NEW DELHI: Major Sunni Waqf Group in India strongly reacts over the controversial Babri masjid verdict by Indian Supreme Court. Expressing disassociation over Indian Supreme Court's judgement in Ayodhya case, Sunni Central Waqf Board, one of the respondents, has called the ruling ...

TEHRAN - A Sunni imam who leads Friday prayers was shot dead on Tuesday in a village in northern Iran, official news agency *IRNA* said. Molavi Abdolghafur Jamalzahi was an imam at the Reza Abad mosque, near Ramiyan, around 120 kilometres northeast of Tehran in Golestan province. He was shot ...

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is quietly pushing ahead with a bid to create a new security and political alliance with six Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan, in part to counter Iran´s expansion in the region, according to U.S. and Arab officials. The White House wants to see deeper ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel Monday that Iranian meddling in the Middle East could touch off massive new refugee flows to Europe, as they clashed about the future of the nuclear deal with Tehran. At the start of a three-day European tour dominated ...

RIYADH – New US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo underscored the need for unity in the Gulf during a brief visit to the Saudi capital on Sunday as Washington aims to muster support among allies for new sanctions against Iran. Pompeo reassured Saudi Arabia that the United States would abandon the ...

Lately, it has become a habit of Orientalist apologists of Western imperialism to offer reductive historical and theological explanations of Sunni-Shi’a conflict in the Middle East region in order to cover up the blowback of ill-conceived Western military interventions and proxy wars that have ...

Over a third of the jihadists in Syria are foreign mercenaries, who include Russian nationals, Vladimir Putin told Oliver Stone, adding that, while Russia wants to work with the US in the fight against Islamic State, it won’t compromise its own security.Commenting on Russia’s military ...

Arab countries when speaking publicly on the subject, with the exception of Egypt and Jordan which have peace deals with Israel and maintain diplomatic relations.Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar do not have diplomatic relations with Israel — although that does not ...

DUBAI: A municipal building was set ablaze overnight in Sunni-ruled Bahrain, the government said on Monday, as fresh violence erupted over the executions of three Shias convicted of a deadly bomb attack on police.Iran threats Bahrain of armed resistance on removing Shia cleric’s citizenshipThe ...

BAGHDAD: Suicide bombing in a soccer stadium in Southern Baghdad killed at least 26 people and injured 71. The suicide bomber blew himself up during a football match in the city of Iskanderiah which is 30 miles away from Baghdad. No one claimed the responsibility yet but an ISIS affiliated new ...