Only regional states can protect security of region: Rouhani

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has lambasted foreign interference in regional issues, reiterating that peace and security of the region must only be ensured by its nations. "The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that only regional countries, particularly Iran and Pakistan, must endeavor and cooperate...

The Revolutionary Guards and Explaining Revolutionary Discourse

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is a guardian of the Islamic Revolution and its achievements. An important part of these achievements is defined in the cultural and social sphere. In that sense, the Revolutionary Guard must defend the identity of the Islamic Iran in a new age that is the era of...

MPs Furious Over Leaflets Dropped By US Army

Members of the Wolesi Jirga (the Upper House of Parliament) on Monday voiced their objection to the drop of leaflets in Parwan, Kapisa and in Kohdaman district of Kabul province by the US army last Tuesday. MPs issued a statement and said the United States army insulted Islam values by dropping such...

Suicide attack targets foreign troops convoy in Bagram

A suicide attack rocked Bagram district in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan this afternoon targeting a convoy of the foreign forces. According to the local officials, the incident took place after a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the convoy of the American forces. District...

NUG Leaders Slammed Over Vacant Cabinet Posts

Three years after the formation of the National Unity Government (NUG), under president Ashraf Ghani and CEO Abdullah Abdullah, the two leaders so far have not managed to take solid steps to filling all cabinet posts - an issue that critics say has had a negative impact on governance and service delivery. Currently,...

Was Saudi Arabia Involved in 9/11 Attacks?

New evidence submitted in a lawsuit against the Saudi regime shows that its embassy in Washington may have funded a 9/11 "dry run" by two Saudis. As reported by the New York Post, the embassy might have used two of its employees for the so-called dry run before a dozen hijackers flew two planes into...

OIC leaders urge swift end to violence against Rohingya Muslims

Senior leaders of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states have stressed the importance of taking swift action to put an immediate end to the ongoing brutal violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. On the sidelines of the first OIC summit on science and technology in...

Arab countries, Qatar should mend Persian Gulf rift by direct talks: Russian FM

Russia says the so-called quartet of Arab countries, led by Saudi Arabia, and Qatar should begin direct negotiations to defuse an unprecedented diplomatic crisis that erupted three months ago in the Persian Gulf region. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a joint press conference with his...

Modi, Abe to kick-start India�s first bullet train project

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe will break ground on India�s first bullet train project on Thursday in western Gujarat state, as the country seeks faster travel for millions. Modi has pledged to invest billions of dollars to modernize India�s creaking railway...

McCain threatens North Korea with �extinction�

US Republican Senator John McCain has warned North Korean leader Kim Jong-un against attacking America and its allies, saying such aggression will lead to the Eastern Asian country�s "extinction." Washington needs to "make sure that Kim Jong-un knows that if he acts in an aggressive fashion, the price...

Mass rally expected in Barcelona in support of Catalonia independence

Hundreds of thousands are expected to take to the streets of the Spanish city of Barcelona to declare their support for a planned referendum on Catalonia�s independence from the mainland amid efforts by the central government to block the highly-anticipated vote. People from towns and villages across...

UN asks for aid to tackle Rohingya crisis unfolding in southern Bangladesh

The United Nations has appealed for aid to tackle a humanitarian crisis unfolding in southern Bangladesh, where the number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar has neared 300,000. UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Robert Watkins said on Sunday that the wave of traumatized refugees was...

Russian Mir cards to replace Visa, MasterCard soon

Russia�s biggest bank Sberbank says it is preparing to issue 10 million credit cards to citizens - a move which is expected to take the country closer to a plan to replace rivals like Visa and MasterCard. Sberbank announced in a statement that the recipients of what is called Mir credit cards would...

Riyadh may have sponsored 9/11 �dry run�: New lawsuit data

New evidence in a lawsuit, which holds Saudi Arabia responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks, shows that the kingdom may have funded a "dry run" prior to the incident. The lawsuit alleges that the Saudi embassy in Washington paid for two Saudi nationals, living undercover in the US as students,...

Iran�s missile boat warns off US warship in Sea of Oman

An Iranian missile boat has warned off an American warship approaching an Iranian dhow in the Sea of Oman, the Navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army said in a statement on Sunday. "The dhow, Shams (Sun), had set sail from the port city of Jask in southeastern Iran to test its motor. Forty-five miles...

