Saudi forces shell homes in Awamiyah, Two killed

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Saudi regime forces have launched a fresh wave of shelling attacks against a besieged town in Saudi Arabia’s Shia-populated Eastern Province, killing at least two person and damaging several houses. On Wednesday, a series of video footage circulating on social media websites showed Saudi troops, equipped with heavy weapons, waging a new offensive against Awamiyah, located some 390 kilometers ...

( 2017-07-26 22:22:12 )

Imam Khamenei attends Dust Clearing ceremony at Imam Reza's Holy Shrine

The atmosphere was a spiritual one, with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution present, as well as elite individuals and people from various social groups.

The Dust Clearing ceremony is held every year at the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (as); and Ayatollah Khamenei is faithfully present for the event each year.

( 2017-07-23 22:49:50 )

Photos/ professor Ansarian,s lecture in the mosque of Imam Hussein (AS) in the Holy city of Mashhad/ on the day of Imam Jaffar Sadiq,s martyrdom

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( 2017-07-22 00:43:00 )

6 killed as Pakistan, India exchange fire in Kashmir’s LoC

The director general of Pakistan’s military operations, Maj. Gen. Sahir Shamshad Mirza, said Monday that Indian forces had attacked a Pakistani military vehicle traveling along the LoC, the de facto border that separates the two parts of Kashmir between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Shamshad Mirza said that four soldiers were killed in the attack.Indian authorities denied the report, saying forces deployed in the Rajouri sector of ...

( 2017-07-19 15:01:09 )

The live broadcast of Professor Ansarian,s lectures at the Dar Al-Afrān Institute of Information center.

It is worth mentioning that the lectures of Professor Ansariyan at Husseiniya of Maktab Al-Zahra in Mashhad will be broadcasted for five night at 9:30 pm from the telegram channel (Telegram.me/www_erfan_ir) and the official website of professor ...

( 2017-07-17 23:11:00 )

Saudi crackdown in Shiite regions continues with US green light

When it comes to the cultural and social taking, the government treats the Shiites like second-class citizens. For example, the courts do not consider valid their testimony, or a Shiite cannot marry a Sunni Muslim according to the state’s law. They also face restrictions on performing religious rituals. The Saudi government denies them authorization to build new mosques or Hussainyas, the Shiite commemoration halls, nor does it allow them ...

( 2017-07-17 00:49:38 )

Parisian activists rally against Netanyahu's visit

At the same time,French activists have launched a protest rally against the planned visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Paris, slamming Bibi’s human rights violations across the occupied Palestinian ...

( 2017-07-17 00:49:05 )

Egyptian forces kill 3 Takfiris in central Sinai raid

A four-wheel drive and five cashes containing explosives were destroyed by the forces.

The move comes as part of the army's continued efforts to raid terrorist hotbeds and hunt down terrorists in central Sinai.

Meanwhile, security forces patrolling Ahmed Hamdy Tunnel in Suez seized a truck carrying one ton of cannabis.

( 2017-07-17 00:48:41 )

Terrorists shoot at Iranian border from Pakistan, two workers martyred

The terrorist attack took place in Saturday afternoon when the attackers affiliated to the global arrogance and foreign spying services shot at the Iranian border areas in Saravan region and faced the countermeasure from the IRGC forces. One of the terrorists were killed and two others were injured in the clash while another two fled to Pakistan, said the report. Two local Iranian workers were reported dead by terrorists fire during the ...

( 2017-07-17 00:47:55 )

Eight British Muslims kick off Hajj journey on bikes

he bikers will travel for six weeks through eight countries covering over 2,000 miles in order to raise £1m for those affected by the Syrian war, Ilmfeed reported on Friday, July 14. Kicking off their journey from the UK, they will travel through France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy then Greece. Ideally, they would have liked to travel to Saudi Arabia via Turkey, Syria and Jordan but due to security reasons they will take travel by ship ...

( 2017-07-15 20:23:21 )

Former British ambassador: Saudi-Qatar dispute, battle for the future of ME

He called for clarity in definitions of funding terrorism and “a grown-up dialogue with the [Persian] Gulf about what we think”. He added there were also “individual [Persian] Gulf citizens that defied their governments to fund terrorism.” Patey, the UK ambassador to Saudi from 2006 to 2010 and previously head of the Foreign Office Middle East desk, also questioned whether Saudi Arabia and its allies had worked out the ...

