International
Saudi authorities review security plans for Hajj...
( Saudi Arabia )
Riyadh:Saudi authorities have held a workshop to review security plans for Hajj rituals, months after the deadly crush in Mina.According to the English-language daily Saudi Gazette, the three-day workshop, which was attended by various government officials, reviewed emergency medical plans and “the lessons of last year’s hajj season.” The crush took place on September 24, 2015, after two large masses of pilgrims converged at a crossroads in Mina during the symbolic ceremony...
Bomb attack hits football game at Baghdad,30 dead and 65 inj...
( Iraq )
Baghdad:At least 30 people have been killed in a bomb attack targeting a local football game in a village south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. According to police and medics, the attack took place around 7:00 p.m. (1600 GMT) on Friday in the village of Al-Asriya when an assailant blew his explosives in the crowd when the winners were being handed the trophy. Over 65 people were also wounded in the explosion with medical sources warning that the number of fatalities could rise. No group has so far...
Al Saud committing genocide in Yemen to serve Israel: Ansaru...
( Yemen )
Sana:Yemen’s Ansarullah movement leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, says Saudi Arabia is committing genocide against the Yemeni people as it continues with its deadly aggression against the impoverished nation. The Saudi forces and its mercenaries have come to Yemen to wipe out a generation, Houthi said during a televised address on Friday, adding that they want to raze Yemen to the ground. He said the Saudi regime has committed numerous crimes against the Yemenis. The Saudi...
Pope Francis washes and kisses the feet of Muslim, Hindu, an...
( Italy )
Rome:Pope Francis performed an annual Easter season ritual on Thursday (March 24), kneeling in front of Muslim, Hindu, and Christian refugees and washing and kissing their feet at a shelter in Castelnuovo di Porto, Italy. The “Holy Thursday Mandatum” reenacts Jesus’s washing of his apostle’s feet before his crucifixion, and is performed by the Pope and other Catholic leaders to remind the faithful that they are to serve others humbly. This was the first year that women were included, and...
Boko Haram abducts 16 women in Nigeria...
( Africa )
Niger:Suspected Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists have kidnapped 16 women in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa, local officials say.Police said they have received reports of the kidnap of 14 women and two girls by gunmen believed to be Boko Haram insurgents near Sabon Garin Madagali village.According to locals, the women were abducted in the bush Wednesday while fetching fire wood and fishing in a river. Two women jumped into the river and pretended to have drowned. They later returned to...
Kashmir is jugular vein of Pakistan:President Mamnoon Hussai...
( Pakistan )
Islamabad:President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday called Kashmir the “jugular vein of Pakistan” even as he sought a peaceful resolution of the long-standing dispute with India over it. “We are a peace loving nation and want peaceful relations with other nations, especially our neighbours,” Hussain said in his address at the Pakistan Day parade ceremony where the country’s armed forced showcased their military might. He said Kashmir is the “jugular vein of Pakistan”...
Al Saud regime detains top cleric in Eastern Province...
( Saudi Arabia )
Riyadh:Saudi regime’s security forces have arrested a prominent Shia cleric over his anti-regime comments as Riyadh continues its crackdown on the minority sect. Media reports said on Tuesday that security forces arrested Ayatollah Hussein al-Radhi shortly after he led prayers in the al-Ahsa oasis region of Eastern Province. The detention came after the senior cleric wrote an article in which he criticized the House of Saud for jailing and executing critics and dissidents,...
Hillary Clinton’s Emails leaked:A Sunni-Shiite War Would b...
( US )
Tel Aviv:The intelligence service of Israel considers a potential Sunni-Shiite war in Syria a favorable development for the country and the West, according to an email archive of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, released by WikiLeaks. The author of the email, forwarded by Clinton in July 2012, argued that Israel is convinced Iran would lose “its only ally” in the Middle East, if the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad collapses. “The fall of the House of Assad could...
Islamic Revolution keep Palestine cause alive:Hamas...
( Palestine )
Gaza:One of the senior members of Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement has emphasized the depth of relationship between this movement and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Osameh Hamdan the head of the Hamas Movement office in Lebanon who has traveled to Tehran in an exclusive interview with Al-Alam News Network has put emphasis on the fact that the depth of relationship between Iran and Hamas has its roots in the principle of full scale support for the issue of Palestine as one of the principles...
Wahabiasm have no link with Islam and Muslims,they are puppe...
( Iran )
Tehran:The duty of all religious scholars and Islamic seminaries is to engage in intellectual and scientific confrontation with the Wahhabis we need to prove to everyone that the Wahhabis are the agents of the enemies of Islam and that their ideas are anti-Islamic in nature. Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi took part in a ceremony held this afternoon for the launching of a new specialized website on “Wahhabism review” which is affiliated with the “Dār al-E‘lām Li madrasah Ahl-al-Bayt...