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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, …

Soldiers lynched an innocent bystander in the Central African Republic yesterday, beating the man to death before scores of witnesses only moments after the new president had voiced “pride” in their professionalism. The brazen murder, carried out with the utmost brutality, was another sign of the nightmarish disintegration of this …

Houthi fighters have overrun strongholds of a rival pro-Salafi tribal group in fighting that has killed at least 40 people in northern Yemen in the last two days, tribal sources said on Sunday. The fighting compounds the challenges faced by U.S.-allied Yemen, which is struggling to stabilise a country that …

A bomb attack has killed at least nine Shia Muslims and injured 30 others in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, security sources say. Local security officials said the blast took place on Tuesday evening near a mosque and a hotel in a Shia-dominated neighborhood of Peshawar – the capital of …

More than 2,300 militants were killed in infightings among rival militant groups in Syria in January, as tensions between various militant groups escalate, a monitoring group says. According to the report released by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 1700 militants were killed in infightings among the al-Qaeda-affiliated …

MOMBASA, Kenya – Gunfire erupted in and around a mosque in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Sunday following a raid by armed police who had received a tip-off that Muslim youths were being radicalised and trained for militant attacks. The raid sparked violent protests inside the Masjid Mussa …

Iraqi security sources reported that the Iraqi army killed 40 militants who belong to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in the city of Fallujah. The Special Iraqi Troops killed the militants and burnt their cars, according to the sources. The Iraqi army regained control on the area …