West media blitz to blame for Jabbari execution: Iran official

The secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights says the propaganda campaign launched by Western media is to blame for the recent execution of a convicted Iranian woman.  The Iranian government sought “to solicit forgiveness from the [victim’s] first-degree families....

Ayat. Sistani urges Iraq govt. to help Sunni tribes against ISIL

Iraq’s most senior Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has called on Baghdad to rush to the aid of the country’s Sunni tribes in their fight against the ISIL Takfiris. In a statement read out by an aide to Ayatollah Sistani in the holy city of Karbala after Friday prayers,...

A 9-month Old Shiite Girl Slains at Imam Hussain Majlis in Karachi

When children are killed in the hail of virulent hatred there is a special kind of barbarity. Children have no agency, not even the slightest shred of the responsibility or complicity that adults to one degree or another may possess for their beliefs. They are not yet old enough to question the choice...

S. Nasrallah: Takfiris� Atrocities Most Serious Distortion of Islam in History

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah asserted that what the takfiris are committing nowadays is the most serious distortion of Islam throughout the history as the means of communication and media convey the images to the entire world.During the third night of Muharram at Sayyed Al-Shuhadaa...

Turkey police clash with Kurds at border

Turkish police have clashed with people gathering at a border gate to welcome Iraqi Kurdish fighters bound for the flashpoint Syrian town of Kobani to fight the ISIL terrorists. Late on Tuesday, Turkish security forces fired teargas to disperse people gathering at Turkish-Iraqi border crossing...

Rousseff vows to continue political reforms

The winner of Brazil’s run-off presidential election, incumbent Dilma Rousseff, says she will be committed to continuing her administration’s political reforms during her second term as president. Rousseff made the remarks during her acceptance speech in the capital, Brasilia,...

Pro-Russians reject Ukraine parliamentary vote as �farce�

Pro-Russia leaders in Ukraine’s restive eastern regions have rejected the results of the country’s parliamentary elections as a “farce.” Deputy Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk Andrei Purgin said Sunday’s snap elections were...

ISIL launches gas attack in Iraq�s Anbar: Local cmdr.

The ISIL Takfiri militants operating in Iraq have reportedly carried out a chemical attack on a residential area in the western part of the violence-stricken country. According to local media reports, the commander of the rapid intervention forces in Iraq’s Anbar province, Shaaban Obaidi,...

Gunmen kill 3 Turkish soldiers in Kurdish town

Unidentified gunmen have reportedly killed three Turkish soldiers in the volatile southeast of the country. The incident happened on Saturday in the Kurdish town of Yuksekova in Hakkari Province, bordering Iraq and Iran, according to Turkey’s semi-official Anatolia news agency. The soldiers...

Pentagon: First US soldier died in offensive against ISIL

The first American military member has been killed in the US-led offensive against the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq, the Pentagon announced on Friday.  Lance Cpl. Sean P. Neal of Riverside, California, was killed in Baghdad on Thursday during what described by the Pentagon as a noncombat-related...

Russian president says US undermines global stability

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of undermining the global stability by trying to impose its will on other countries. In a speech to a group of political scholars known as the Valdai Club in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday, Putin said Washington’s...

Fighting resumes between Kurdish fighters and ISIL terrorists in Kobani

Fighting resumes between the ISIL Takfiri militants and Kurdish fighters defending Kobani, a day after Kurds said the insurgents used chemical weapons against them in the Syrian town. Reports say loud explosions were heard as plumes of smoke were rising above the strategic border city on Thursday. Kobani...

Crisis in region aimed at redrawing Mideast map: Nasrallah

Hezbollah's Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the ongoing crisis in the region is aimed at redrawing the map of the Middle East. Nasrallah also said on Monday night that the continuation of the presence of ISIL Takfiri group in the region serves “the interests of Turkey...

Press TV Reporter Killed in Mysterious Crash in Turkey

Serena Shim Press TV reporter, reportedly killed in a car accident in southern Turkey near the Syrian border. Prior to her death, Serena had shared with Press TV her fear that she was accused by Turkish intelligence authorities of being a spy, and that she was being closely followed. Sorrow and grief....

