The National Security Committee of the Iranian Parliament will hold an extraordinary meeting in connection with the assassination of Ismail Haniya, the head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, in Tehran. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkiyan commented on Haniya's murder.

A man who was going to a mosque in the US state of Philadelphia was shot dead by an unknown person. The killer did not stop shooting even after the victim fell to the ground and then fled in his car. An investigation is currently underway by the police.

Israeli warplanes attacked one of the buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, in order to kill Fouad Shukr, one of the high-ranking commanders of Hezbollah, a senior military adviser to Hassan Nasrullah and the head of the high-precision missile project. According to the sources, Fuad Shukr left the building before the attack, three people - a woman and two children were killed in the incident, many people were injured.

The head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniya, who went to Tehran to participate in the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkiyan, was assassinated. Haniya and one of his bodyguards were killed.

In the early months of the war, the death toll was calculated only by counting the bodies that arrived at hospitals and by providing information including the names and passport numbers of the victims. As the conflict continued, with most hospitals and morgues out of business, authorities had to resort to other methods.

The Taliban government has announced that it has severed consular relations with a number of embassies in Afghanistan that remain loyal to the former administration in the West. No country has yet officially recognized the Taliban government, which has ruled the country since 2021, but over the past three years, Kabul has appointed ambassadors to embassies in some neighboring countries.

It has been 298 days since Israel launched its war of aggression and destruction in the Gaza Strip. 24 hours of major events in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the entire Middle East.

Hezbollah has successfully exploited Lebanon's mountainous terrain to create a network of tunnels that help resistance fighters hide from Israeli airstrikes. According to retired Brigadier General Fadi Daoud, the possibility of using tunnels as shelters and attacking from underground in the most unexpected places "zeroes out all the military advantages of the enemy."

The Council of Ulama of the Islamic Center of Tajikistan issued a fatwa banning women from wearing tight black dresses. "In order to protect the stability and security of the society, to respect the religious and national standards of ethics, the population should refrain from wearing any clothes that are foreign to our culture, religion and nation, that are not compatible with morals, and are promoted for malicious purposes," reads the fatwa.

Deputies of the Russian State Duma put forward a proposal to extend the term of military service and raise the conscription age for foreigners who have obtained Russian citizenship. Currently, the term of service in the Russian Armed Forces is one year, and the maximum conscription age is 30 years.