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ISIS captures eight of its own militants in Syria before escaping to Turkey

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The terrorist group of ISIS has arrested some eight militants who were trying to desert the group and flee to Turkey, activists in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor reported on Thursday.

“The militants were arrested in the northern countryside of Deir ez-Zor before escaping the province,” media activist Muhammad al-Shami said.

“After interrogations, ISIS discovered the suspects’ plan to leave the group and cross into Turkey,” al-Shami quoted an ISIS official as saying.

Five of the arrested militants were reportedly Moroccans and the three others were Tunisians who had joined the ranks of ISIS nearly one year ago.

The source reported a state of alert among ISIS militants in Deir ez-Zor following the incident.

“ISIS has closed all exists of Deir ez-Zor and imposed a curfew on the cities and towns of the province after receiving information about a similar attempt by another group of its militants,” al-Shammi said.

The ISIS-linked Sharia Court is expected to issue a decision regarding the arrestees next week, as the interrogations continue on the case.

Dozens of ISIS members had deserted the group and crossed into Turkey in the past few months. Most of them were foreign nationals who had lately recognized the brutality of the alleged caliphate towards Muslim citizens in Syrian and Iraq.

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Austrian court jails three ISIS-linked

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Austrian authorities on Thursday jailed three Chechen nationals suspected of links with ISIS.

An Austrian court issued jail sentences to the three suspects, identified as Chechen asylum-seekers, including a man, his wife and his mother.

They have been reportedly trying to join ISIS militants in Syria.

“The 20-year-old man, his 21-year-old wife and the man’s 39-year-old mother were intercepted in Turkey.”

The suspects said that they were in Turkey seeking medical treatment for the mother, who is said to be suffering depression and panic attacks.

However, Austrian judge Daniel Rechenmacher stressed that the suspects’ arguments were “completely implausible and disproved by objective evidence material”.

On Thursday, the Chechen man was sentenced to two years in jail, his wife 19 months and the mother 21 months.

Noteworthy, the wife was reportedly pregnant when she was arrested, and has given birth in custody to a boy whom she then called Osama.

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Jack Straw condoles Iranian nation on Hajj tragedy victims’ passing away

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Former British Foreign Secretary and former head of Iran-UK parliamentary friendship group, Jack Straw, in a message condoled Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Iranian nation and the bereaved families of the September 24 Hajj tragedy victims on the passing away of their beloved ones.

The message, addressed to Iran’s Charge D’Affaires, Mohammad-Hassan Habibollahzadeh, read that he was very sorry over loss of all the people in Mina catastrophe.

He said it was a heinous event for all Iranians, including women and children.
Addressing Habibollahzadeh, Straw added that he should personally condole on loss of Foreign Ministry officials.

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Russia to continue bombing ISIS up to four months

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Russian air strikes in Syria will last for three to four months and will intensify, the head of the lower house of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee announced on Friday.

“There is always a risk of being bogged down but in Moscow, we are talking about an operation of three to four months,” Alexei Pushkov told French radio station Europe 1. He added that the strikes were going to intensify.

Pushkov was speaking a few hours before Putin was due to meet leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine in Paris for talks about Ukraine which were likely to be overshadowed by the conflict in Syria.

Pushkov said the strikes mainly targeted ISIL terrorists. “The opponents to Bashar are very close to Daesh (ISIL),” Pushkov said. US sources have claimed that the Russians hit facilities of a US-backed group, some of whose militants received training and support from the CIA.

Pushkov said the US-led coalition had “pretended” to bomb ISIL forces for a year.

“They pretended… Only 20 percent of their (U.S. led coalition) operations produced results, 80 percent of them did not lead to bombardments, they returned to base for different reasons,” Pushkov said.

Russia launched its first air strikes on Wednesday with airstrikes targeting terrorists in Hama, Idlib, Aleppo and other areas.

Pushkov said there were would be first contacts between US and Russian military officials on Friday to discuss operations in Syria.

