International
Floods kill 18 in Saudi Arabia...
( Saudi Arabia )
Riyadh:Flash floods sweeping Saudi Arabia for the past week has left more than a dozen dead as the kingdom grapples with heavy downpours across the country. Saudi Arabia’s civil defense agency said in a statement on Thursday that at least 18 people were killed in the floods which struck areas starting from the desert capital of Riyadh to Hail, Mecca, Medina, Al-Baha, Asir, Najran and Jazan. The statement said a total of 915 people were rescued by the agency. Another report by the Saudi Red...
Iran:OIC dominated by some members,rarely unbiased...
( Iran )
Tehran:Iran has criticized the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for being dominated by certain member states and for its failure to avoid bias in its decision-making processes. “The general atmosphere governing the OIC under the current circumstances is not really indicative of cooperation among Muslim countries and unity in the Muslim world,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who is attending the organization’s 13th summit in the Turkish city of Istanbul, said on Thursday. “Unfortunately,...
Jordan closes headquarters of Muslim Brotherhood affiliated ...
( Jordan )
Amman:Police in Jordan have raided and closed the headquarters of a group affiliated with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement in the capital, Amman, in a move condemned by the group as “illegal.” On Wednesday, a Jordanian official, who spoke anonymously, said the headquarters of the group was sealed because the group is “illegal and not licensed.” The source said “illegal” internal elections had been held secretly within the group. The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan split into...
Saudi Arabia sends ammunition to anti-Iran terror groups in ...
( Saudi Arabia )
Riyadh:Saudi Arabia’s former Crown Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz says his country is supplying anti-Iran militant groups in neighboring Pakistan with large volumes of ammunition. According to Turki bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz, the kingdom’s former head of the presidency of meteorology and environment, Muqrin made the remarks when they paid a visit to former deputy minister of defense and aviation Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, where he had been...
Israel admits strikes in Syria for first time...
( Occupied Palestine )
Tel Aviv:Israel has launched dozens of strikes in Syria, the regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admits for the first time. Visiting Israeli troops in the occupied Golan Heights on Monday, Netanyahu said Israel carried out the attacks to prevent alleged arms transfers to Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah. “We act when we need to act, including here across the border, with dozens of strikes meant to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining game-changing weaponry,” he added. The...
5500 mosques of Iran ready to hold I’tikaf...
( Iran )
Tehran:There are more than 5500 mosques all over Iran to hold I’tikaf ceremony and more than 60000 worshipper from Tehran will attend this holy tradition. According to The Mosques Studies Center ‘’About 5500 Iranian mosques are ready to host worshippers for I’tikaf ceremony’’, the Cultural and Social Affairs Deputy of the Center of Supervision on Mosques Affairs reported. Hojjatul Islam Saeid Karami said: There are also 600 mosques of Tehran Province to hold this holly ceremony which...
Release Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky within 24 hours:Nigerian Lawy...
( Africa )
Abuja:Lawyers who have gained access to detained leader of Nigeria’s Islamic Movement (IMN) have called on Nigerian government to release him unconditionally and without delay. Lawyers who have gained access to detained leader of Nigeria’s Islamic Movement (IMN) have called on Nigerian government to release him unconditionally and without delay. Femi Falana was among a group of activist lawyers recently allowed to see Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky who has been held incommunicado without charge...
Saudi Arabia invites Iran to discuss upcoming Hajj...
( Saudi Arabia )
Riydh:Saudi Arabia has officially invited an Iranian delegation to discuss new arrangements for this year’s Hajj pilgrimage, says the head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization. On Wednesday, Saeed Ohadi said if the Iranian delegates’ visas are issued, they will travel to Riyadh for the April 14 meeting. He noted that similar to former procedures, a letter of agreement will be signed over sending Iranian pilgrims to Mecca if the two sides agree on its terms. “In previous years, we...
Hamas warns of “explosion” in Gaza...
( Palestine )
Gaza:A senior Hamas official has warned of an “explosion” in the Gaza Strip amid Zionist regime’s siege of the impoverished enclave According to Press TV, much of Gaza remains in shambles since Zionist regime’s war against the coastal territory in summer 2014, which martyred more than 2,500 people and wreaked huge destruction across the Strip. Since 2007, Israel and Egypt have imposed a blockade on Gaza which has one of the world’s highest unemployment rates and poverty...
Calls mount for immediate release of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzakay...
( Africa )
Kano:A Nigerian human rights lawyer has called for the immediate and unconditional release of senior Shia cleric and leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky. In a Tuesday letter to the director general of the Department of State Services (DSS), Femi Falana said that Zakzaky and his wife Zeenat should be freed from “illegal detention” within 24 hours. Zakzaky and his wife have been in detention since December last year. The clergyman is said to have been charged...