Top Shiite cleric in Iraq, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Sistani, urged the country’s leader to fight terror rather than challenging results of parliamentary elections held in May. In a Friday prayers sermon delivered by a representative, Ayatollah Sistani said Iraq’s leaders should focus on defeating ISIL Takfiri terrorist group and not ...
The next Astana format meeting on the crisis in Syria will be held in Sochi on July 30-31, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said Friday. “It will be held in the last two days of July, that has essentially been agreed, and in the format that we used before, ...
