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Muslim World must unite behind UN vote against Israel settle...
( Iran )
Tehran:An Iranian official has urged all Muslim countries to stand united behind a recently-approved United Nations Security Council resolution that censures Israel for its settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories. “Muslim countries’ united support for the Security Council resolution against the Zionist regime’s settlements is the least that must be done,” said Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian parliament speaker’s special advisor on international affairs,...
To obey Jesus Christ, one needs to support truth, abhor powe...
( Iran )
Tehran:Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, issued a message on January 02, 1995 for the auspicious birth anniversary of Jesus Christ (pbuh) and the commencement of the New Year on the Gregorian calendar. The full text of the message is as follows: In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful I congratulate all Christians and Muslims—particularly our Christian compatriots—on the birth anniversary of His Majesty Jesus Christ, the great prophet, as well as the...
Takfiri terrorism does not belong to Islam:Sayyed Hassan Nas...
( Lebanon )
Beirut:The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says Takfiri militants perpetrating heinous crimes across the Middle East and North Africa have no connection to Islam and the religion’s most revered figure Prophet Muhmamd (PBUH). Addressing his supporters via a video link from the Lebanese capital city of Beirut, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah stated that efforts to tarnish the image of Islam have entered a new phase, stressing that all Muslims bear the responsibility of...
Iran, Russia, Turkey start bid to solve Syria crisis diploma...
( Russia )
Moscow:Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran, Russia and Turkey have started the process of finding a political solution to the Syria crisis. There is no military solution to the Syria conflict and the country’s crisis can only be solved through political approaches, Zarif said in Moscow on Tuesday. The Iranian foreign minister was speaking at a meeting with his Russian and Turkish counterparts Sergei Lavrov and Mevlut Cavusoglu, respectively, and members of the three countries’...
Russian ambassador to Turkey killed after gun attack in Anka...
( Russia )
Moscow:Russia’s ambassador to Ankara, Andrey Karlov, who was shot in the Turkish capital, December 19, 2016. The Russian ambassador to Ankara has reportedly died of being seriously wounded following a gun attack in the Turkish capital. Andrey Karlov was attacked while visiting an art exhibition opening in the Turkish capital on Monday, television reports said. RIA Novosti cited sources as saying that he had died of his injuries. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova,...
Syrian Goverment with the support of Nation defeated terrori...
( Damascus )
Damascus:“Iran and Russia came to Syria to defend the country while 180 other countries came to Syria to destroy it,” Grand Mufti of Syrian Badreddin Hassoun said in an address to Irish lawmakers, the Arabic-language Al Mayadeen TV reported on Thursday. He further called on European governments to ignore media outlets that are trying to tarnish the image of the Syrian government, saying that if they want peace and intend to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, they should go to Syria and...
United Nation:Militants using civilians as human shield in A...
( Syria )
Damascus:The UN’s Commission of Inquiry for Syria (COI) says it has received reports that militants in Syria’s Aleppo are preventing civilians from leaving the city and are using them as human shields. The COI released a statement on Wednesday, saying it had received “allegations of opposition groups… preventing civilians from leaving as well as opposition fighters embedding themselves within the civilian population, thus heightening the risk to civilians of being killed or injured.”...
US supporting terrorists by labeling them as moderates in Ar...
( Syria )
Damascus:Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused the US of sponsoring terrorist groups operating in the Arab country by labeling them as moderate opposition. In an interview with the Russian TV channels, Russia 24 and NTV, broadcast on Wednesday, President Assad said the US tried to promote the notion of the so-called moderate opposition in Syria. “They haven’t been able to market this lie because the facts on the ground proved the opposite, that all those they support are extremists,”...
PIA plane crash:All 47 on board killed...
( Pakistan )
Islamabad:All 47 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight that crashed near Abbottabad were killed, the airline said. A pilot made a mayday call, saying he had lost control of one of the two engines, according to Azam Saigol, PIA’s chairman. “We were confident that the plane could land with one working engine,” Saigol said. “This is a tragedy. We are not absolving ourselves of any connection to this incident.” According to Saigol, it’s...
Israel’s 1st envoy to Turkey in 6 years officially takes o...
( Turkey )
Ankara:Israel’s first ambassador to Turkey since a severing of ties over a Tel Aviv attack on a Palestine-bound aid ship has commenced work. On Monday, Eitan Naeh officially presented his credentials to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential palace in Ankara. Naeh served as the deputy ambassador in London before his appointment to Ankara. According to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, Ankara’s new ambassador to Israel, Kemal Okem, will begin work later in the week. Turkey expelled...