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Floods in south China claim 22 lives...
( China )
Beijing:Severe floods have claimed the lives of at least 22 people and left 20 others missing over the past three days in southern China, media reports say. Heavy flooding accompanied by summer rainstorms have also displaced a total of 197,000 people and affected 3.7 million others since Saturday in seven southern provinces in the country, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday. Xinhua added that storms had pushed water levels in rivers to dangerous levels, leading to crop damage, the collapse...
ISIS Chief Al Baghdadi Killed in US Air Strike on Syria:Repo...
( Syria )
Damascus:The statement published by Amaq said ISIS’s so-called caliph Baghdadi had been killed on Sunday, according to the media reports. ROME (IANS/AKI) — The Daesh or the self-styled Islamic State (IS) terrorist group’s alleged leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in an air raid in Syria by the US-led coalition, reports said on Monday. Baghdadi died in an air strike on IS’s stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria, Iranian state media and pro-government Turkish daily Yenis Safak said,...
Syria calls for action against Turkey, Saudi, Qatar after Gr...
( Syria )
Damascus:Only a few hours after deadly blasts rocked the capital Damascus, Syria called for immediate action against Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, who it claims support and finance terrorism. The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent letters to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council concerning the recent terror attacks targeting Syrian civilians, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported on Saturday. Earlier in day, at least 20 people died and dozens of others...
Syrians cut off main Daesh road to Turkey...
( Syrian )
Damascus:An alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab forces has managed to cut off the Daesh terror group’s main supply route to Turkey after encircling the Syrian border town of Manbij. The Syrian Democrati Forces (SDF), a coalition of Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, and Turkmen fighters, backed by the People’s Protection Units (YPG), surrounded Manbij on Friday, said the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The SDF also blocked the road south of the town, which heads to Raqqah. The...
Special attention to presence of women in mosques is the mai...
( Iran )
Tehran:The president of the Center of Supervision on Mosques Affairs emphasised on paying special attention to role of women and preparing required facilities for them in mosques. Referring the annual slogan and strategy of Tehran’s mosques in current year, the president of the Center of Supervision on Mosques Affairs emphasised on the significant role of women in mosques. ” Some parts of mosques activities are focused on preparing the houses of God to welcome Ramadan holy month. Attention...
Iran offers Pakistan to join Chabahar Port deal...
( Pakistan )
Islamabad:A day after Pakistan said it was considering linking Gwadar with Chabahar harbour, Iran said the former could join the agreement.
On Monday, India, Iran and Afghanistan signed a three-way transit accord as New Delhi and Tehran inked an agreement worth $500 million to develop the Chabahar port.
“[The] Chabahar agreement is not limited to three countries. Doors are always open for Pakistan and other regional nations to join the deal,” said Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Mehdi Honardost.
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Turkey Arming Al Nusra terrorists in Syria Russia...
( Russia )
Moscow:Russia’s Defense Ministry says the Turkish government continues to supply al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorists fighting in Syria with weapons in a bid to undermine the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed Takfiri militants. “The flow of heavy-duty trucks with weapons and ammunition, which cross the Turkish-Syrian border every day, does not stop from Turkey,” Sergei Rudskoy, the head of Russia’s General Staff’s main operations command, said at a...
Blasts kill at least 120 in western Syria...
( Syria )
Damascus:Seven bomb explosions have rocked the coastal cities of Tartous and Jableh in western Syria, leaving at least 121 people dead, a London-based monitor says. In Jableh, the attacks took the lives of at least 73 people and left scores of others injured on Monday morning, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights said. At least 48 people were killed in Tartous and many others injured in almost simultaneous bombings. According to the report, one of the explosions occurred near a hospital...
Some regional governments betraying Muslims:Imam Khamanei in...
( Iran )
Tehran:Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a meeting on Wednesday with participants in the 33rd round of International Quran Competitions, referred to faith in God and ex-communication with diabolism as the main and real fundamental of authority and might. Stressing that the United States is the “Great Devil” and “Great Satan”, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said: “Today, the most important task [assigned] to scholars, intellectuals and elites is...
ISIS executes 25 people in Iraq’s Mosul using nitric acid...
( Iraq )
Baghdad:The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has tortured and executed 25 people by nitric acid in Iraq’s embattled northern city of Mosul in Nineveh Province. The Arabic-language al-Sumaria news website quoted an informed source as saying that the terrorists killed the people for cooperating with and spying for the Iraqi security forces. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Daesh terrorists tied the people with rope and put them in a large basin containing nitric acid. The source...