Lebanese Parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, has rejected speculations that Imam Musa Sadr, aprominent Shia clericwho went missing with two companions nearly 40 years ago in Libya, is dead, saying there is still no evidence proving the death. "Do not try me in the imams case, not now and not later. Our stance will remain the same, the imams case is ...

Monday, March 03, 2014 - For the Iran, the most important question is whether to dismantle its nuclearinstallations, the way then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi did in December 2003. Owing to prolonged economic and military sanctions, Gaddafi unilaterallyannouncedon December 19, 2003, that, Libya would voluntarily eliminate all materials, equipment ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Russia asked the UN Security Council to look into the dangers posed by a badly-guarded stockpile of yellowcake uranium in the Libyan Desert. Recent reports have said that Al-Qaeda is interested in the supply as a potential nuclear weapon component. I have spoken with UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon about the issue, and asked ...

Four people have been killed in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, where violence remains rampant despite government efforts to enforce law and order. Two people were killed and five others wounded late on Monday when armed men opened fire on a protest camp outside a hotel, security sources said on Tuesday. The tent was set up by tribesmen demanding ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Muammar Gaddafi's former military barracks and compound in Tripoli will be converted into a public park, the Libyan government announced. Ikram Bash Imam, the country's tourism minister, said on Saturday that the government has embarked on "preliminary works" in the development of the park in the infamous complex of Bab al-Azizya,...

Gunmen have shot and killed a top Libyan military commander in the volatile eastern city of Benghazi, security sources say. Local security officials say Ahmed al-Bar-Ghathi was shot by assailants while he was leaving home to attend Friday prayers. Rescue workers and medics say he was taken to a hospital but succumbed to his injuries. Benghazi ...

SHAFAQNA (International Shia News Association) - For the past 25 years Husam al-Beishi has run a tropical fish shop on Tripolis Al Rashid Street with a sideline in guns. This year he stopped sellingthe fish.People just want the guns, he said, as pistol shots crackled outside from customers testing his wares into the sky over the stalls selling Arab ...

The abduction of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan shows that the North African country is on the verge of becoming a failed state, a political commentator says. Johnny Miller, who is a freelance journalist based in London, made the remarks during an interview withPress TVon Friday, a day after armed militants abducted Zeidan from a hotel in the capital ...

[caption id="attachment_21012" align="alignright" width="180"] Iran"s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian[/caption] An Iranian deputy Foreign Minister has voiced Tehrans readiness to assist the fact-finding committee pursuing the fate of Lebanese Shia leader Imam Moussa al-Sadr. Libyan officials have not provided any reliable evidence ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of deposed Libya leader Muammar Gaddafi, may join 37 former regime members in a pre-trial session in Tripoli over charges of murder and crimes allegedly committed during 2011 civil war, according to the country's top prosecutor. Abdel-Qader Radwan, the prosecutor general, said that Saif al-Islam ...

Musa al-Sadr, Iranian-Lebanese philosopher and religious leader who was kidnapped during his visit to Libya and meeting Gaddafi, will be honored in a ceremony in Tehran on Tuesday evening. Foreign ambassadors to Tehran and some Iranian political figures will participate in this ceremony.Ayatollah Arakiand a member of presidential board of LebaneseAmelmovement,...

WASHINGTON President Obamas aides were stunned at what their boss had to say when he summoned them to the Oval Office on Friday at 7 p.m., on the eve of what they believed could be a weekend when American missiles streaked again across the Middle East. President Obama on Saturday presented his most fervent case yet that Syria needed to be punished ...

At least two people have been killed and four others injured in clashes between Libyan military and an armed group in the northern city of Sirte. The clashes erupted on Monday in the coastal city, the official LANA news agency reported. Benghazi, Libya's second largest city, has also seen a wave of violence in recent days. Earlier on Monday,...

SHAFAQNA (International Shia News Association) More than 1,000 detainees have escaped from a prison in eastern Libya, security forces told AP. It comes as hundreds of Libyans protest against the killing of a prominent anti-Brotherhood activist, blaming Islamists for his death. The mass jailbreak occurred at Koyfiya prison in the eastern city of Benghazi ...

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been branded "capricious" and "a debt-dodger" in a British court during a hearing of a case connected to the sale of a private jet to former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Prince Alwaleed, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, was in the second day of a cross-examination before the London High Court on Tuesday....