International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) published a press statement on the raid of house of Sheikh Prof. Dr. Harith al Dhari, Secretary General of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq by the security forces of current Maliki Government. In the press statement, IUMS condemned…

Elite security forces controlled by the military office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq are operating a secret detention site in Baghdad, Human Rights Watch said today. The elite forces are also torturing detainees with impunity at a different facility in Baghdad, Human Rights Watch said. …

Mujahideen factions of the Iraqi resistance targetede so-called Green Zone, heavily fortified region, with three Katyusha missiles on Saturday evening in central Baghdad. According to a government security source : "Three Katyusha rockets felt on Saturday night, inside the Green Zone in cen…

A former soldier in the British occupation army committed suicide by hanging himself as a result of suffering from the memories of the war led by the U.S. administration against Iraq in 2003. The newspaper (The Sun) in its edition released on Friday wrote that the soldier (Peter Mercer), aged 39, w…

The UK has agreed to pay hefty settlements, to a group of former Guantanamo Bay detainees, who sued the government for alleged, complicity in their torture -- one of the first big pay-outs stemming from the US-led "War on Terror." After months of legal wrangling, Britain's intelligence ag…

The GCC countries council demanded from the United States to open an investigation into the killings and torture committed by the occupation forces against Iraqis which were exposed and published by Wikileaks site within the secret documents recently. Secretary-General of the Council  Abdel…

Al Umma Centre for Studies and Development participated in the first intellectual youth seminar organized by International Arab Centre for Solidarity and Cooperation and National Arab Forum in Beirut. The participants discussed at the symposium which was held on Friday under the title “the cu…

Scores of Afghan civilians, including women and a child, have been killed in a NATO airstrike, dealing a major blow to US-led efforts to win Afghan hearts and minds. "Initial reports indicate that NATO fired Sunday on a convoy of three vehicles ... killing at least 27 civilians, including four…

Two British occupation soldiers have been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan. According to the British Occupation Ministry of Defence said the soldiers, from 1st Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment – part of the Household Cavalry Regiment Battle Group – were caught in a…

Hamas political leader has said that his group will not recognise Israel despite new pressures and will give priority to building resistance to the Jewish state. Addressing a rally in the Syrian capital on Friday to mark the end of the Israeli attack on Gaza a year ago that killed 1,400 Palestinian…