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At least eight people have been martyred in four car bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.   According to an Interior Ministry source the car bomb explosions on Wednesday also left 36 people injured. A car bomb went off…

Shia Turkmen families from Tal Afar in Northern Iraq have been fleeing south to the holy city of Najaf to escape so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group’s onslaught in the north of the country.  …

Religious Preaching Unit of the Imam Hussein holy shrine holds advanced courses in Quran recitation and Tajweed   The Feminine Religious Preaching Unit of the Imam Hussein holy shrine has held its fourth Quran Tafseer course for the school teachers…

Mohammed, the name of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his progeny, has become the most popular name for new-born babies in England and Wales in 2013.   Figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed that the name…

A Quranic official at the University of Kufa, in Holy Najaf, said that the university plans to set up a Quran teaching centre.   Hadi Hanoun al-Arezi, head of the university’s Supreme Council for Quranic Activities, said the centre will…

British Sunni willing to join ISIL.   The Metropolitan Police commissioner in the UL has warned that hundreds of British extremists who have travelled to Iraq and Syria could return to the UK if Takfirigroups start to lose the battles…

Takfiri terrorists destroy Shias’ mosque and Husseiniya in Diyala province   Takfiri terrorists of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have destroyed a mosque belonging to Shia Muslims in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad. According to…

A bomb exploded on Friday near a mosque in Karbala without causing injuries.    A security source said that a bomb exploded near Jenan al-Na’im mosque south of Karbala, and the explosion caused some damage to the nearby vehicles, without…

Imam Ali holy shrine sends urgent aid to Amirli district of Shia majority. The Imam Ali holy shrine has send urgent food and water supplies to the residents of Amrili district after receiving distress calls from the people of this…

The Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource which shows the Arabic grammar, syntax and morphology for each word in the Holy Quran. It is part of a PhD research project into Arabic language computing at the University of Leeds.…