Militants from al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) have beheaded two Syrian citizens with sword in their Raqqa base, as they continue executing and punishing people based on their own ruling system. Syrians in Raqqa have been suffering from extremist crimes and strict rules imposed by ISIL militants …

Hackers broke into Israeli defence ministry computers via an email attachment tainted with malicious software, according to an Israeli cyber-security company. Aviv Raff, chief technology officer at Seculert, said the hackers temporarily took over 15 computers this month, one of them belonging toIsrael‘s civil administration, which monitors Palestinians in Israeli-occupied …

The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has exceeded 890,000, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced. The world body said on Sunday that there are 247,425 registered refugees in northern Lebanon, while 7,032 are still awaiting registration. Beirut and Mount Lebanon also host 201,818 registered Syrian …

Iran and P5+1 are to resume talks next month in New York on reaching a long-term nuclear deal, a Foreign Ministry official told Iran’s official IRNA news agency on Monday. “Negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group on a definitive agreement will take place in New York at the end …

Mehr News recently ran a news item featuring former head of the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guard, Mohsen Rafiqdoost. In the report, the former head of the Revolution Guard mentions a story from the 8 year imposed war in which they spoke to Imam Khomeini about furthering the Shah’s nuclear weapons …

On Sunday afternoon, Ayatollah Noori Hamadani, a senior Shia scholar in the Hawza of Qum met with a group of Hawza students from the province of West Azerbaijan. In the meeting Ayatollah Hamadani stressed on a number of issues concerning self building and success in the Hawza. He said:  If one has …

The Government of Balochistan has suspended buses carrying pilgrims from travelling through the province to neighbouring Iran due to security concerns after a suicide attack killed 28 pilgrims in Mastung this week. A 700 km highway connecting Quetta and Iran, home to many Shia pilgrimage sites, has seen dozens of suicide …

A senior British police official has warned that anyone travelling to Syria from the UK will be detained after returning home. There is a “huge concern” about those who travel to Syria to fight alongside the militants against the Syrian government, Manchester’s police chief Peter Fahy said on Saturday. Referring …

Twenty-eight people have been killed in a fresh bout of violence in Iraq, with the latest mortalities taking the death toll for January to over 800. At least eight people, including a young child, were killed in a shelling that began late on Friday in Fallujah’s southern neighborhood of Nazal …

A young Bahraini protester has been martyred as a result of injuries sustained during a protest in the northern village of Markh. Bahrain’s main opposition group, al-Wefaq, said in a message posted on Twitter on Sunday that Fadhil Abbas Muslim, a 19 year old, “was martyred today due to severe …