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The following article first published ten years in June 2004 pertains to Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the legendary leader and founder of Al Qaeda in Iraq. The name of this mysterious jihadist organization was later renamed the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and in 2013 it became the Islamic State of …

Source : Websites, edited by ABNA Blast in passenger van kills three Shi’ite Muslims in Gilgit ISLAMABAD: At least three people were martyred and nine others injured on Thursday when a roadside bomb hit a passenger van near Gilgit town in northern Pakistan, officials said. “The incident occurred near Haramosh …

Source : The Scientific Committee of the International Conference of Mahdism Doctrine 1. A new age is dawning.A new age is dawning, conventionally referred to as the “post-post-bipolar age”, the age of non-distance, the age of revolutions and new ideologies, the age of globalisation, the age of a globalised and westernised …

America’s war on Islamic militants is not aimed at helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stay in power,” US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted Friday.The top US diplomat sought to dispel wariness that the “laser focus” on fighting ISIL terrorists has distracted from efforts to end the three-year global war …

Children in the Gaza Strip are paying the price of the latest Israeli war on the coastal enclave, as many have been left orphaned by the brutal military aggression, Press TV reports.The Israeli regime launched its war on Gaza on July 8 and later expanded its military campaign with a …

The Saudi monarch was referring to the terror organization known as the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), which has gained notoriety for its barbaric campaign of violence in Syria and Iraq, including videoed beheadings of victims and mass shootings of prisoners.King Abdullah warned that unless Western countries …

Leading Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was arrested over his anti-regime twitter remarks.Rajab, who heads the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), had just returned to the country after an advocacy tour abroad.He had served two years in prison for organizing anti-government protests before being released in May.The Saudi-backed …

Crescent International is a publication of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT), Toronto, Canada.While claiming to be carrying the banner of ‘Sunni’ Islam, the Saudi regime has visceral hatred for any genuine expression of Islam. We examine why.What explains the Saudi regime’s visceral hatred of Islamic movements struggling to …

Recent territorial gains in Iraq by the ISIL, the self-proclaimed Islamic State also known as ISIS or DAESH, allegedly without foreknowledge of the western powers, beg the question of who is behind the al-Qa’ida alumnus.Pundits are quick to accuse Saudi Arabia, but other informed sources point to Qatar and Turkey …

An image posted by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) shows insurgents leading away captured Iraqi soldiers, who were later massacred. What began in Syria during the spring of 2011 as a simple uprising by a few so-called rebels has blossomed into a brazen and bloody …