian still in US custody Read More » While in hospital for three days, Kordia was chained to the bed before being taken back to the detention centre. Her lawyers also expressed concerns about her weight loss. New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani said on social media that he raised Kordia's case with President Donald Trump during their meeting last month, adding that he is "grateful" for her release after she spoke up for "Palestinian rights".  Of all the arrests linked to pro-Palestine campus protests made by the Trump administration last year, Kordia was the last one still languishing in detention.  "This is a one hundred percent Islamophobic, anti-Palestinian liberation issue because she spoke out against Israel," Abushaban told MEE.  "It's heartbreaking...it's not the America I thought I was born in," he added. During a trial last year in a separate case, American Association of University Professors v Rubio, which sought to challenge Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s alleged “policy of ideological deportation”, US officials revealed that they had relied on the pro-Israel doxxing site Canary Mission to identify students for immigration detention. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Legal status The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) maintains that Kordia did not have lawful status at the time she was arrested in New Jersey on 13 March 2025, and issued a statement the following day, insisting she was "overstaying her expired F-1 student visa", which had been terminated on 26 January 2022 for "lack of attendance". The DHS also cited Kordia's arrest by the New York Police Department in April 2024 during a protest against Israel's war on Gaza, organised by Columbia University students. The police, however, had arrested several students at the time, and Kordia was eventually let go after charges against her were dropped.  She was enrolled at Columbia and had joined the protest as a show of solidarity.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "It is true that at that time she did not have lawful status," Amal Thabateh, a staff attorney at Clear, who is working on Kordia's case, previously told MEE.  US appeals court opens door to re-arrest Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil Read More » She thought she was close to becoming a lawful permanent resident because her US-citizen family had filed for that status on her behalf, Thabateh explained. But after receiving "faulty advice" from a mentor, Kordia voluntarily signed a termination notice, withdrawing from the F-1 visa programme and leaving her entirely out of status.  "We all know based on how other cases have gone, and just routinely [that] this happens all the time where people have losses in status," Thabateh told MEE. "They're in transition periods... and that's quickly solved and fixed." But that wasn't the case in what is now the era of enforcement under US President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown targeting pro-Palestine voices.  "The ways in which the government has criminalised the visa overstay is just another attempt to target Palestinian rights activists," Thabateh said. "The question is not whether overstaying a visa is criminal or a violation, but instead it's whether the ways in which Leqaa has been punished and targeted, whether that is a justification for very innocently following false advice about her immigration status."  Kordia arrived in the US from the occupied West Bank in 2016 on a Palestinian Authority passport, and was initially a visitor before adjusting her status to a student, as she began learning English. She has lost 200 extended family members to Israel's genocide in Gaza.  Thabateh told MEE that Kordia voluntarily went to meet with immigration agents after learning that people who knew her were being questioned about her life, and that agents had also approached her home.  It was during that meeting in Newark, New Jersey, on 13 March, that she was served with a notice to appear in court and then taken to the Texas facility overnight.  Kordia frequently described poor and discriminatory treatment at the Prairieland Detention Facility to her legal team, including inedible food, unsanitary conditions, and no religious accommodations.  US Muslims News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

Home secretary Yvette Cooper says this amounts to a third of those who were in region at outset of hostilities The number of UK nationals flown back from the Middle East since the start of the conflict with Iran reached 100,000 on Tuesday, Britain’s foreign secretary has said. This is a third of the 300,000 who were in the region at the outset of hostilities, Yvette Cooper told parliament, many of whom were stuck when airspace was closed. The figure included tourists and Gulf residents who have temporary left. Continue reading...

BERLIN, March 17 (Reuters) - More than 36,000 Palestinians in the West Bank were forcibly displaced over a year by Israeli settlement expansion and associated violence, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday. The United Nations said in a report covering 12 months to October 31, 2025, that Israel had accelerated the annexation of large parts of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The report cites monitoring and information gathering by the U.N.'s regional office, government sources and NGOs as its sources.

Body's human rights chief says over 36,000 Palestinians displaced in October 2024-October 2025, charges that Israeli authorities played 'central role' in enabling this The post UN raises concerns of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in mass displacement of West Bank Palestinians appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Inspectors from the Israel Antiquities Authority's Theft Prevention Unit say looters are exploiting the wartime security situation to plunder historical treasures The post Police detain suspected antiquities thieves before sheltering with them under rocket fire appeared first on The Times of Israel.

The president of the Iranian football federation had earlier said that Iran was ‘negotiating’ with Fifa to move its games to Mexico

Trump says a former president had an Iran confession. Aides to his predecessors deny recent contact  AP News

Iran says it seized hundreds of Starlink devices Iranian intelligence says it has confiscated hundreds of Starlink devices across the country. The official Iranian Mehr news agency, citing the Ministry of Intelligence, reported that authorities seized the equipment sent by the “American-Zionist enemy.” Officials said the devices formed part of foreign efforts to undermine Iran.

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, March 17 (Reuters) - Civilians are paying a heavy price as the war in Lebanon continues to expand, driving death, injuries and displacement the United Nations said on Tuesday. "Displacement is increasing incredibly quickly. Right now, hundreds of thousands of people left their homes. Many leaving with very little, just the clothes they were wearing," said the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Imran Riza.

China says to provide humanitarian assistance to Iran, Middle East nations China said on Tuesday it will provide humanitarian assistance to Middle Eastern countries, including Iran and Lebanon, targeted in US and Israeli strikes in the now three-week war. "China has decided to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to Iran, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. It is hoped this will help alleviate the humanitarian plight faced by the local populations," foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a press conference.

US president Donald Trump said last week he did not think it was “appropriate” for Iran to be at the World Cup “for their own life and safety”.

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