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Residents of Syria's al-Raqa and Tal Abyad describe difficulties and tensions in the area since Jabhat al-Nusra moved in.
A day after at least 140 people were killed across Syria, including 58 civilians, violence continued afresh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Right...
Violence in Iraq on Saturday (May 18th) killed at least seven people, a day after at least 51 people were killed across the country, police and med...
The Iraqi Justice Ministry on Saturday (May 18th) launched a special programme to rehabilitate al-Qaeda inmates before their release from prison....
Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and four others were wounded -- one seriously -- on Saturday (May 18th) in a rocket attack in southern Mosul, Iraq...
The presidency of Yemen's national dialogue conference on Saturday (May 18th) suspended the sessions of the conference's working groups for one day...
Iraqi police have disabled three cars rigged with bombs in different areas across Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Saturday (May 18th)....
Iraqi security forces have arrested six wanted men, two of whom are suspected of involvement in attacks on a football stadium in 2009 that killed n...
Kuwait's Al-Rahma Charity is providing urgent humanitarian aid to hundreds of displaced Syrian families in Lebanon in a bid to alleviate their suff...
The second annual "Forum for Media Freedom Defenders in the Arab World" kicked off Saturday (May 18th) in Amman....
Saudi Raha Moharrak, 25, has reached the summit of Everest, the BBC reported Saturday (May 18th)....
More than 1.5 million Syrians have fled their homeland, the UN Refugee Agency said Friday (May 17th)....
A series of explosions killed and injured dozens of people across Iraq on Friday (May 17th), Iraqi officials said....
Yemeni security forces have thwarted an attack on a main oil pipeline in Marib province and identified two of those involved in the attempt, the Ye...
Egyptian police closed the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Friday (May 17th) in protest at the kidnapping of colleagues in the Sinai peninsula, ...
A number of mosque preachers on Friday (May 17th) urged citizens across Iraq to make sure their zakat payments reach those who really deserve them ...
The Iraqi police said Friday (May 17th) it foiled an attack targeting a market that sells birds in Ninawa province....
If these terrorists did not respect worshipers when they conducted a Dawn prayer, they should have respected the mosque as one of the worship places of Allah. It has never been expected that these ...وليد
![A torn poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad hangs in the northern Syrian city of al-Raqa on March 5th following days of fierce fighting. [Mohammad al-Hussein/AFP]](/shared/images/2013/04/19/Syria-assad-raqaa-90_58.jpg)
![An Iraqi man pulls a cart up a hill through Baghdad traffic. [Karim Sahib/AFP]](http://mawtani.al-shorfa.com/shared/images/2013/05/17/iraq-traffic-jam-90_58.jpg)
![Iraqi students of all levels are preparing for their final exams. [Saif Ahmed/Mawtani]](http://mawtani.al-shorfa.com/shared/images/2013/05/17/iraq-students-tests-90_58.jpg)
![Iraqi security forces learned about this weapons cache from members of an 'Islamic State of Iraq' cell. [Saif Ahmed/Mawtani]](http://mawtani.al-shorfa.com/shared/images/2013/05/16/iraq-anbar-cache-90_58.jpg)
![The dome of Imam al-Hadi shrine in Samarra was badly damaged in 2006 in an attack led by an al-Qaeda affiliate, according to Mowaffak al-Rubaie, the national security advisor at the time. [Dia Hamid/AFP]](http://mawtani.al-shorfa.com/shared/images/2013/05/15/Iraq-shrine-samarra-90_58.jpg)
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If these terrorists did not respect worshipers when they conducted a Dawn prayer, they should have respected the mosque as one of the worship places of Allah. It has never been expected that these ...وليد