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A Saudi prominent cleric says Takfiri groups as well as certain regional and international intelligence bodies are using Saudi youths as “firewood” for their own conflicts and problems. During his praying sermon on Friday in Saudi Arabia’s eastern city of Qatif, Sheikh Hassan Saffar criticized extremist groups for their “radical ...

The recent announcement by Saudi Arabia concerning its fighters in Syria is no mere detail to gloss over. It is a decidedly serious indicator of the extent of pressure exerted by the United States, including the threat to cancel the expected visit by President Barack Obama to the kingdom. Yet ...

Col. Michael Aquino is a man of remarkable achievements. He was expelled from the Church of Satan for being too evil – and then, after being prosecuted and miraculously acquitted of horrific child abuse, was promoted to head all US military psychological operations programs. When the late founder of the ...

Senior Iranian Navy commanders announced on Saturday that the country has sent several fleets of warships to the US maritime borders. “The Iranian Army’s naval fleets have already started their voyage towards the Atlantic Ocean via the waters near South Africa,” Commander of Iran’s Northern Navy Fleet Admiral Afshin Rezayee ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an immediate action to stop the pogrom of Muslims in the Central African Republic, saying the killings have imperiled their future in the country. “We are in a moment where immediate action is needed to stop the killings,” Peter Bouckaert, emergencies coordinator at ...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement and the country’s security forces have arrested members of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group in southern Beirut. The militants belonging to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had infiltrated into the southern suburb of Dahiya under the guise of a business company. Reports ...

With an obvious greed towards destruction, vandalism and tampering with all the Syrian religious and cultural heritage, the terrorist groups targeted a great religious symbol in Damascus. Days after the Syrian army controlled the region around the holy shrine of Sayyeda Sakina [PBUH], the armed groups in rural Damascus , ...

Lebanon’s military tribunal has issued an arrest warrant for the commander of the al-Qaeda-linked group behind the November bomb attacks outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut. The warrant was issued for Jamal Daftar-Dar, the commander of Abdullah Azzam Brigades. On November 19, two bomb attacks outside the Iranian embassy in ...

Nearly three years have passed since violence erupted in Syria and peaceful anti-regime demonstrations were touched off in Bahrain. However, the approach adopted by the West and even countries in the region is deeply paradoxical to the point that it poses a challenge to most international norms and conventions. A ...

Pressure mounts on Myanmar for an investigation amid reports that dozens of the persecuted minority were killed. Sittwe, Myanmar – In the dusty Burmese village of Thet Kay Pyin, Rosia sits tending to her elderly, disabled mother on the floor of a dark bamboo hut. Eighty-year-old Feroza cannot feed herself, speak, ...