Tehran, YJC. -- The growing wave of terrorism in Iraq comes in reaction to the failure of certain groups in the recent general elections in the country, said the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.
Jordan's state-run news agency says border guards opened fire on four vehicles trying to enter illegally from Syria after they ignored orders to stop, without saying whether anyone was killed or wounded in the incident.
President Barack Obama vowed that the United States would not be "dragged back'' into military action in Iraq as long as leaders in Baghdad refuse to reform a political system that has left the county vulnerable to a fast-moving Islamic insurgency.
The decision by Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group to join the civil war in neighboring Syria and fight along President Bashar Assad's forces was a historic and moral ``mistake'' toward the Syrian people, a leading Lebanese politician has said.
Ahmed Maiteg, Libyan Prime Minister: "Military action must be carried out within the framework of the state and the state is responsible for fighting terrorism and the state will work with the international community in fighting it, God willing. Terrorism is unacceptable in Libya, unacceptable, unacceptable."
Tehran, YJC. Iran's Head of Majlis National Security committee has led a delegation to Syria to meet the Syrian Parliament Speaker and other counterparts.
The Nusra Front, which operates as Al-Qaeda's official wing in Syria under the command of Abu Muhammad al-Golani, has been fighting against Bashar al-Assad's regime in the three-year civil war.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is expected to clinch re-election effortlessly next week, believes he has saved his regime from a brutal three-year insurgency, despite international isolation and calls for his departure.
Tehran, YJC. Hassan al-Nouri says to pursue a political solution to the Syrian crisis, he will maintain relations with Iran and Hezbollah if elected President.
Hailed as a saviour for overthrowing an Islamist president, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi can count on the vote of Egypt's Coptic Christians who view him as a bulwark against fundamentalists.
A young man who has just returned from fighting in Syria told a popular Saudi talk show on Monday he was deceived by some religious figures into travelling to the war-torn country.