Tag Archives: Syria

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned against enemy plots to provoke sectarian conflicts among Shia and Sunni Muslims in the region to undermine the wave of Islamic Awakening. “Today, the enemy is investing in civil wars in the region and pins hope on a Shia-Sunni ...

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 ...

Al Arabiya News is reporting that Saudi preacher Mohammad al-Arifi has been banned from entering the United Kingdom. “We can confirm Mohammad al-Arifi has been excluded from the United Kingdom,” a Home Office spokesperson said in a statement to Al Arabiya News. “The UK Government makes no apologies for refusing ...

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, ...

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 ...

Thousands of Syrians and Shia pilgrims have celebrated the birthday anniversary of Imam Ali (AS) during a ceremony at the Sayyidah Zaynab shrine in the capital city of Damascus. According to Al-Alam correspondent, hundreds of Shia pilgrims form Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and other countries also took part in the ceremony. ...

To protect the innocent and to defeat the Assad dictatorship, Syrians should work with Israel to create a safe haven. I spent more than a decade in Syrian prisons and therefore know what kind of regime this is. It is one which believes that torture is a form of dialogue. ...

It is only a matter of time before jihadis in al-Qa’ida-type groups that have taken over much of eastern Syria and western Iraq have a violent impact on the world outside these two countries. The road is open wide to new attacks along the lines of 9/11 and 7/7, and ...

BEIRUT: The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced it had executed seven prisoners in its bastion in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, two of them by crucifixion. ISIL, which has been disavowed even by Al-Qaeda, said it held the seven responsible for a grenade attack on one of its fighters earlier this month in ...

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 ...