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[Picture: President of Majlis-e-Ulama Shia Maulana Sayyid Ali Raza Rizvi (Left) and General Secretary of Majlis Wahdatul Muslimeen Pakistan Maulana Raja Nasir Abbas (Right)] Majlis Ulama-E-Shia (Europe) – A Religious Organisation of Shia Scholars in Europe which represents the Shia Muslims originating from the Subcontinent wrote a letter to the ...

The office of the Religious Authority Grand Ayatollah, Ali al-Sistani condemned arresting the foreign  students of the religious institutions in Najaf. A statement by Sistani’s office received by IraqiNews.com cited “The security forcesarrested some of the Pakistani students in Najaf under the justification of violating the terms of the residential permits.” “The Religious Authority calls for stopping the ...

The president of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, said Iraq had been led in an authoritarian direction by Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and threatened to end the oil-rich autonomous region’s participation in the federal government. Iraq held elections on April 30. The results have yet to be announced but Kurdish support ...

It would be an understatement to say that Iran does not have an interest in the Iraqi parliamentary elections held April 30, and far too simplistic to conclude that Tehran is backing the current prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, for a third term. The Iran-Iraq relationship is a complex mosaic of ...

Syria’s sectarian war came to the capital of neighbouring Iraq as al-Qaeda bombed a rally for a Shia militant group that has sent fighters to defend the regime in Damascus. A team of suicide bombers killed at least 33 people and left many more injured after detonating two huge blasts ...

The senior Iraqi Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani, denied political leanings towards any specific candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections in the Arab country, spokesman for the Sadr bloc has said. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Sunday, Sheikh Salah al-Ubaidi, the spokesperson for al-Sadr political movement, ...

Dr. Hassen Al-Sader, Director of Al-Shaheed Al-Sadr Office in London Everywhere around the Muslim nation, especially in the Middle East, and probably starting from Iraq: sectarianism has been eating its way through the nation. Shedding blood, increasing tension, fragmenting society and even breaking the family unit, sectarianism has done a big ...

Baghdad — A presidential guard shot dead a senior Iraqi journalist during an argument in Baghdad Saturday and then fled, briefly sparking a standoff in which Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki demanded he be handed over. It was not immediately clear what sparked the altercation outside a heavily guarded presidential complex ...

Senior British army officers have blocked an investigation into the killing and mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners during the Iraq occupation, a public inquiry has found. Al-Sweady Inquiry into the incidents heard on Monday that senior British army officers have been making efforts to block a military police investigation into the ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of openly funding the insurgents his troops are battling in western Anbar province, in his strongest such statement since fighting started there early this year. Security forces have been fighting insurgents from the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq ...