When Iranian schoolteacher Ali Mohammadian noticed that one of his students was being bullied after going bald as a result of a mysterious illness, he decided to show solidarity and shave his own hair. In no time, his entire class shaved their heads and the bullying stopped. Now, Mohammadian, who …

Amid widespread crackdown on Shias, the Bahraini regime is to disband one of their clerical bodies, the Islamic Scholars Council. Bahrain Justice Minister Sheik Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa filed a lawsuit against the Shia body calling for the dissolution of the council and the confiscation of its assets. It …

Notorious takfiri terrorists Sipah-e-Sahaba killed a Shia youth who was a custodian of a Shia Mosque in Karachi on Thursday. Sources reported that Akbar Hussain son of Asghar Hussain was ambushed in Bilal Colony of North Karachi.   He was a custodian of an Shia Mosque in another locality of …

Iraqi forces have wrested back control of key areas west of Baghdad that have been out of government hands for weeks amid a deadly standoff between militants and security forces. The battles in Anbar province, a mostly-Sunni desert region that shares a border with Syria, and a protracted surge in …

A Bahraini court shuttered on Wednesday a Shia Muslim clerics’ council, after authorities accused it of politicization and illegal operations, in a revengeful step ahead of the third anniversary of the Bahraini revolution on February 14. The court ordered the closure of the Olamaa Islamic Council and the liquidation of …

A report forecasting Israel’s strategic future looks positively at Sunni-Shia conflict in the Middle East though it fears instability along Israeli borders. Israeli Major General Amos Yadlin concludes the “Strategic Survey for Israel 2013-2014” by stating: “In 2013, Israel’s national security balance sheet was largely positive. In contrast, in the …

A Spanish member of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group fighting in Syria has fled the Arab country after refusing to do suicide mission. According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, the 28-year-old Spanish national, identified as Abdelwahid Sadik Mohamed, was arrested at Malaga–Costa del Sol Airport on January 5 when he …

BANGKOK- Thai police have rescued hundreds of Rohingya Muslims from a remote camp in a raid prompted by a investigation into human trafficking, police officials said on Monday. Police detained 531 men, women and children in Sunday’s raid at a camp near the town of Sadao in the southern province …

The Syrian army on Monday killed a number of terrorists in several provinces and sustained its advance in Aleppo, maintaining its control over the north of Aleppo airport area, according to SANA. A military source told SANA that the army eliminated armed terrorist groups in the neighborhoods of al-Rashideen, Karm al-Maysar …

Three al-Qaeda-affiliated militant groups have declared war on Lebanon. In a single day, the trio delivered the opening salvo of their Lebanese campaign, issuing threats in what appeared to be coordinated statements. Three prominent terrorist groups, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, and the Islamic State of Iraq …