Photographs obtained by The Independent reveal how workers with drills and mechanical diggers have started demolishing some Ottoman and Abbasid sections on the eastern side of the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. The building, which is also known as the Grand Mosque, is the holiest site in Islam because it contains the Kaaba …

With the arrest of two international human rights activists at Salem Military Court, in Jenin district, on Wednesday 29th January 2014, the total number of arrests of activists in the past month has risen to five, and the number of deportations to four. Arrested activists have reported verbal and physical abuse …

[youtube youtubeurl=”2iCzeO1OksA” ][/youtube] February 1st 1979 marks the day that Imam Khomeini returned triumphant to Iran after 14 years of exile and thereafter shifting the course of history forever. This video is a short excerpt from episode five of the Al-Manar documentary series ‘Ruhollah’, a series which takes a thorough and …

Tony Blair has thrown his weight behind Egypt’s government, despite it being blamed for a bloody crackdown on dissidents. Journalists have been imprisoned by the military administration of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, which ousted elected president Mohammed Morsi in July. Although the Morsi government was heavy criticised and branded authoritarian, its …

In a meeting with the Defence Ministry officials  His Eminence Ayatollah Nouri Hamdani opened by saying that God Almighty has provided us with the ability and means to defend ourselves. Focusing on what Allah has told us through the Qur’an on how to defend ourselves Ayatullah Hamdani stated that the …

Top-secret documentation collected by Pakistani field officers gives detailed information on 330 US drone strikes that have occurred in Pakistan since 2006. The CIA-run program is estimated to have killed 2,371 people. From solitary individuals riding on horseback to mountain hideouts crammed with people, the CIA drone program has had …

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 …

An Islamic organisations in the UK has slammed a website that publishes cartoons featuring Prophet Mohamed and Jesus. The website, Jesus and Mo, features a weekly comic strip in which the two prophets debate and joke about the central tenets of Islam and Christianity. The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) …

Israeli forces have razed down an entire Palestinian village in the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank. According to reports, the demolition took place in the village of Khirbat Jamal early on Thursday. Over a dozen families living in the area have been displaced after Israeli bulldozers destroyed …

A major Canadian Muslim group is demanding an apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his chief spokesman for a comment it says linked the organization to a terrorist group. The National Council of Canadian Muslims has filed a notice of libel in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that …