The General Court of the European Union (EU) has scrapped sanctions imposed by the 28-nation bloc on the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) for its alleged role in Iran’s nuclear energy program.
The Iranian Embassy in Riyadh in a statement on Saturday dismissed the reports by some Western and Arab media that Iran has dispatched a delegation to Saudi Arabia to discuss Iraq's unrests and developments.
In an open letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Iranian human rights official slams the double standards adopted by the UN on Iran. Following is the text of the letter:
As Muslims worldwide converged for the first Friday prayer in Ramadan, hundreds of Ethiopian Muslims protested against what they perceive as unjustified arrest of 17 of their leaders over terrorism charges a year ago, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.
The Iraqi government has dismissed as falsified a video that purports to show the leader of the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Fasting is not unique to the Muslims. It has been practiced for centuries in connection with religious ceremonies by Christians, Jews, Confucianists, Hindus, Taoists, and Jains.
An international body of Muslim scholars has dismissed an announcement by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants that they are forming a "caliphate", or Islamic state, in areas they control in Iraq and Syria, saying it lacked any Islamic or realistic aspects.
Muslims in Myanmar’s second largest city of Mandalay have accused police of not taking any action when an extremist Buddhist set a number of buildings alight in a Muslim neighborhood.
A majority of Americans blame the recent surge of violence in Iraq on former US president George W. Bush, in addition to opposing the Iraq war as a whole, according to a new poll.
Takfiri militants from the al-Qaeda-linked group, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), have executed at least 10 people in a village in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.