Share prices in Persian Gulf Arab states have slumped following a decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to maintain crude output in an oversupplied market.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has emphasized the role of Iran’s Navy in protecting national security, calling on the naval forces to further boost their preparedness in the face of enemy threats.
An Islamic initiative to denounce domestic violence during Friday's sermons at Australian mosques has been praised by Muslim women groups, considering the move a “good start” to tackle the problem in the Muslim community.
Member of Assembly of Experts and Leader's representative in Fars province Ayatollah Asadollah Imani said on Saturday that ICIM is a suitable opportunity to establish Islamic media.
Undersecretary of Sudan Information Ministry and an official at the Uganda Prime Ministry arrived in Tehran Sunday morning to attend the 10th Islamic Conference of Information Ministers (ICIM)
Lake Urmia is a salt lake in northwestern Iran. It is near Iran's border with Turkey. The lake is between the provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan in Iran, and west of the southern portion of the Caspian Sea.
The Iraqi military, supported by volunteer fighters, has succeeded in flushing out Takfiri ISIL militants from the Hamrin Mountains in the eastern province of Diyala, Press TV reports.
In a meeting with a number of Muslim scholars from Syria held in Iran’s central city of Qom on Thursday, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani cautioned against the plots hatched by enemies of Islam, and called for Muslims' joint efforts to thwart them.
Thousands of Palestinians have been evacuated from their homes and moved to safer places in the Gaza Strip after heavy flooding struck the besieged coastal sliver earlier this week.
Scores of Nigerian Muslim worshippers were killed and hundreds injured in a spat of blasts that targeted a mosque in Kano city on Friday, November 28, sparking outrage over the bloody turn in Boko Haram’s brutal attacks.
A prominent Bahraini Shia cleric has called upon the ruling Al Khalifa regime to agree to elections and referendum as demanded by the public, noting that pro-democracy protests will continue unabated in the country.
Ruqayyah bint Hussain or Sukaina (Sakina is a derivative of "Sakoon" meaning "Peace") was the daughter of Husayn ibn ‘Alī and Rubab (the daughter of the chief of the Kinda Imra al-Qays tribe).
Iran has dismissed as “baseless” a statement by Persian Gulf Arab states supporting United Arab Emirates' alleged ownership of three Iranian islands, saying the Persian Gulf islands are integral part of the country.
Calls by a senior Church of England bishop to recite Qur’an during the opening of Prince Charles's coronation have drawn the ire of traditionalist Christians who considered it a sign of "losing confidence".
A Russian official has called on the European Union (EU) to abandon what he called the “meaningless sanctions spiral” and to lift the bans already imposed against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.
The United States and Israel are run by “Zionist psychopaths” who are recruiting and training “mind-controlled killers” to “set the Middle East on fire,” says a political activist in Wyoming.