Pope Francis's visit to the historical city of Ur in Iraq attracted enough media attention but what is the significance of Ur and why should it appeal to the leader of Catholic Church in his three-day visit to Iraq?

The trip by Pope Francis with the motto from the Gospel Matthew: "You are all brothers" and his visit to the different places in Iraq, stand for his affection beyond religious prejudices.

He (General Soleimani) evolved from one finite form of life into another infinite form of life and remains, deathless; nor does his wife suffer widowhood.

Once in Syria and Iraq battlefields, General Soleimani is now the commander of Iranians’ hearts.

To encourage the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain towards normalization with Israel can in fact be taken as a result of US failure in materializing the deal of century. This is while the relation between some Persian Gulf states and Israeli regime has been secretly increased during the recent years, a part of which is due to their shared hostility ...

as white nationalists across the world have gained prominence through racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic acts, the world’s focus on terrorism seems to have shifted. Many experts on extremism now focus heavily on the far-right in its many incarnations as an important driver of terrorist threat. But this myopic approach ignores the dynamism that the ...

According to Yinon, “(t)he existence, prosperity and steadfastness of (Israel) depend(s) upon its ability to adopt a new framework for its domestic and foreign affairs,” based on securing its material needs through winnable resource wars and Arab world divisions.

What we in Iran - the target of a vicious and indiscriminate sanctions regime -have seen from the current US administration is quite straightforward: there is no grand vision for an alternative global community. The US' fickleness and unpredictability have nothing to do with masterful implementation of game theory. Rather whether it comes to its ...

Much has been said about the benefits of a genuine, inclusive Islamic unity for Muslims. But will the realization of Islamic unity also benefit the globe?

The need for unity among Muslims is being felt by members of the Ummah more and more these days. What can Muslims personally do to help pave the way for the unity of the Ummah?

Forests are the lungs of the earth but Iran’s nature cannot breathe because of the increasing wildfires which are battled with much difficulties mainly due to lack of equipments.

The thoughts and existence of the Imam Khomeini was free from time and place barriers. He has left long-lasting impressions on the world history.

Hujjat-ul- Islam Hamid Shahriari, secretary general of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought has issued a note on the eve of the 31st passing anniversary of Imam Khomeini (RA) relating on the different aspects of the late leader.

As we approach Quds Day in 2020 which is the last Friday of Ramadan we are witnessing the Zionist genocidal occupiers going into a kind of an extreme frenzy, as they try to erase Palestine from the map. The Zionists are planning to annex part of occupied Palestine, meaning they're going to claim that it is all part of so-called Israel. And ...

Exactly five years ago, the US-backed, Saudi-led Arab coalition carried out its first air strikes on Yemen in an effort to reinstate the disgraced, exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. He is a statesman in name only who I have argued previously has neither power, authority nor legitimacy. The strikes targeted the Houthi movement, which is supported ...

Friday (March 6th) morning, international news agencies reported the arrest of prominent figures of the dynasty and a large number of military-civilian bureaucrats in Saudi Arabia, bringing the Kingdom's domestic politics back to the forefront of the global agenda.

An unease in India, jubilation in Pakistan, and cautious optimism on the streets of Afghanistan sum up the varied moods in South Asia after the signing of the U.S.-Taliban peace deal.

Iran is fighting two outbreaks, only one of which is a physical health hazard. The other is a tendency, equally malignant though, to portray the country as a global threat, in a very novel way.

I remember when ISIL first burst into the global consciousness - with the fall of Mosul on June 4, 2014. I happened to be visiting my parents. My mother rushed in and told me that terrorists in Toyotas had overrun Iraq’s second-largest city in a modern-day Mongol Horde. I rolled my eyes. I explained to her that, as usual, she was exaggerating....

The Trump regime’s assassination of widely respected Iranian Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani made things less safe in the region and beyond. Killing him was an act of war, the highest of high crimes under international law — turning millions of Iranians, Iraqis, others in the region, and elsewhere into raging US haters for good reason....