Ayatollah Sistani Backs Iraqi Government

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has met with the country's prime minister in a sign of support for his newly-formed government and its struggle against the ISIS...

Tehran to act if Islamabad refuses to secure border: Iran general

Iran will step in to contain terrorists if Pakistan refuses to take measures in order to secure its borders to keep terrorists from slipping into the Islamic Republic, a senior Iranian military commander says. “We believe that every country should respect its commitments vis-à-vis...

Brazil prison hostage standoff ends, guards freed

A riot and hostage standoff in a prison in Brazil has come to an end following the release of 10 captive guards by the rioting inmates. Local authorities announced Wednesday that the “rebellion” came to a conclusion after the demand of the rioting inmates that they be transferred...

Russia won�t be blackmailed, Putin says

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Washington that further tensions over Ukraine could threaten global stability and that his country would not be blackmailed by sanctions. Putin made the comments during an interview with the Serbian daily Politika on Wednesday, ahead of a brief visit...

US could avert ISIL genocide in Kobani: Historian

The US has written off Kobani where an ISIL-instigated genocide is under way, a historian tells Press TV. Webster Griffin Tarpley an author and historian from Washington told Press TV in an interview Monday that US Secretary of State John Kerry “is essentially saying that he has written...

5 Taliban Commanders Declare Allegiance to ISIS

Five Taliban commanders in Pakistan and their spokesman announced formal allegiance Tuesday to the ISIS militant group, in a blow to al-Qaeda's dominance in the region. Spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said he had accepted the "leadership of the Islamic State chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi", whose group...

Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei:
'US efforts against ISIL not real'

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei says efforts by the US and its allies against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists are not real. “If anyone fuels the fire in this regard (the so-called fight against the ISIL), he or she will definitely be helping sinister America...

Ukraine suffers inadequate gas supplies: Analyst

Ukraine has to reach an energy deal with Russia due to its insufficient gas supplies , says an analyst. “The gas supplies [are] inadequate," Dmitry Linnik, from the London Bureau chief of Voice of Russia, said in an interview with Press TV, adding "Despite the recently loaded deal with...

US seeks to be dominant force in ME: Activist

The United States seeks to regain the “position of dominance” it once used to enjoy in the Middle East, says an activist. “The game of smoke and mirrors that is being played is very clear … I would say that is the central feature of the situation so that United States...

Syrian Kurds repel 7 ISIL attacks on Kobani

Kurdish militants continue defending the northern Syrian city of Kobani, thwarting seven overnight attacks by the ISIL terrorists aimed at capturing the city. According to Kurdish sources, the Takfiri militants intensified their onslaught from the south, west and east of the Kurdish city. Kurdish...

25 killed in Anti ISIS Violence in Turkey

Two police officers were killed and a police chief was seriously wounded in an attack in Turkey's eastern province of Bingol on Thursday, CNN Turk television reported, while clashes elsewhere killed four protesters. The violence came at a time of growing tensions in Turkey, with local Kurds furious...

Protests continue in St. Louis over police shooting of another black teen

Hundreds of angry protesters have clashed with police in the US city of St. Louis for a second consecutive night after a white police officer fatally shot another black teenager. As many as 400 demonstrators chanted and marched through St. Louis in the state of Missouri on Thursday night following...

Malala and Kailash Satyarthi Win Nobel Peace Prize

Children's rights activists Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited the two "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education." Yousafzai,...

Kurds getting upper hand in battle for Kobani

Kurdish fighters in Syria’s border town of Kobani are getting the upper hand as urban warfare rages on between them and the ISIL Takfiri terrorists. According to reports on Wednesday, the Kurdish fighters, who know the battle field in the area much better than the Takfiris, have driven...

Pakistani Taliban Pledges Support for ISIS

In a move with potentially enormous regional consequences, the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Pakistan's primary militant faction, has pledged its backing to ISIS, promising to provide the caliphate with fighters and "every possible support", Anti War reported. The comments were made in a statement...

Iran Warns Turkey against Aggravating Regional Tensions

Iran warned neighbouring Turkey Thursday against doing anything that might aggravate tensions in the region, after the parliament in Ankara voted to authorise military intervention in Syria and Iraq.Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke by telephone with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu,...