On Friday, Pushkov also said Russian submarines with nuclear missile launching capabilities patrolling the Atlantic were a “response” to NATO’s plans to build up its operations in Eastern Europe. “These are the rules of the game…. So this is a response,” Pushkov said.

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ISIS leaders transfer their families from Mosul into Syria

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Media official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Saeed Mamouzini revealed on Wednesday, that ISIS has transferred 75 families of the leaders of the organization from Mosul into Syria.

Mamouzini said that “75 leaders from ISIS transferred their families from Mosul to Syria,” noting that “those families have been moved by 24 bus.”

Mamouzini added:”Up till now, the reasons for this decision have not been known,” indicating to ” the escape of 23 elements of the organization to Syria last week.”

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Mina incident should be reviewed by Muslim courts

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A Lebanese Sunni scholar pointed out the inadequacy of the House of Saud in managing the Hajj pilgrimage and emphasized that the Mina case should be reviewed by appropriate courts in Arab and Muslim countries.

Shaykh Abdul-Naser al-Jabri, a Lebanese Sunni scholar and the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Ummah Movement, called for an investigate into the tragic stampede in Mina which led to the deaths of 4,000 Hajj pilgrims last Thursday, and said: “In the past, we suggested to the authorities in charge of the Hajj pilgrimage that Islamic countries should participate in the Hajj and provide security for the pilgrims but unfortunately we have not heard an answer from them in this regard.”

His Eminence added that participation in the management of Hajj is necessary and added that it is common in all countries which are affected by disasters that people from all over the world help them. We have seen this in the aftermath of severe earthquakes. “Besides Saudi Arabia’s inability to deal those killed or injured in the stampede incident, they haven’t allowed other countries to investigate the incident either,” he said.

He said that no country can manage the Hajj ceremony alone, so Saudi Arabia must get help from other Islamic countries.

Shaykh al-Jabri pointed out that much larger gatherings than Hajj have been held without incident throughout the world.

The Lebanese Sunni scholar referred to the Holy Quran, wherein God Almighty states: “Cooperate in piety and Godwariness, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression” [5:2] and said Islamic countries’ participation in the hajj pilgrimage is quite natural and represents collaboration among Muslims.

His Eminence stated that Saudi Arabia is responsible for the incident in Mina and added that they cannot deny and reject responsibility for this incident and throwing the blame on the shoulders of the pilgrims is impossible because they were only seeking to perform the Hajj rituals.

Shaykh al-Jabri called for this incident to be examined by Islamic and Arab courts and organizations and stressed that it should not be raised in Western countries because we don’t expect anything else besides evil and the destruction by the West so how can we bring forward an Islamic case to them. “The case should be heard in Islamic and Arab countries and in a strong manner,” he said.

He invited Islamic scholars to support the oppressed countries such as Yemen, Syria, Libya and Iraq and said Islamic countries in the region are responsible for maintaining the blood of Muslims in the region and stated that Arab governments must stand against the arrogant powers in both the East and the West.

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Iranian flm ‘Muhammad (PBUH)’ screened for foreign media staff in Tehran

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The private screening was held on Wednesday morning by the Foreign Media Department of Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance at Farhang Movie Theater in northern Tehran.

The screening session was attended by around 120 foreign correspondents and media representatives including those of France’s Euronews and AFP (Agence France-Presse), Turkey’ Anadolu Agency, Japan’s NHK, the United States’ Wall Street Journal newspaper, Qatar’s Al Jazeera TV, and Spain’s EFE news agency.

A number of correspondents from other media outlets including Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen, Palestine Today, China’s Phoenix, Lebanon’s al-Manar and Asia, Kuwait news agency, and China’s Wenhui Daily also watched the movie.

Ambassadors and representatives of several countries including Tunisia, Kenya, Algeria, Afghanistan, Indonesia, the Azerbaijan Republic, Comoros, and Malaysia, among others, were also in attendance.

