About 160 people have been killed and over 200 others injured in the French capital Paris in thedeadliest attacks to hit the country since the Second World War. According to French media on Friday night, nearly 120 people, who had been held hostage by gunmen at the Bataclan concert hall in centralParis, were killed. Witnesses say the terrorists ...

[caption id="attachment_147004" align="alignright" width="136"] A sign which reads in French,''We are Charlie. Freedom of Expression'' is placed on flowers as people continue to pay tribute to the shooting victims in front of the offices of the weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris January 10, 2015.CREDIT: REUTERS/PASCAL ROSSIGNOL[/caption] (Reuters) ...

The Prime Minister says that anyone opposing a letter sent to UK mosques after the Paris terror attacks "really has a problem". David Cameron has rejected criticism by some Muslims of a letter sent to mosques in England urging them to do more to root out extremists and prevent young people being radicalised. The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) ...

Tehran, Jan 10, IRNA Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said what is happening in France now is the result of wests behavior in Syria. He made the remarks in his speech to the closing ceremony of the 28th International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran on Friday. He said the incidents in France in the past few days - which he described as an absolutely ...

Tehran, Jan 15, IRNA -- Turkeys Deputy PM Yalcin Akdogan said Monday that citizens of Muslim countries were the primary victims following last weeks attacks in France, which left 17 people dead. There are victims of terror seen every day, every week, every month in the Muslim world, said Akdogan in a television program on Monday night, Anadolu Agency ...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has likened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the gunmen in the recent attacks in the French capital of Paris, which left 17 people dead. Netanyahu has committed crimes against humanity the same like those terrorists who carried out the Paris massacre, Davutoglu said on Thursday in a televised briefing ...

GENEVA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed concern Wednesday about extremely dangerous anti-Muslim demonstrations taking place in Europe and called for peoples beliefs to be respected in the wake of last weeks massacre at the offices of a Paris newspaper. Zarif spoke to reporters before he and U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Although the terrorist attack in Paris was painful, it wasnt more horrible than the massacre of over 500 Palestinian children in Gaza, but the latter never received such a wide condemnation by the European governments, Commander of Irans Basij (volunteer) Force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi complained. Addressing a gathering ...

[caption id="attachment_145160" align="alignright" width="129"] FILE - In this April 23, 2013 file photo, a suspected Yemeni al-Qaida militant, center, holds an Islamist banner as he stands behind bars during a court hearing in state security court in Sanaa, Yemen. A top leader of Yemen's al-Qaida branch has claimed responsibility for last week's attack ...

[caption id="attachment_144983" align="alignright" width="171"] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the kosher supermarket in Paris where four hostages were killed on Friday in Paris, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Photo by AP[/caption] Benjamin Netanyahu finds out he missed the bus: An uncomfortable look at the prime ministers embarrassing trip to France....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of Irans Basij (volunteer) Force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi blasted the masterminds of the recent terrorist attack in Paris, and said the attack was aimed at stopping the growing tides of Islam-seeking in Europe. "Europe which is faced with an Islam-seeking wave has no way but committing crimes in Paris under the ...

[caption id="attachment_144773" align="alignright" width="199"] Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech at the Grand Synagogue in Paris / Getty Images[/caption] Tehran, Jan 12, IRNA -- French President Francois Hollande has reportedly left a memorial session in a Paris synagogue when the visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium ...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu praised the rally against terror in Paris, adding that he would expect a similar reaction to attacks on Muslims and Islamophobia. MOSCOW, January 12 (Sputnik) Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu praised the extraordinary rally againstterror inParis asa strong message tothe world, adding he would expect ...

Berlin, Jan 12, IRNA German Interior Minister Thomas de Mariziere said extremism and religious terrorism are different from Islam and making a distinction between them is currently a compelling need. Referring to recent terrorist attacks in Paris and the wave of Islamophobia in Western media, the minister said the terrorist actions in Paris were ...

[caption id="attachment_144575" align="alignright" width="168"] World leaders participate in a unity march in Paris, France, January 11, 2014.[/caption] Press freedom campaigners have condemned the presence at a mass unity rally in Paris of certain world leaders who hold poor human rights and free press records in their own countries. Reporters Without ...

Absence sought as part of attempt to keep Israeli-Palestinian conflict out of European show of unity; After Netanyahu insisted on coming, French made it clear Abbas would be invited as well. French President Francois Hollande conveyed a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend asking him not to come to Paris to take part in the ...

Rome, Jan 11, IRNA Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, on Sunday hailed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for condemning terrorism and violence in France. The daily quoted President Rouhani as saying that violence and terrorism either in the Middle East or in Europe and the US is condemned and that the Islamic Republic of Iran condemns anybody supporting ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Double standards in fight against terror must end, says Iran foreign minister Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says there should be an end to the double-standard policies adopted by certain countries with regard to the issue of terrorism. Iran capable of building,...

[caption id="attachment_144274" align="alignright" width="159"] People march during a rally in the French city of Nice to protest terrorism, January 10, 2015. (AFP photo)[/caption] Leaders from the four corners of the world are set to join a mass demonstration in France in solidarity with the victims of the recent attacks in the country. Paris is ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- French President Francois Hollande rejected any links between the perpetrators of the recent terror attacks around the capital Paris with Islam. In a televised address, the French leader called for vigilance and unity in the face of the shocking acts of violence in the European country and said those behind the Paris assaults were fanatics ...