A woman suicide bomber dressed in a black abaya blew herself up in a crowd of women and children Shiite pilgrims south of the Iraqi capital on Friday, killing at least 35 worshippers, officials said. Interior Ministry spokesman Abdel-Karim Khalaf said 35 people were killed and 68 wounded, almost all women and children, in the attack in Iskandiriyah as pilgrims flocked on foot to the holy city of Kerbala for a major religious ceremony. It was ...
A Turkish ISIL militant, recently captured by the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, has confirmed the close connections between Ankara and the Takfiri terrorist group. Huseyin Mustafa Peri, a Turkish national who was arrested by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria earlier in June, stated that Ankara and the ISIL have close economic ties. “A certain trade must be going on… There could be some kind of a fuel or oil ...
hlul Bayt News Agency - QUETTA, Pakistan - Two Takfiri assailants on a motorcycle Wednesday shot dead three Shiite welders at a shop in Quetta, in what police said as an act of targeted killing of Shia settlers.“Unknown gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead three welders at a shop and fled,” senior police official Abdul Razzaq Cheema told AFP.He said it appeared to be an “ targeted killing of Shia settlers” as the victims were ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - ABNA - Makkah Islamic Economic Forum (MIEF 2010) will be held under the theme "Unifying Vision and Objectives" from December 12th to 16th.
The forum is organized by Umm Al-Qura University in cooperation with Dunia Intermedia Group and will be held at the Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah.
It seeks the convergence of visions and facilitating the achievement of objectives for the 57 Islamic countries that are members of ...
The rapid spread of the disease through 19 of Yemen's 23 governorates highlighted a humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen after two years of aggression that has disabled most health care facilities, according to the U.N. humanitarian office. "To date, 101,820 suspected cholera cases and 789 deaths have been reported in 19 governorates," WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said. The WHO has warned that the number of cases could hit 300,000, but the daily ...
Two Chinese diplomats have been killed and another injured in a shooting attack at a restaurant in Cebu, the second largest city of the Philippines. According to police, the deadly attack was carried out at about 1:30 p.m. local time (0530 GMT) Wednesday at a popular restaurant in the trading capital of central Philippines. The restaurant workers said nine people were in a private room to celebrate the birthday of China's consul ...
Authorities in Morocco have arrested a suspect implicated in the ISIS attack in Paris on 13 November that left 130 dead. Officials have confirmed the arrest of the suspect in a statement. The Moroccan Ministry of Interior said the individual was arrested in Mohammedia on 15 January and he was believed to have travelled to Syria with one of the Paris attackers. The ministry did not give the suspect's full name but said his initials were J.A. ...
-- The closing ceremony of an instructional course on interpretation of Quranic verses on Hajj was held yesterday, November 16, with the presence of “Majid bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktum” head of the Association of Culture and Art in Dubai.
According to WAM news agency, the course was held by the Office of Islamic Affairs and Charity of Dubai from November 4 to 15.
Mohammad Soheil Al-Muhairi, director of Guidance Section of the office ...
Shabestan new agency’s Sarbeesha wing reported that on 21st November, Ghulam Raza Hussain Por the commissioner of Sarbeesha city said in a meeting with the committee of holy places of this city that a society changes in the month of Muharam because Imam Hussain (A.S) has clarified the duty of the pious, in the way of the protection of religion, and steadfastness, and the achievement of freedom. Hujjat ul Islam wal Muslaimeen Muhammadi the ...
Iran has condemned Israel's deadly attack on a flotilla carrying thousands of tons of supplies for Gaza, calling the regime in Tel Aviv a threat to global peace and security.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected the notion on Monday that the Israeli raid on the Freedom Flotilla was indicative of Tel Aviv's military muscle, explaining further that it was a mere symbol of its weakness.
President Ahmadinejad said Israel was "fabricated ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - A suicide bomber from Syria's al-Qaeda offshoot - the Nusra Front - has blown himself up at an army outpost in a contested neighbourhood of northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 25 soldiers and allied militia, a monitoring group says.Monday's blast in Aleppo, also injured scores, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday.
The Observatory said that the explosion from the blast was heard across ...
Another terrorist was killed by a rival terrorist group.
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - The executed person was "Anis Abdullah Bashir" from terrorist group of "Jaish al-Islam" and was responsible for the weapons caches.
This prominent Syrian terrorist was captured by ISIS during regional conflicts in eastern Qalamoun.
By doing this ISIS militants want to deflect the attention from their defeat in Tal Abyad (Syria).
Tal Abyad was being used by ISIS as ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of lying in his rejection of Tehran's overtures to the West as a cosmetic "charm offensive".
Iran’s Zarif Slams ’Lies’ of Netanyahu
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of lying in his rejection of Tehran's overtures to the West as a cosmetic ...
An initial approval by the world football’s lawmakers to lift a ban on the wearing of the Muslim headscarf (hijab) on pitch is drawing praise from the United Nations, the World Football Insider reported."I don't feel well when we forbid women who wear this headscarf because of their culture, when they play football," UN special adviser on sport Wilfried Lemke told the World Olympics Sport Convention on Tuesday, April 17."This is stupid.”The ...
Protesters poured into the streets in several towns and villages around Manama on Thursday, urging the Al Khalifa regime to step down.
The demonstrators called for the immediate release of prisoners and demanded a full withdrawal of all Saudi forces who invaded the Persian Gulf island on March 14 to assist the Bahraini government crush anti-regime protests.
Activists also called for a massive turnout of protesters across the country on ...
The Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria organises a five-day( 1st to 4th of June 2010) programme to mark the annual Imam week at Congo Conference Hall of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. The programme comprises of lecture, presentations, film show and book fair.
On Tuesday the 1st of June being the opening day Sheikh Muhammad Turi delivered lecture on Imam Khomeini(QS) views on Leadership generally known as Wilayatul ...
Two British activists have praised a message recently sent by Supreme Leader of Iran to the European and American youth urging them to develop a better understanding of Islam following recent developments in France and other places in the world.
In the message issued on January 21, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei urged the European and American youngsters not to miss the opportunity to "gain proper, correct and unbiased understanding of Islam," ...
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has strongly condemned Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks at the start of his course to clerics at the post-jurisprudence level in Tehran on Sunday, stressing the need for the entire world to act responsibly in the face of this and other crimes committed by the Saudi regime in Yemen and ...
Syrian armed forces, backed by Russian air support, have reportedly launched a large-scale military offensive against Takfiri terrorists in the southern countryside of Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city. On Friday, Syria’s official news agency SANA quoted a military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, as saying that government troops and popular defense groups opened a new front against the militants in ...
