World
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Region
2/3/2025 1:17:19 PM
Hezbollah announced the funeral of its longtime leader will take place on 23 February, five months after he was assassinated in a series of targetted Israeli airstrikes in a southern Beirut suburb.
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World
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International
1/9/2025 10:54:52 AM
Jimmy Carter was to be honoured Thursday with a state funeral at Washington's National Cathedral, amid a groundswell of tributes honouring the 39th US president and the last from the so-called Greatest Generation.
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World
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International
12/12/2024 6:15:31 PM
Thousands of people attended the funeral on Thursday of a Taliban minister killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, the day before that was claimed by the Islamic State group.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/21/2024 9:45:33 PM
Funerals were held Thursday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin after Israeli forces killed three Palestinians during a raid in the area.
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World
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Region
10/4/2024 2:31:24 PM
A source close to Hezbollah said Friday that the Lebanese group's slain chief Hassan Nasrallah has been temporarily buried in a secret location for fear Israel would target a large funeral.
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World
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Region
9/14/2024 6:29:00 PM
Mourners gathered in southwest Turkey on Saturday for the funeral of a US-Turkish activist, who was shot dead by Israeli forces while protesting illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/13/2024 1:40:31 PM
The body of a US-Turkish activist, shot dead by Israeli occupation forces while protesting against illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, arrived in Turkey on Friday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/1/2024 9:53:43 AM
Iran held funeral processions on Thursday for Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh after he was killed in a strike in Tehran blamed on Israel.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/31/2024 6:26:03 PM
The burial of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh is to be held in Doha on Friday a day after a public funeral ceremony in Tehran, the Palestinian group said Wednesday.
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World
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Region
7/29/2024 6:16:15 PM
Israeli officials faced fierce protests from locals as they attended the funerals of young victims killed by a rocket strike at the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams.
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World
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Region
7/29/2024 1:50:45 PM
Hundreds gathered Monday in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams for the funeral of the last of 12 youths killed by rocket fire from Lebanon.
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World
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Region
7/28/2024 7:32:52 PM
Thousands of Druze men and women, many dressed in black, arrived for the funeral Sunday of several of the 12 youths killed in a rocket attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights the day before.
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World
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Africa
6/30/2024 10:09:26 AM
At least 18 people were killed and 19 seriously wounded in suicide attacks targeting a wedding, a hospital, and a funeral in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, authorities said.
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World
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Africa
6/18/2024 12:45:36 PM
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima was laid to rest Monday in his village south of the capital, following a funeral where President Lazarus Chakwera called for an independent probe into his death in a plane crash.
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World
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Region
6/3/2024 6:01:21 PM
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis on Monday held a public funeral in the capital Sanaa for more than a dozen fighters they say were killed in US and British strikes last week.
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World
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Region
5/23/2024 3:00:46 PM
Leaders of the Iran-led "Axis of Resistance" including Hamas's Ismail Haniyeh, discussed the Israeli war on Gaza during a meeting in Tehran on the sidelines of President Ebrahim Raisi's funeral, state media reported Thursday.
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World
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Region
5/23/2024 10:33:00 AM
Thousands marched in Iran on Thursday on the final day of funeral rites for president Ebrahim Raisi, who will be laid to rest in his hometown days after dying in a helicopter crash.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
5/23/2024 9:25:00 AM
Head of the Press Syndicate says he disagrees with a decision to ban funeral photos.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/22/2024 12:27:50 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry flew on Wednesday to Tehran to attend the funeral of Iran President Ebrahim Raisi, read a foreign ministry statement.
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World
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Region
5/22/2024 9:55:24 AM
Huge crowds of Iranians thronged the streets of the capital Tehran on Wednesday for the funeral procession of President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage, who died in a helicopter crash.
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