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US President Barack Obama has requested $500 million from Congress to train and arm militants fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “While we continue to believe that there is no military solution to this crisis and that the United States should not put American troops into combat in …

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday rejected recent media reports that Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani is in Iraq to help the country in its war on terrorists, stressing that no Iranian military official is in the country. “No military …

Israel launched airstrikes against Syria yet again (22 June 2014), hitting at least nine military targets and killing several Syrian soldiers. These strikes were supposedly in response to a cross border rocket attack that left an Israeli teenager dead at the Golan Heights border. The reality of the matter however, …

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has expressed Iran’s strong opposition to US interference in Iraq’s internal affairs. Addressing a meeting with Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani and judicial officials in Tehran on Sunday, the Leader added that arrogant Western powers led by the US …

The Iraqi army forces have killed one of the top commanders of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Takfiris in Tikrit as they continue to push back the terrorists. Saudi national Abu Khabib al-Jazaeeri, was killed on Thursday during the clashes in Baiji, north of Tikrit. The …

Ayatollah Hussaini Bushehri, leading the Friday prayers in the holy city of Qum, at the shrine of Lady Fatima al-Ma’suma (s), spoke about the situation in Iraq, the role of America, the virtues of the month of Ramadhan and the responsibility of the scholars in the blessed month. His eminence …

Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi, in his final lesson of ethics for the year, spoke about the life we live in and its relation to the hereafter. His eminence stated: “When the question is raised of how it is possible to lengthen one’s life, God answers by stating the lengthening of life …

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran would do whatever it takes to protect revered Shia Muslim holy sites in Iraq against ISIL terrorists fighting the Baghdad government. “Dear Karbala, Dear Najaf, Dear Kadhimiyah and Dear Samarra, we warn the great powers and their lackeys and the terrorists, the great Iranian people …

‪Hezbollah‬ Secretary General Sayyid Hassan ‪‎Nasrallah‬ said that his party was willing to defend Shiite shrines in Iraq, after the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham overrun large areas of the country. “We will do whatever we are asked to do, and will go wherever we have to be…” a source close to …

Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani, addressing a  gathering in Tabriz, spoke about the academic service of the Islamic world to all of mankind. He stated: “A look at Islamic history shows that the greatest blessings bestowed upon humanity were gained from the religion of Islam and the school of thought of the Ahl al-Bayt …