An al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria has released a video in which it says it will free a group of Fijian UN peacekeepers it kidnapped in the occupied Golan Heights.
Some US lawmakers have questioned President Barack Obama’s plan to arm and train foreign-backed militants in Syria in order to help them fight against ISIL Takfiri group.
Closing Ceremoney of the first international Conference of Islamic World Scholars in Defense of Palestine Resistance was held in the presence of Rafsanjani and other religious clerics.
Iran's Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani voiced concern over the negative impacts of Washington's politically-tainted policy towards campaign against terrorism in various countries, saying that alleging attack on the ISIL in Iraq and arming the same group in Syria means a full lack of logic.
State troopers and police forces in a nearby St. Louis suburb have arrested 35 demonstrators who were protesting against the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old unarmed African American by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August.
American officials say Saudi Arabia has agreed to a request from the US administration to provide bases to train foreign-backed militants fighting against the Syrian government.
Deputy Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Sheikh Naim Qassem lambasted the US for its lack of serious fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and stressed that Washington only means to weaken the terrorist group.
In a ceremony marking the beginning of the new academic year at the Islamic Seminary of Qom, Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi gave advice to seminarians at Qom's famous Madrassah al-Faydhiyah Qom in regard to their duties as scholars.