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Police chiefs have been forced to confirm for the first time the identities of two undercover police officers who fathered children with campaigners from groups they had been sent to infiltrate. One of them is Bob Lambert, the former head of the Muslim Contact Unit, who established close working relationships ...

Among the worst of criminals and transgressors are murderers – those who take away the life of innocent human beings. Among this category of murderers, the worst of them are those who kill ruthlessly and shed the blood of a huge fraction of people in a cold-blooded and brutal manner.  ...

Hujjat al-Islam Saeedi, a highly respected teach of the Islamic seminary, in a sitting with Lebanese officials in the Holy Shrine of Lady Ma’sumah (s), spoke about the threats facing the Islamic world currently and the relationship between the Islamic Republic and the Islamic resistance in Lebanon. The respected scholar ...

The name of Haider al-Abadi was not widely circulated in Iraqi media; the man liked to keep to himself and to stay out of the spotlight. People who know him, however, describe him as a “modest” and “practical” man, not a narcissist. After long weeks of debates, dialogues, political battles ...

Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian youth in the West Bank on Monday during a raid on his house near the city of Nablus, local medical officials said. Local witnesses said Zakaria al-Aqra, 23, was “wanted” by Israel and had been shot dead. Six other people were wounded in the ...

Iraq’s president on Monday named Haider al-Abadi as the country’s new prime minister, an appointment that came amid speculation that the embattled incumbent, Nouri al-Maliki, would cling to power even after his country had dissolved into chaos and the United States made it clear that it would not support him as ...

Extremists from the Islamic State have killed at least 500 people, including women and children, Iraqi officials said. Some of the victims were buried alive. The killings reported by Iraqi Human Rights Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to Reuters add to a long list of atrocities reportedly committed by the radical ...

The demonstration came amid renewed violence between Israel and Palestinian militants after a three-day ceasefire ended on Friday. An emergency appeal in the UK for people affected by the conflict in Gaza has raised £4.5m in less than 24 hours, the Disasters Emergency Committee said. Meanwhile, David Cameron and Barack ...

A new law in Saudi Arabia prohibits men from marrying Bengali, Pakistani, Chadian and Burmese women, while it sets new restrictive rules on marrying Moroccan women. According to the Saudi daily Makkah newspaper, any Saudi man who wishes to marry a Moroccan woman has to prove that her profile is free of any crimes ...