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 US-led coalition airlifted two high-ranking commanders of the ISIL terror organization from a region in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor, where Iraqi pro-government fighters are tightening the noose around the extremists, to a safe sanctuary. Local source, requesting anonymity, told Syria’s official news agency SANA that two US-led ...