Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic will not allow enemies to launch an act of aggression against the country’s territory.
Lionized for her strong words and awarded for her espousal of women’s rights, female Iranian poetess and Nobel Literature Prize nominee, Simin Behbahani dies at 87, giving in to health complications.
A senior Iranian official has condemned Israeli raids on the UN sites in the blockaded Gaza Strip, saying the world body must give a “more serious” response to the assaults.
Turkey’s renowned Islamic Imam Hatip schools, also referred to as Imam Khatib, hasve opened a new branch in the Danish city of Slagelse, offering Scandinavian countries the first-ever Islamic theology school.
The Muslim community in Manchester’s Oldham city have vented anger over the desecration of several Muslim graves in Chadderton Cemetery, in the assault identified by police as “racially-motivated” attack.
Muslim scholars and analysts have expressed concern that purported decision of young Muslim girls in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano to dump head covering could be as a result of "needless and unprofessional profiling" by security agents and non-Muslims alike.
India Sunni and Shiite Muslims have united against the rise of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), asserting that the actions of destroying holy sites, supporting sectarianism and divisions between Muslim groups cannot be attributed to a true Islamic state.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the US's “targeted discrimination” against African Americans after an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by the US police and protests over the killing were met with a heavy crackdown.
Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American youth, was shot at least six times by a Ferguson, MO white police officer Darren Wilson according to the preliminary results of an independent autopsy requested by the family. The fatal shot went directly through the top of Brown’s head into his brain, killing him immediately.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham says relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia are on a natural course, expressing hope for the promotion of ties between the two Middle East powers.