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Rubio tells US diplomats to push allies to blacklist Iran's Revolutionary Guards and HezbollahThe administration of Donald Trump has directed US diplomats to urge allies to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Leban...- After Khamenei's killing, who is running Iran now?Khamenei death: The plans include the formation of an interim leadership council including the president, the head of the judiciary and a j...
- Iraq's top Shiite cleric warns against any targeting of Iran's leadershipGrand Ayatollah Ali Sistani cautioned against targeting Iran's leadership, emphasizing the potential for regional chaos stemming from the o...
- Has Iraq lowered minimum age for Muslim girls to marry to as young as nine-year-old? Here's truthIraq witnessed a massive uproar after news broke out that the Parliament had passed a law that sought to lower minimum age for Muslim girls...
- Saudi army chief to visit Iran on rare trip: state mediaA top Saudi military official will visit Tehran. The visit is on Sunday. The official will meet with Iranian officials. The meeting is to i...
- Iraq's competing Shi'ite armed factions and partiesA visit by the commander of Iran's Quds Force to Baghdad led to a pause in attacks on U.S. troops by Iran-aligned groups in Iraq. The rulin...
- Saudi foreign minister in first Iran visit since detenteSaudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan has arrived in Tehran on Saturday, marking his first visit to the country since a ...
- Pro-Taliban cleric and 17 others killed in Afghan mosque blastThe Taliban say they have improved security in the country since taking power around a year ago, but there have been several blasts in rece...
- Clashes kill 10 as Iraq's Moqtada al-Sadr quits politics, loyalists storm complexIn July, Al-Sadr's supporters broke into the parliament to deter his rivals in the Coordination Framework, an alliance of mostly Iran-align...
- Top influential conservative Saudi cleric who once headed judiciary diesAl-Luhaidan's ultraconservative views, though in line with the country's Wahhabi doctrine at the time, prompted his sacking in 2009 as head...
- Taliban say they won't work with America to contain Islamic StateTaliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen told The Associated Press there would be no cooperation with Washington on going after the incre...
- One of Iraq's most influential Shiite clerics dies at 85Al-Hakim holds the highest theological title in Shiite Islam - Ayatollah al-Uzma, which means Grand or Supreme Ayatollah.
- Iran: a powerful Shiite Muslim nation with regional reachHere is some background on a nation whose influence stretches from Iraq to Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, but which is grappling with a severe e...
- Iran cleric Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour who founded Hezbollah, survived book bomb, diesA close ally of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Mohtashamipour in the 1970s formed alliances with Muslim militant g...
- Pope Francis meets with top Shiite cleric in IraqThe historic meeting in al-Sistani's humble home was months in the making, with every detail painstakingly discussed and negotiated between...
- Number of executions reach 99 in Saudi Arabia in this yearHuman rights group Amnesty International says the kingdom carried out at least 158 death sentences last year, making it the third most prol...
- Saudi foreign minister in Pakistan for talksDays after his trip was postponed due to spiralling Saudi-Iran tensions, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister arrived here today to hold talks w...
- Pakistan expresses concerns over Saudi Arabia-Iran tensionPakistan voiced concern over the deteriorating relations between Saudi Arabi and Iran, cautioning that terrorists can take advantage of the...
- Pakistan boost security after mosque blast kills 10Pakistan boosted security on Friday after a suspected Sunni extremist opened fire in a Shiite mosque then blew himself up, killing 10 peopl...
- Zarqawi wanted a US-Iran warTerrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi planned to try and destroy the relationship between the US and its Shiite allies in Iraq and help sta...
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