Islamic research

The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed Caliph, has appeared in public leading the jummah prayers at Mosul’s Great Al-Nuri Mosque. Speaking from the mimbar (pulpit) al-Baghdadi urged Muslims from around the world to make hijra to the “Islamic state” which was announced on Sunday 29 June, first day of ...

On the 3rd of July 1988, 290 people were killed in a US missile cruiser’s attack on an Iranian passenger plane. Carrying 274 passengers and 16 crew members, the Airbus A-300 (IR655) had just taken off from the southern Iranian coastal city of Bandar Abbas and was climbing inside an internationally ...

Britain had plans to train and equip about 100,000 militants in Syria to help topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad, a report reveals. Britain’s state-run BBC reported on Thursday that the secret initiative was put forward in 2012 by then military chief General Sir David Richards, who proposed vetting ...

Iran’s breakthrough nuclear deal with six world powers has promoted the Islamic Republic to the top of the list of the most improved nations in the world, a US-based research institute says.  “The election of moderate Hassan Rouhani as president, [and] a historic deal with the West over its nuclear ...

Muslim women are more likely to fall victim to Islamophobic hate crimes than men, with many of the attacks “opportunistic” and provoked by hostility to traditional dress, a new study has found. Researchers said that traditional dress such as the niqab or abaya made some female victims “more visibly Muslim”, ...

One of Iraq’s most senior politicians has warned that the country could ask Iran to carry out air strikes against the jihadist group, Isis – if the United States continues to refuse to do so. Speaking exclusively to The Huffington Post UK, Dr Haider Al-Abadi, a member of the Iraqi ...

The head of the Samarra Special Operation Command says militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group are escaping en masse from Salaheddin province as Iraqi troops score more victories in their fight against ISIL terrorists. “Iraqi security forces have won great victories against ...

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group and their supporters should be tried in a war tribunal. “The terrorist grouplet of the ISIL and its supporters should be punished as war criminals,” Dehqan said, addressing a ...

Opposition fighters including members of Al-Nusra Front launched an attack on Saturday against Islamic State of Iraq and As-Sham (ISIS) militants to retake control of the city of Abu Kamal on Syria’s eastern border with Iraq. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic Brigades ...

WASHINGTON — The threat posed by a network of Sunni extremists sweeping through Iraq and Syria is changing the political calculus in the Middle East, Israeli President Shimon Peres said in an interview this weekend after receiving the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington. Israel, he said, is no longer the ...