Hurricane Irma pummels Florida amid mass exodus

Hurricane Irma has regained strength as it begins pummeling Florida, threatening almost the entire southeastern US state after leaving a deadly path of destruction across the Caribbean islands. Irma strengthened to a Category 4 storm as it closed in on the island chain known as the Florida Keys, the...

Merkel Says Iran Deal a Model for solving North Korea Issue

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has proposed that the North Korea crisis can be solved using the 2015 agreement with Iran as a model for negotiations. "If our participation in talks is desired, I will immediately say yes," Merkel told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in an interview published...

Disappointed Saudis Seek Face-saving Yemen War Exit

The Saudis cannot win the war they launched against the neighboring Yemen two-and-a-half-Year ago due to the resistant nation�s strong inclination to maintain its dignity. Saudi Arabia�s decision to launch a bloody aggression on Yemen was a disastrous mistake, and its expenses are increasingly dragging...

Afghan history, culture�s historic friend Nancy Dupree dies in Kabul

The Afghan history and culture�s historic friend Nancy Dupree, a well known American historian, died at the age of 90 in Kabul. Nancy was admitted to a hospital due to an illness she was suffering from and died late on Saturday night. Born in India to American parents in 1927, Madam Nancy for the first...

Afghanistan ready for comprehensive talks with Pakistan, Ghani tells Erdogan

President Mohammad Ashra Ghani met with his Turkish counterpart Recap Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a summit in Kazakhstan as he reaffirmed his stance that Afghanistan is ready for comprehensive talks with Islamabad. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said the two sides discussed topics including...

US plans to expand military ties with Myanmar amid atrocities against Rohingya: Report

The United States is not likely to intervene to stop the ethnic cleansing campaign against Myanmar’s downtrodden Rohingya Muslims and is even drafting a bill to expand US military cooperation with the Southeast Asian country bordering China – a regional super power the US is trying...

France must scrap own nuclear arsenal instead of criticizing Pyongyang: North Korea

A senior North Korean official has lashed out at France over its criticism of Pyongyang�s atomic program, urging Paris to scrap its own nuclear arsenal. "Recently, high ranking French politicians startled the people by saying absurd things with regards to the DPRK�s (North Korea�s) successful detonation...

Egypt announces discovery of 3,500-year-old tomb

Egypt has announced the discovery in the southern city of Luxor of a pharaonic tomb belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago during the reign of the 18th dynasty. The tomb is located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery where noblemen and top government officials...

Coach Paterno had prior knowledge Sandusky was child sex abuser: police report

Legendary former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had known years before Jerry Sandusky�s arrest that his longtime assistant might be sexually abusing children. Michael McQueary, his other assistant, had reported to Paterno an extreme sexual incident he witnessed in a locker room between Sandusky...

Najib Razak says Myanmar�s Rohingya Muslims face systematic atrocities

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar face systematic atrocities, including torture, rape and murder, which have recently forced several hundred thousands of members of the persecuted minority to seek refuge across the border in neighboring Bangladesh. The Malaysian premier...

Japan conducts air exercise with US over East China Sea

The Japanese military has conducted a joint aerial combat drill with the United States over the East China Sea amid escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Japan�s Air Self Defense Force (ASDF) said Saturday that the military drill involved two Japanese F-15 jet fighters joining two US Air Force...

Sayyaf warns sidelining of Mujahideen to have negative repercussions

The former Afghan lawmaker and Mujahideen leader Abdul Rab Rasool Sayyaf once again warned against efforts aimed at sidelining of the Mujahideen from the political and other affairs of the country. Speaking during a ceremony in Kabul, Sayyaf said Mujahideen are like the armor vests and emphasized that...

Abdullah calls Taliban a �terrorist group� Afghanistan marks week of martyrs

The chief executive of the government of national unity Abdullah Abdullah called the Taliban group a ‘terrorist group� as Afghanistan marks the week of martyrs by paying tribute to the national hero Ahmad Shah Massoud who was assassinated sixteen years ago. In a statement released on the occasion...

Ghadir Khumm and the Orientalists

The 18th of Dhu ‘l-Hijja is celebrated in the Shi’a world as the ‘idd of Ghadir Khumm in which Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) said about Imam ‘Ali: “Whomsoever’s master (mawla) I am, this ‘Ali is also his master.” This event is of such significance to the...

Ghadir Tradition: The Expressive Evidence for Guardianship

Prepared by Islamic Sciences and Researches Group Qom Unprecedented offence! In the open political climate recently established in the country, a number of Sunnite Molavi in the southern parts of the country, have started their offence to the Shiite beliefs (state’s official school) in contrary...