A groupd of children gathered in Eram Park, located in Tehran, to support downtrodden people of Gaza strip

Ayatollah Hashem Hosseini Bushehri, a senior Iranian cleric, on Monday called the crimes committed by the Islamic State (also known as Daesh) in Iraq and Syria ˈmost catastrophicˈ.

“Unfortunately no solid and widespread movement is witnessed from the Islamic countries against the crimes perpetrated by the regime of Zionism,” said the representative of Zabol people in Iran Parliament.

In his message with reference to the demolition of graves of infallible Imams (A.S) of Janat-ul-Baqih, Ayatollah Nouri Hamadani has invited Wahhabis for debate.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has slammed the Israeli regime's military onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza, saying the Tel Aviv regime suffered a humiliating defeat in the besieged Palestinian territory.

No Israeli in the occupied territories feels secure due to the Palestinian resistance's missiles, Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami said, stressing that the Lebanese Hezbollah Movement is also ready to storm the Zionist regime by its high-precision missiles.

Head of Iraqi Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani in a letter addressed to President Hassan Rouhani late Sunday night appreciated Iranˈs support and contributions to Iraqi Kurds under current tough and critical conditions.

Chairman of Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a message on Sunday expressed condolences to families of victims of air crash of Antonov 140.

Head of Islamic Propagation Organization Mehdi Khamoushi said on Sunday that the Muslim World should develop solidarity to stop the human tragedy in Gaza.

President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday condoled families of passngers who lost their lives in an air crash this morning, assigning the road and urban development minister to present a detailed report on the incident.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)—an Al-Qaeda offshoot—has emerged as one of the world’s most bloodthirsty terrorists in recent months due to the groupˈs crimes in Syria and Iraq.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to press ahead with its deadly offesive in the blockaded Gaza Strip.

At least four more Palestinians have been killed in the latest Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip.

Hospitals and medical personnel in the Gaza Strip struggle to cope with the very high number of Palestinians injured in Israeli attacks, Press TV reports.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States and the UK has led to the rise of Takfiri militant group ISIL in the country, Britain’s former foreign secretary David Miliband admits.

Turkey's outgoing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the country’s presidential election, unofficial results say.

Local authorities in Iraq’s Kirkuk say Takfiri ISIL militants are getting closer to the volatile city in northern Iraq.