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The unity of Muslims is a "definite duty and a Qur'anic order", Ayatollah said adding some regional governments' decision to normalize ties with Israel is a "great sin and mistake”.
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The coordinated attack on Friday afternoon took place in the Bibi Fatima mosque, the largest mosque for Shia Muslims in the city, believed to be a Taliban stronghold.
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American forces launched a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday targeting a suicide bomber in a vehicle who was aiming to attack the airport, US officials said, as the United States nears the.
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In Iraq while a US-led coalition confined itself to airstrikes, ground victories for Iraqi forces came with photographs emerging of Soleimani leading, never wearing a flak jacket.
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Around 3,000 members of the militant Islamic State have surrendered from the group's last holdout in Syria, Kurdish-led forces said on Tuesday, as air raids and shelling resumed after a brief lull.
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The suicide bombing in Manbij, Syria which killed up to twenty people, including two U.S. soldiers, a State Department employee, and a defense contractor, adds to the tragic toll of the war in Syria.
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Turkey, despite its differences with Iran and Russia over Syria, has worked closely with both countries to find a political solution to the war through the Astana process launched last year.
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"The missile attacks were followed by bombardment ... signalling Iranian military capabilities in the region," Pan Arab sattelite channel Al-Jazeera reported.
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"We were engaged in the fight against Daesh, a distorted representation of Islam, before their attacks in Paris, London and Brussels. World will not have a better friend than Iran, if peace is what it seeks.”
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The deadly unrest, led mostly by masked men, has left Iraq facing its latest political and security crisis as the country struggles to regain its feet after the war with Daesh.
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Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran on Friday discussed a step-by-step "stabilisation" in Syria's Idlib, with a possibility of peace with some rebel groups, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after the talks.
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United Nations Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday that the UN estimates that around 10,000 "terrorists" remain in northern Idlib province and need to be defeated.
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Decrying the suffering in Syria, Pope Francis on Sunday wished Christmas peace and hope for all those scarred by war and terrorism, which he said is sowing "fear and death in the heart of many countries and cities."
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Islamic State terrorists have released a video which purportedly shows two captured Turkish soldiers being burned alive in Aleppo province, Syria.Jihadists said it was a revenge for Ankara.
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Hezbollah chief Friday said the Syrian victory in Aleppo could pave way for a political settlement to the conflict, describing the battles in Syria’s second biggest city as one of the harshest combats the region has seen
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“The liberation of Aleppo from radical elements is a very important part of the normalization in Syria, and I hope, for the region overall,” Putin said at a meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Friday.
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“I am writing from a prison in Bahrain where I expect to be tried for criticizing the bombing of Yemen and for revealing the torture committed in the prisons of my country. For that I risk 15 years in prison"
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Turkey’s Anadolu Agency said on Wednesday that prosecutors had launched an investigation into why Turkish special forces, who stormed the exhibition after Karlov’s killing, gunned down Altintas, instead of capturing him
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Egypt's police detained a man for making staged "wounded children" photos, which he was planning to use to misrepresent on social media as photos of destruction and injured people in Syria's Aleppo.
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As early as December 2013, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh expressed his reservations over the accusations against Assad that he gassed his own population.
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Russia declared on Tuesday that the four-year battle over Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, was over, as the last remaining rebel fighters agreed to turn over their territory to the Syrian government.
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A rocket attack by Islamic State militants in northern Syria caused symptoms of chemical gas in 22 Syrian rebels, state media cited the Turkish armed forces as saying on Sunday.
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Karen Armstrong, British scholar of comparative religion, finds that there is a long and inglorious tradition of distorting Islam in Europe. She criticises the notion that Islam is more violent.
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