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Suspected Boko Haram militants have targeted two Shia mosques in northeast Nigeria with bomb attacks, killing at least six worshippers and injuring several others. The two mosques in the town of Potiskum in Nigeria’s Yobe State were targeted by bombers late Tuesday. Eyewitnesses blamed the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorists for ...

Newly-released video footage shows ISIL Takfiri terrorists executing Iraqi government forces in the country’s north. The new video released by the terrorist group shows the gruesome massacre of Iraqi army cadets, which was carried out in the northern province of Salahuddin in June. The footage shows the Takfiri terrorists forcing ...

  Radical militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant have retreated from Mosul, in northern Iraq, due to the heavy defeat they faced by the Iraqi army airforce.   Source: Al Alam 

Translation of Sayd Muqtada Al-Sadr’s latest statement following the events of Mosul In the name of Allah After all these policies that have come from here and there, and after the (Sunnis) of Iraq have fallen between the jaws of terrorism and extremism from one side, and irresponsible militias from ...

Influential Iraqi Shia cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, has called for the formation of a special force to defend religious sites in Iraq. Sadr, who once ran the powerful Mahdi Army, said in a statement on Wednesday that he was ready to help create “peace units to defend the holy sites of ...

The Syrian army has taken full control of the southwestern town of Yabroud, the last major stronghold of foreign-backed militants near the Lebanese border.  Syrian forces carried out mop-up operations pushing back the militants from the strategic town in the mountainous region of Qalamoun. In their latest drive to clear ...

Syrian army troops were at the gates of the rebel bastion of Yabrud near the Lebanese border Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. State television confirmed the news, reporting: “Syrian army units have advanced in the Yabrud area and now control its eastern approaches and northeastern boundary.” The ...