Russia and Turkey have strongly condemned the reported killing of Ismail Haniya ... Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani stated that Haniya's death would only serve to "strengthen the deep and ...

Ismail Haniya, the head of the Hamas Politburo, was killed yesterday in Tehran. This was reported by the Palestinian group itself, as well as by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Hamas has handed over a Russian hostage to representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Taher al-Nunu, a spokesman for senior Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh, told TASS.