Iran on Tuesday said it began producing more natural gas from a giant field shared with Qatar, as President Hassan Rouhani declared that the pressure from international sanctions was over, reports The Associated Press (AP). The additional production from the South Pars field, known as North Dome in Qatar, will add 81 million cubic
The Palestinian Authority (PA) was not pleased on Tuesday night with exit polls in Israel that showed that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is the favorite to head a government. Speaking to AFP, the PA’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the results of the elections meant that the Palestinians will continue their unilateral efforts
The Islamic State (ISIS), which has been destroying churches and forcing thousands of non-Muslim women to serve as sex slaves of the jihadists, and in Nineveh, Iraq, it is enforcing sharia law against Muslims. An ISIS report from Nineveh documents in photos the carrying out of a death sentence against two Muslim locals who
The Islamic State terrorist group posted pictures Tuesday of the beheadings of four men it said were recruiters for pro-government militia fighting its terrorists in northern Iraq. The images show four men dressed in black kneeling in an empty street with knife-wielding jihadis standing behind them, after which they are pictured being beheaded.
Islamic State is "laying siege to America," Al-Aqsa Mosque preacher Muhammad Abed ("Abu Abdallah") insisted in two separate Friday sermons from the Temple Mount. ISIS jihadists are "laying siege to America, despite its nuclear arsenal," he stated, in the clip, provided by the Middle Eastern Research Media Institute (MEMRI). "They are laying siege to
An overwhelming majority of 260 out of 290 Iranian parliament members passed a proposal designed to strengthen the regime's policy regarding the nuclear talks with world powers, with three important clauses contained in the document. The first clause demands a removal of all sanctions against Iran that were imposed by the United Nations (UN)
In a recent television interview translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar defended his group’s ties with Iran. "We have maintained that countries that believe in our ideology and can help us - countries like Iran that believe we are capable of liberating Palestine... These are the
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Thursday claimed responsibility for the bloody attack that left 23 people killed at Bardo museum in the capital Tunis on Wednesday, reported AFP. In an audio message posted online, ISIS said “two knights from the Islamic State [ISIS]... heavily armed with automatic weapons and grenades,
An Egyptian court Wednesday sentenced 22 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Mursi to death for an attack on a police station in which one officer was killed. The attack in the town of Kerdasa on the outskirts of Cairo on July 3, 2013 came on the same day that army chief Abdel Fattah
Iraqi army forces and Shi'ite militias, with the help of Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers, continue their fight to liberate Tikrit from Islamic State (ISIS), according to local reports Friday. Iraqi officials explained that Iranian involvement in the region is deepening. Hadi al-Aamiri, leader of the "Badr" sect of the Iraqi parliament, said in
