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Recent findings have revealed that the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in Iraq is manufacturing weapons on an industrial scale, with products largely purchased in bulk from Turkey. The London-based Conflict Armaments Research reported on Wednesday that ISIS (ISIL, IS, DAESH) has maintained a “robust and reliable” supply chain between Turkey ...

In August 2016 and during Hezbollah celebration which marked the tenth anniversary of July victory, the Resistance leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah stressed the importance of defeating the terrorist groups in Syria’s Aleppo, maintaining that the victory in the northern city is game-changing. Scores of analysts wondered why Hezbollah selects Aleppo, ...

On June 13, the small daily Yeni Mesaj reported an arson attack on the Shia Allahu Akbar Mosque, in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district. The reportedly unknown perpetuators struck after midnight, setting fire to the mosque’s library. Turkey’s mainstream media failed to pick up on the incident until July 8, after another Shia house of worship, the Muhammediye Mosque, was attacked in the ...

Turkey has reportedly launched an espionage investigation after a secret state meeting over possible military intervention in neighboring Syria was leaked on YouTube. Turkish media reported on Saturday that police had briefly detained Onder Aytac, a columnist known to be close to the Hizmet movement of the US-based cleric, Fethullah ...

Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, at the end of his advanced studies (bahth kharij) class on Tuesday, spoke about the recent comments made by the premier of Turkey regarding the Shia. He stated: “Recently, the prime minister of Turkey has said that the Shia are liars and they practice religious dissimulation (taqiyya). ...

It was Turkey’s Shia (Jaafari) community’s turn to be offended by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as he criticized the Gulen faith movement, which he holds responsible for revealing the corruption files. Talking about Gulenists on a TV program, Erdogan said, “These people have three major characteristics. They practice taqiyya [religiously sanctioned dissimulation], they lie, they slander. As a result ...

The ninth meeting of the Islamic Inter-Parliamentary Union (IIPU) has opened in the Iranian capital, Tehran, with representatives from nearly 50 countries in attendance. The IIPU meeting kicked off in Tehran on Tuesday with a speech by Sudanese National Assembly Speaker Al-Fateh Ezzedin, whose country holds the rotating presidency of ...

Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, met Wednesday afternoon with the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Speaking at the meeting, His Eminence said that the spirit of brotherhood, amity and friendship between the two countries has been unique in recent centuries, stressing: “The great capacities of ...