Gruesome photographs appearing to show a British serviceman in a celebratory pose next to a dead Afghan have prompted an investigation by the Ministry of Defence. In one photograph, a British soldier with a cigarette in his mouth is kneeling by the body of a dead Taliban fighter and giving …

In mid-April, after an eight-year, “Kafkaesque” ordeal implicating its vast architecture of official secrecy and bureaucratic intransigence, the US government finally, if grudgingly, informed Dr Rahinah Ibrahim that she was no longer on the No Fly List. Dr Ibrahim, a Malaysian architecture professor, had been placed on the list as a result …

To protect the innocent and to defeat the Assad dictatorship, Syrians should work with Israel to create a safe haven. I spent more than a decade in Syrian prisons and therefore know what kind of regime this is. It is one which believes that torture is a form of dialogue. …

The emergence of terrorist group Boko Haram, after its deadly attacks and merciless kidnapping of nearly 300 Nigerian girls from a boarding school, has brought it to the fore of the headlines and along with it raised dozens of questions over the corrupt political system in Nigeria. It just so …

Abu Hamza al-Masri – who was once one of Britain’s most infamous “radical preachers” – secretly worked for MI5, his lawyers have told a court in the US. Abu Hamza’s lawyers claimed the Egyptian-born preacher, who was giving evidence for the first time in his trial in New York, had …

Hujjat al-Islam Muhammad Shahabi, the head of Imam Muhammad Baqir (a), Bahrain, spoke about the relentless attack of the Bahraini regime upon the Shia. He stated: “An attack on religious freedom and the lack of punishment for these criminals continues and from the other side the regime is using the …

Israel might battle Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said yesterday. Gantz visited training camps in the north of the occupied West Bank. He said the deadline for peace talks came to an end on April 29 and the Israeli …

The  Takfiri group, Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) threatened to assassinate the Iraq-based Muslim religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani. In a statement on Tuesday, the terrorist group said: “At present, the Shiite religious leader in Iraq is a person named Ali Sistani who is a remnant …

Arab leaders in Occupied Palestine have reacted with fury to plans by Benjamin Netanyahu, to spearhead legislation defining Israel as “the nation state of the Jewish people”. Arab Israelis say the law will pave the way for discrimination against them to be entrenched in law. Liberal Israeli Jews are also …

There are only two things the Saudis know: spreading sectarianism and using the oil wealth to buy loyalty of people, especially politicians in different Muslim countries. Emile Lahoud, the former Lebanese President made a candid revelation in an interview with Iran’s Press TV on May 3 saying that he was …