AP Iraqs top Shia cleric says more than 13 million have gathered in the holy city of Karbala to mark Arbaeen, the annual commemoration marking the end of the mourning period for the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammads grandson and a central figure in Shia Islam. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani praised Iraqi security forces Friday for ...

Press TV - Iraqs most senior Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has called on the government to protect the Kurdish population in the north amid rising tensions between Baghdad and Iraqs secessionist Kurds. Sistanis call was issued at the Friday prayer in the holy city of Karbala by one of his representatives, Reuters reported. According ...

Alwaght - ISIS terrorist groups emergence in Iraq in 2014 was highly sweeping and surprising. The fundamentalist organization after seizing vast territories in Syria headed to the Iraqi territories for more ground seizures that could facilitate realization of plans for founding the so-called caliphate, or Islamic state. ISIS ground captures ...

IRNA Majlis (Parliament) speaker Ali Larijani, in a meeting with Head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), said Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has been playing a crucial role in Mosul liberation. In his Tuesday meeting with ISCI head Ammar Hakim, Larijani congratulated Iraqi government and people on defeating Takfiri terrorists in the city ...

IRNA - Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in a message expressed condolences on the demise of the late Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who passed away at 82 on Sunday. In his message addressed to the late Ayatollah Rafsanjani's brother Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Sistani condoled his family members on the ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 29 (MNA) Head of Parliament National Security Commission Boroujerdi said Americans and Saudis have tried to enunciate the war in Iraq as religious though Sheikh Sistani thwarted the plot. Visiting Sheikh Akram al-Kaabi, leader ofHarakat al-Nujaba, met and talked with Head of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran ...

Alwaght- Iraqs Public Mobilization Forces (PMF) take their genuine legitimacy from the fatwa issued by top Iraqi Shia cleric Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani. The fatwa makes people religiously obliged to help the army and other parts of armed forces to protect the holy places and confront the terrorism that is hitting the country. The Iraqi Prime ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force said Iran will take action against terrorist groups in Iraq only if the countrys Marja (religious leadership) deems it necessary. We will act (against the terrorists in Iraq) when Iraqs ruling Marja (says there is) a political and international need, Major ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iraqs top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali al-Sistani appreciated the efforts made by Tehran Municipality to help serve millions of pilgrims flocking to Karbala for Arbaeen. In a meeting with Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, the senior cleric added that he keeps in his prayers all Iranians assisting in the organization ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali al-Sistani condoled with the people of Kuwait over a Friday terrorist attack that left dozens of worshippers at a mosque in Kuwait city killed or injured. Ayatollah Sistani addressed Kuwaiti people in a statement, saying, "We received with grief news about the criminal attack which ...