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In addition to loss of lives terrorism takes a heavy economic toll on affected countries. IEP says conservative estimates of damage from terrorist activity in 2014 stands at $52.9 million, a 61 percent increase from the previous year and a 10-fold increase since 2000.Battling terrorism remains more costly than the …

Nearly 100 Muslims gathered together in prayer on Friday at the Darul Uloom Institute in Pembroke Pines city in Florida, to express that ISIS misrepresenting their faith. It is something they do every Friday, but with the recent terrorist attacks in Paris claimed by ISIS, fear is casting a cloud …

One of the citizens of great Britian, David White Fort while has embraced Islam in the office of Friday prayers leader of Kamal Shahr Hujjat al-Islam Khaliq parast and he has become Shia Muslim. David White Fort has stated about embracing Islam that he has accepted this religion because he …

Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a Tuesday meeting with Iranian students in the capital, Tehran. According to the Iranian calendar, Wednesday, Aban 13, marks the day when Iranian students took over the US embassy in Tehran, dubbed the “den of espionage,” back in 1979. It has been named the …

According to the beirut.icro.ir website, the movie’s director Majid Majidi was present at the screening session, which was held with the cooperation of the Iranian Cultural Center in Lebanon.A number of Shia and Sunni scholars, Lebanese media activists, cinema figures and artists went to the movie theater to watch the …

Akbar Muhammad, International representative for the Nation of Islam (NOI), the oldest Black Nationalist organization in the US, underlined that there is a strong connection between black people and teachings of Islam, saying Islam is “buried in the DNA” of African-Americans. “The reason that Islam is so attractive to the …

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah asserted that the Palestinians, backed by the Arabs and the Muslims, can defeat the Zionist scheme, adding that the “Greater Israel” has been eradicated by the Lebanese and the Palestinian Resistance. Delivering a speech in the context of the International Conference for the Support …

Saudi Arabia is once again in the news for its treatment of dissenters.This time it’s Raif Badawi, 31, a liberal Saudi activist that questioned religion and the governmental authorities on his Arabic language blog.Badawi was arrested in 2012 for a variety of crimes, including apostasy, criticizing government and disobeying his …

A huge crowd of Iranian people held nationwide rallies in different parts of the country to mark the “National Day of Fight against Global Arrogance”, chanting slogans against such hegemonic powers as the United States. Hundreds of thousands of Iranian people, mostly school and university students, staged demonstrations this morning …

Head of Iran Hajj and Pilgrims Organization, Saeed Ohadi, said bodies of another five Iranian pilgrims who lost their lives during the Mina tragedy have been identified. He said the bodies were identified by the Iranian medical teams in cooperation with Saudi officials through fingerprinting and DNA tests.