Supreme Leader

Based on territorial gains in Syria and Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), the recent declaration of an Islamic State (Khilafah) has laid to waste President Obama’s claim that the U.S. (having withdrawn military forces from Iraq in 2011) left behind “a sovereign, stable and self-reliant ...

The bodies of three Israeli settlers who went missing on June 12th were found in a hastily dug shallow grave in Halhul, north of Hebron. Since the teens went missing from Gush Etzion, a Jewish-only colony in the West Bank, Israel has besieged the 4 million Palestinians who already live ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has now ‘officially’ become a global Islamic caliphate. It took 14 months for its leader, who is known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to set himself up as a ruler “by order of God.” He is not only the “commander of the faithful” ...

BAGHDAD — Whether a person is a Shia or a Sunni Muslim in Iraq can now be, quite literally, a matter of life and death. As the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, has seized vast territories in western and northern Iraq, there have been frequent accounts of fighters’ ...

Watching mainstream media get into a tizzy about the prospect of “groundbreaking military cooperation” between Iran and the US, is quite pathetic. Aside from US official statements, the basis of this misplaced enthusiasm is the much trumpeted Rouhani press conference where he declared that “If we see that the United ...

Latest reports out of Iraq confirm that the ‘Islamic State of Iraq and Sham’ have taken over Mosul. Situated in the north of Iraq, Mosul is Iraq’s 3rd largest city. Situated in Ninevah province, the city has long been a base of ISIS & has been a stronghold for supporters and ...

Imam Abdul Alim Musa, the charismatic and outspoken Imam and founder of Masjid al-Islam in Washington DC is facing harassment and death threats virtually on a daily basis. Not only has Masjid al-Islam properties in various cities been vandalized and broken into but his family members have also been shot ...

Toronto has emerged as an important locale where the plight of the Kashmiri people suffering decades of brutal Indian occupation has found a voice.In a ringing declaration, the International Solidarity Conference on Kashmir held in Toronto on May 24 called for an immediate end to the gross human rights violations ...

When the episode of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain’s popular TV show Parts Unknown filmed in occupied Palestine aired last September, I couldn’t bring myself to join in some of my friends’ effusive praise on Facebook and Twitter over its scenes of Palestinians preparing and enjoying traditional cuisine. And it wasn’t ...

Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi, a member of the High Council of the Cultural Revolution, in a gathering of scholars in Mashhad, spoke about the issue of sectarianism in the Islamic world today. This highly respected professor started by speaking about the importance of realizing what is actually meant by unity. He ...