( 2017-07-15 20:23:00 )

14 dead, 30 injured in twin suicide attacks in Cameroon

The bombings, which took place on Wednesday evening in Waza near the Nigerian border, targeted a busy area in the market town, the sources said. The bombers struck an area with "restaurants, telephone cabins and kiosks", a local official said. "The town has been sealed off. Nobody can enter and nobody can leave," the source said, adding that some of the wounded were in "quite serious" condition. Though Boko Haram was born in Nigeria, the ...

( 2017-07-15 20:22:55 )

Sayyed Nasrallah: US created ISIS, allowed regional states to fund terrorist group

In a televised speech, Sayyed Nasrallah said that ISIS invasion of Mosul in 2014 was eminent and pushed many Iraqis to get frustrated and disappointed, adding that Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Sistani later issued a historical call (Fatwa) for all the Iraqis to fight the terrorists. Hezbollah leader maintained that the Ayatollah Sistani’s Fatwa managed to move the Iraqi’s out of the state of disappointment and frustration and contributed to ...

( 2017-07-15 20:21:15 )

Islamic Umma slams closure of al-Aqsa Mosque by Israel

The Friday gunfight took place just outside the Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount) and left three Palestinians and two Israeli police officers dead.Following the incident, Israeli police closed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, briefly detained Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the grand mufti of Jerusalem al-Quds, and cancelled Muslim Friday prayers at the site.“We insist on reaching al-Aqsa mosque and performing prayers there. The occupation preventing us ...

( 2017-07-15 20:20:43 )

Three Shia martyred in attack by Saudi forces in Qatif

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Saudi regime forces, as part of their ongoing crackdown on Shiite Muslims in the oil-rich kingdom, killed three citizens in al-Awamiyah in Eastern Province, media reports said on Saturday. In an attack on a neighborhood in Awamiyah in the al-Qatif region by the Saudi security forces, three people were martyred and several others were injured, according to the Arabic-language al-Alam News Network.'Hassan Abdullah', ...

( 2017-07-15 20:20:22 )

US soldier arrested in Hawaii on terrorism charges

Ikaika Erik Kang, 34, an air traffic control specialist who also had extensive military training in hand-to-hand combat, was arrested by the FBI on Saturday following a year-long undercover probe, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. An FBI affidavit filed in court with the criminal complaint summarized a lengthy sting operation employing several undercover agents and other "confidential human sources" who posed as ISIS operatives ...

( 2017-07-12 16:20:33 )

Bahraini court sentences Nabeel Rajab to 2 years behind bars

A Bahraini court sentenced prominent human rights activist and president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Nabeel Rajab, to a two-year prison term, in a case involving television interviews in 2015 and 2016, which the authorities said would "undermine its prestige"."The minor Criminal Court issued its verdict on Monday against a defendant accused of a crime of broadcasting and spreading false news and rumors about the internal ...

( 2017-07-12 16:19:43 )

Hashd Al-Shaabi commander: US seeks more plots in post-ISIS Iraq

"The Americans are in the operations room as military advisors to give advice to the security bodies, including the army and the interior ministry but we in Hashd al-Shaabi don’t need the Americans," the commander said on Sunday. Asked about the rumors about the deployment of Blackwater security firm forces at the Iraqi-Syrian borders, he said that the Central government has agreed with its presence but Blackwater has no power to control ...

( 2017-07-09 21:26:44 )

Mission completed; Mosul fully liberated

The Iraqi forces recaptured the last ISIS-held area in Mosul's Old City district on Saturday, announcing the complete liberation of the city. Lieutenant Colonel Thaer al-Kinani, a commander in the Iraqi elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), congratulated the people of Iraq for the fall of ISIS in Mosul.Kinani further added that there were heavy clashes between the CTS units and the ISIS insurgents in the areas, stating that the Iraqi forces ...

( 2017-07-09 21:26:16 )

New Turkish aggression in Aleppo proves Ankara as partner in terrorism: Syria

The Ministry informed the UN Secretary General and the Head of the Security Council in two letters on Thursday that the Turkish forces recently carried out new incursions in several areas of the Syrian territory, mainly in Azaz, Jibrin and Ekhtrin in northern Aleppo.It noted that Syria explained in previous similar letters to the UN chief officials Turkey’s acts of occupying Syrian land, using armed force and supporting the armed terrorist ...

( 2017-07-08 19:01:37 )