The guests watched the movie with simultaneous Arabic and English translation along with the film’s director Majidi and Iranian Deputy Culture Minister for Press and Information Hossein Entezami.

The movie, which is the first part of Iran’s big-budget trilogy on the life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), premiered in cinemas across Iran on August 26, and attracted a large number of audiences.

A number of internationally-acclaimed professionals, including Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor and filmmaker Scott E. Anderson, three-time Oscar-winning Italian director of photography Vittorio Storaro and renowned Croat production designer Milijen Kreka Kljakovic have also collaborated in making the film.

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Ayatollah Sobhani: Mina incident cannot be forgotten

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Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani at the start of his lecture of jurisprudence in Azam mosque while pointing towards the martyrdom of thousands of pilgrims said that this incident can never be forgotten because it a tragedy of whole Muslim Ummah. This has left all Muslims in a state of mourning.

He further said that even if Al-Saud apologize for the next several years about this incident even then the tragedy will not be lessened.

Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani said that it is very tragic that still there is no report about many people that whether they have been died in this stampede or they are still alive.

He said that Allah (SWT) will take revenge from All e Saud.

He said that the house of Allah (SWT) which is the place of peace has been transformed into mass grave on the day of Eid-ul-Azha and Allah (SWT) will take revenge from these people of Al-Saud.

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Russian airstrikes hit dozen ISIS positions in Syria

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The Russian Air Force carried out more air strikes on 12 ISIL positions in Homs, Hama and Idleb as part of the agreement between Syria and Russia to eliminate the terrorists’ presence in Syria.

The Russian air operation in Syria started on Wednesday shortly after the upper house of the Russian parliament gave President Vladimir Putin the mandate to use military force in the Arab country upon President Bashar al-Assad’s request. 

Russia Today website quoted Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Maj. Igor Konashenkov as saying in a statement that “a terrorist HQ and an ammunition depot were destroyed near Idleb, as were a fortified three-level command center near Hama.”

“A direct bomb hit also completely destroyed a workshop north of Homs that produced explosives and ammunition,” he added, saying that at this workshop terrorists were stuffing vehicles with explosives, which were then used to carry out terrorist attacks.

20 air strikes targeted 8 ISIL positions in Syria on Wednesday, according to the Ministry. Those included ammunition warehouses and command and control centers.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense has described the country’s first airstrikes against the Takfiri ISIL terrorists in Syria as successful.

Eight positions of the terrorist group were targeted successfully during the raids, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Wednesday following the airstrikes.

“Ammunition depots, weapons, fuel and lubricants, accumulation of military equipment have been struck as a result of the airstrikes,” Konashenkov added.

He also said the command and control posts of Daesh in the area had been “completely destroyed,” emphasizing, however, that “the civilian infrastructure and the nearby territory was not stricken.”

In a relevant context, the Ministry announced that the Russian landing ships in the Mediterranean and Russia’s Black Sea Fleet forces will take part in the Russian air operation against terrorist organizations in Syria to protect the Russian military facilities in Tartous and Lattakia.

In the meantime, commander of a CIA-trained group told Reuters that two Russian air strikes in Syria Thursday hit a training camp operated by militant groups that received military training organized by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Hassan Haj Ali, head of the Liwa Suqour al-Jabal terrorist group, said the camp in Idleb province was struck by around 20 missiles in two separate sorties.

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Saudi rescue teams left Mina wounded to die suffering: Ayatollah Araki

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“Saudis were at least expected to deliver drinking water to the wounded pilgrims,” Ayatollah Araki said, speaking to the official news website of the Center of Supervision on Mosques Affairs.

His eminence noted that hundreds died of thirst because, according to him, “no rescue helicopter was sent to simply supply dying bodies with water.”

Ayatollah Araki accused Saudi Police and Rescue teams of negligent, adding: “Saudi rescue teams left the wounded pilgrims to die suffering.”

He also demanded the international organizations to investigate the tragic incident.

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