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A senior Iranian diplomat has rejected reports about negotiations between Iran and the US over the ongoing crisis in Iraq. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has had no negotiations with the Americans over mutual cooperation in Iraq,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on ...

Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, speaking to the charge d’affaires of Iran in London, spoke about the importance of maintaining relations with other non-Muslim people and countries.   He stated: “We separate non-Muslims into a few categories and we have rulings in accordance with each of these groups. The first group we call ...

Israeli occupation forces on Monday killed a Palestinian youth and arrested more than 40 overnight, including the parliament speaker, in a massive crackdown on Hamas whom Israel accuses of kidnapping three settlers. With the manhunt for the missing youths in its fourth day, Israeli forces were concentrating their focus on ...

The mayor of Iraq’s city of Salahuddin has confirmed that the army retook large parts of the city after it fell to rebels from the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL). Mayor Ahmed Abdullah said in a statement that the army had retaken the districts of Ad-Duluiya, ...

Shocking images have emerged of the mass execution of Iraqi soldiers detained by militants from the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The photographs, released on one of ISIL’s own Twitter feeds, show dozens of Shiite soldiers being driven in trucks to a rural area where they ...

Powerful Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on his supporters to hold a general military parade across the country next Saturday to enhance unity among Iraqis. “Our beloved country is surrounded by peril and enemies have invaded it. To boost unity and readiness, I call on all of you to ...

Heavily armed, well funded, and organized as a professional, standing army, the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept southward into Iraq from Turkey and northeastern Syria, taking the cities of Mosul and Tikrit, and now threaten the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad itself. The United ...

Militants have seized the Iraqi city of Tikrit as a jihadi offensive sweeps closer to Baghdad, prompting the UN Security Council to convene crisis talks Thursday while the US mulls air strikes on the rebels. The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) seized the second city of Mosul on ...

Baghdad is in a state of panic. The streets are empty. Gunmen are 20 kilometers (12.42 miles) away from the capital. Popular forces armed by the state are deployed around the city to protect its residents from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). All eyes are on Diyala, ...

Ayatollah Jafar Subhani, in the ‘Nation of Islam’ conference, spoke about the importance of unity and how the lack of it has led to the problems we see today. His eminence stated: “There are a lot of similarities that exists between Muslims, however, unfortunately what can be seen today is ...