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Let Muslims lead fight on terror:Ayatollah Khamenei in a Mee...
( Iran )
Tehran:Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a meeting on Monday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, referred to the very long and historical background of cultural, economic and national communications between Iran and India, saying there are extensive grounds for cooperation between the two countries. Ayatollah Khamenei added:”The Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes expansion of relations with India, which is one of the emerging and progressive economies in...
Three policemen shot dead by Militants in Kashmir...
( Kashmir )
Militants on Monday carried out two strikes within as many hours in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, killing three policemen, including an officer, and decamping with service rifle of one of the slain cops. In the first strike, militants shot dead two policemen in Zadibal area of Srinagar at around 10:45 AM. Militants on Monday carried out two strikes within as many hours in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, killing three policemen, including an officer, and decamping with service. The...
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...
Pope calls on France to respect Muslim women Hijab...
( Paris )
France:Pope Francis has urged France to respect the right of Muslim women to profess their faith and wear the hijab same as Christians are allowed to wear the cross. Pope Francis has urged France to respect the right of Muslim women to profess their faith and wear the hijab same as Christians are allowed to wear the cross. “If a Muslim woman wishes to wear a veil, she must be able to do so. Similarly, if a Catholic wishes to wear a cross,” Francis told the French Catholic newspaper La Croix,...
Israel is main threat to Muslim World:Sayyed Hassan Nasralla...
( Lebanon )
Beirut:The leader of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has praised the role of martyrs in the battle against the “Zionist regime and terrorism.” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made the comments during a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Beirut on Sunday. “If it was not for the sacrifice and zeal of resistance martyrs against Zionism and terrorism… there would be no security in the region today,” he noted. For his turn, Amir-Abdollahian...
59 Bangladeshis killed by lightning...
( Bangladesh )
Dhaka:At least 59 people have lost their lives in Bangladesh after being struck by lightning over the past three days, an official says. According to Reaz Ahmed, the head of Bangladesh’s disaster management body, who was speaking on Sunday, 34 people were killed on Thursday in different locations of the capital, Dhaka, and another 25 over the next two days all across the country. “We’ve not seen such a huge number of deaths due to lightning before,” Ahmed said, adding that most of the victims...
Imam Khamenei spells out three main tasks for clerics...
( Iran )
Tehran:Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with a group of Tehran seminaries’ directors, teachers and students on Sunday highlighted “intellectual and religious guidance”, “political guidance and bolstering insight” and “guidance and presence in social services’ arena” as the three main tasks of the clergy, noting: “By acquiring necessary qualifications and knowledge, in today’s different world, clerics must prepare themselves for fulfilling...
Takfiris killed Lebanese commander Badreddine:Hezbollah...
( Lebanon )
Beirut:The Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, says its top military commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed by Takfiri terrorist groups in Syria, adding his death will boost the movement’s resolve to fight the extremist militants. In a statement released on Saturday, Hezbollah said investigation shows that Badreddine’s death was caused by artillery shelling by the militants near the Damascus International Airport. “Investigations have showed that the explosion, which targeted...