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Two of Al-Azhar’s Tajik students have been recently arrested for trying to join ISIS   At least 300 students of Egypt’s Al-Azhar University are associated to the IS terrorist group.  It had been reported earlier that IS seeks to recruit…

The source said five more shells fell in the neighborhoods of al-Qasa’a, Bab Touma, al-Qaimariye, and al-Hamidiye   Five civilians were killed and dozens were injured, some of them women and children, in a series of terrorist mortar attacks on…

His eminence also received pilgrims from Iraq, Africa and other Islamic countries   The Eminent Hujatul Islam Sayed Hussein Shirazi, son of the Eminent Grand Ayatollah Sayed Sadiq Husseini Shirazi, may Allah prolong his life, arrived in Holy Medina. Officials…

Dressed in the white shrouds worn by pilgrims and brandishing assault rifles   Hundreds of Yemenis protested Friday in Sanaa over claims that Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s holiest sites and host to the hajj, was denying Yemenis the right…

At least 107 people are killed as a crane falls on Hajj pilgrims in the Grand Mosque of Mecca   At least 107 people are killed as a crane falls on Hajj pilgrims in the Grand Mosque of Mecca, Saudi…

Within exchanged visits among religious expeditions in the holy city of Medina   Within exchanged visits among religious expeditions in the holy city of Medina, hajj expedition of the Eminent Grand Ayatollah Sayed Shirazi, may Allah prolong his life, has…

Lessons will be given every day at 10 o’clock local time   Upper-level course of jurisprudence of the Eminent Grand Ayatollah Sayed Sadiq Husseini Shirazi, my Allah prolong his life has kicked off today at Zainul Abdin Mosque, peace be…

Saudi authorities had distributed lists containing a sectarian question which is: Are you Shia   Shia pilgrims who enter Saudi Arabia for performing annual Hajj rituals are subject to unjustified inspections and insults of extremist elements at the kingdom’s airports…

The expedition also received delegations of high-ranking people from the holy cities of Karbala and Qom   Hajj expedition of the Eminent Grand Ayatollah Sayed Sadiq Husseini Shirazi, may Allah prolong his life, in the holy city of Medina, has…

The army said in a statement that the seizure was made on Tuesday in an area located between the towns   Nigerian military says it has arrested a number of people in the country’s embattled northeastern state of Yobe, who…