The attack came as Syrian Forces presses an offensive against ISIS in the town of Tabqa as part of an assault on the extremist bastion Raqqa. The dawn ISIS attack hit a makeshift camp where some 300 families were waiting to cross into government-held territory in Hasakeh province, in northeastern Syria. "At least five suicide attackers blew themselves up outside and inside a camp for Iraqi refugees and displaced Syrians in Hasakeh province," ...
Senior commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) offered their deep condolences over the martyrdom of Abu Muntadhar al-Muhamadawi, a top commander of Iraq's Badr ...
The bachelor’s program is to focus scientifically on religious, cultural and historical aspects of Islam.
The scientific success of Islamic studies will be reviewed by the university in three years.
Germany announced plans earlier this year to set up institutes for Islamic studies to train new generations of Muslim clerics and religious teachers more attuned to western society, and to exert subtle control over how the country’s growing ...
High profile Scots Muslims have spoken of the racist abuse they and their friends and families have suffered in the wake of the terror attacks across Europe this summer.
Many have had to endure everything from verbal abuse to physical attacks – which are not always reported to the authorities.
Despite this, high profile Muslims were keen to praise the vast majority of Scots who offer support after such incidents.
Scottish Government ...
--Concurrent with the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Ali ibn Hussein Zainul Abedin (AS), a mourning ceremony is slated to be held Sunday night, January 10, in Al-Kawsar Cultural Institute in The Hague.
According to Al-Fajr website, the institute’s information dissemination committee has invited Shia Muslims in the city to attend the spiritual ceremony, which will start at 6 p.m. local time.
Imam Sajjad (AS), the fourth Shia Imam, was ...
The two nations of Iran and Egypt love Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) and this is one of the major common points between the two peoples. This is according to Ameneh Mohammad Nassir, Egyptian Quran researcher and lecturer at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University. She said since the time of the Fatimid dynasty, Egyptians have revered the dear Household of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). She said that the two nations also have a lot in common in terms of striving ...
“It’s a lot of speakers and I can get some knowledge from great scholars all over the U.S., and to be good examples for Muslims, especially with these circumstances around the world and in the U.S., and to represent Islam in a good way,” Essa said.
“Islam encourages us to work for justice in the society, but what extremists are doing goes directly against the principals of Islam,” said Naeem Baig, president of ...
At least 18 pilgrims have been injured in a crush near Islam’s holiest site, Saudi media say, just over six months after hundreds lost their lives in a tragic stampede during the last year Hajj rituals.
AhlulBayt News Agency - At least 18 pilgrims have been injured in a crush near Islam’s holiest site, Saudi media say, just over six months after hundreds lost their lives in a tragic stampede during the last year Hajj ...
More than a dozen civilians have lost their lives in a powerful bomb explosion that ripped through a residential neighborhood in Iraq’s central province of Karbala.
The Euphrates Operations Command said in a statement released on Monday that the incident took place in the town of Ayn Tamer, located 120 kilometers (74.5 miles) west of the provincial capital city of Karbala, the previous night, when five terrorists clad in explosives-laden ...
-- The first international Islamic TV and Radio station in Spanish will be launched this holy Month of Ramadan (August-September), Time Türk reported.
The Cordoba Islamic TV and Radio Station will be launched by Saudi Arabia and will broadcast programs via satellite to different parts of the world.
According to Sheikh Abdul-Azeez al-Fawzan, director of Resala al-Islam website, which is a Spanish website based in Saudi Arabia, while there ...
- Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei ordered decisive reaction by all Iranian organizations to cases of exorbitant, unconventional wages, and called for unrelenting punitive action on breaking ...
Secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah stressed that cultural and religious relations between Iran and the Islamic resistance movement should further strengthen. Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah made the statement in a meeting with the visiting the Supreme Leader's Representative and Head of the Organization of Oghaf and Charity Affairs Ali Mohammadi. They reviewed regional developments as well as recent victories achieved by the resistance front, ...
FIFA reportedly moved its annual congress to Bahrain from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur after authorities there withdrew from hosting the event, citing problems with allowing entry visas to some delegates, including officials from the Israeli ...
Religious leaders, scholars and government officials from China and other countries urged Muslims to resist religious extremism and condemn terrorism at a symposium.
Participants from Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan gathered in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, to share their insights on Islam and experience in combating terrorism.
The symposium is hosted by the China Religious ...
-- A 2-day international conference entitled 'Religion and Peaceful Coexistence' kicks off today in the Iranian capital of Tehran.
Religious education in the modern era, religious teaching and international law, minority rights and peaceful coexistence, religion and international challenges, and international relations and the roles of religions are among the most important subjects to be addressed at the conference.
According to ...
Ultimately, the United States, Britain, France, the Zionist regime and Saudi Arabia will pay a very high price for the air strikes. The Oval Office and its allies have seriously miscalculated the consequences of the attacks and made security mistakes. It's as if Washington and its partners have not learned their lesson in Syria and the West Asia region for the last five years.
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - US, UK and French air strikes in Syria has ...
Bahraini forces have attacked a group of demonstrators who had taken to the street to denounce Manama’s decision to revoke the nationality of prominent Shia Muslim cleric, Sheikh Issa Qassim.
On Saturday, dozens of protesters staged a rally in al-Eker village south of the capital, Manama, to voice their solidarity with the 79-year-old spiritual leader of Bahrain’s main opposition bloc, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society.
They ...
--Kenya Muslims have begun the journey to Mecca for the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Close to 200 pilgrims left for Mecca and Medina Tuesday while 35 others were said to have travelled last week.
The leaders of the group Al Haj Mohamed Hajar and Sheikh Omar told the Nation that thousands of potential Muslims may not make it to the annual pilgrimage to Mecca owing to financial constraints.
The Muslims were given 3,000 places by Saudi ...
