The Lebanese House Speaker Nabih Berri told Assafir daily that he does not want to control the cabinet, but at the same time he refuses to be controlled by anyone. He also wondered how some political parties who have a limited parliamentary representation are being granted more ministerial portfolios than ...
Millions of black-clad Shiite Muslims streamed through the holy shrine of Imam Hussein bin Ali bin Abi Taleb (AS) in the Iraqi city of Karbala Monday in spite of terrorist threats by the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri group. Nusayyef al-Khattabi, who heads the Karbala ...
