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“Airlines have been ordered by Baghdad to stop cargo flights into the Kurdistan Region”, Kurdish airport officials said, as Baghdad denied any such decision. The directors of Kurdistan’s two main airports, in the capital Erbil and the second-largest city Sulaimani, said there had been no official word from Baghdad, but …

The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says no country can afford to launch a military attack on the country. In a meeting with senior Iranian officials on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei said that Israel’s military threats against Iran are constantly repeated but the United States prevents Tel …

A Jerusalem court ordered Sunday that a Palestinian-American teenager, who was severely beaten in police custody, be released to house arrest for nine days pending an investigation into stone-throwing allegations. Tareq Abu Khudair, 15, who holds US citizenship and lives in Florida, is a cousin of Mohammed Abu Khudair, a …

The following comment was posted on an online chat forum for Muslim syesterday inviting responses: Some of the other members of the forum became suspicious by the strange comment and decided to check the new member’s ISP address:   More up-to-date checks of the ISP address by other members of the forum …

The International Union of Muslim Scholars, led by influential Sunni cleric Dr Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, released a statement on Friday concerning the recent declaration of a “caliphate” by the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIS). The union said that the caliphate declaration is “null and void” and “lacks any realistic …

Ronaldo said: “I do not exchange my shirt with Assassins” This was a phrase used by the Portuguese star Cristiano at a meeting after a friendly playoff between Israel and Portugal before the World Cup. After the match, an Israeli player removing his shirt offered it to Ronaldo, who refused because he …

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 …