The Head of the UN Envoy in Iraq Yan Kubish visits Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani, the Supreme Cleric of Iraq, early in Thursday...
Read More »Strengthening Your Relations with Marja’iya: Ayatollah Khamenei to Iraq President
Ayatollah Khamenei at the meeting with the Iraq president regarded maintaining and strengthening relations with religious scholars [marja’iyah] as very important and stated: Marinating relations with the clergy, in different stages and...
Read More »Sunni Nations Are Ourselves: Ayatollah Sistani
“In one of the recent meetings of Grand Ayatollah with a crowd of Popular Mobilization Forces, one member said we have peaceful coexistence with our Sunni brothers. In reply, Ayatollah al-Sistani underlined that do use the term Sunni brothers but say they are...
Read More »Arbaeen: An Opportunity to Display a Strong Will against Tyranny and Injustice
Prophets (as) and Imams (as) are the vivid examples and leaders that true Mu’mins (believers) should practically follow and not just worship. The example of Imam Hussain (as) is the lesson of uprising against tyranny and...
Read More »Ayatollah Sistani’s Advice and Guidance to the Fighters on the Battlefields
Just as God, exalted is He, has called the believers to Jihad [against the transgressors] and made it one of the pillars of religion, and just as God has privileged the Holy Warriors over those who do not fight [in Jihad], He, noble is His name, has placed certain conditions and...
Read More »Article: ‘We the Jurists’: Islamic Constitutionalism in Iraq +PDF
This article examines the implications of incorporating Islamic law in a modern democratic constitutional context. The new Iraqi constitution's designation of Islamic law as "a source of law" placed the issue of Islamic law's role in new democracies at the...
Read More »Appreciate Ayatollah Sistani and Listen to His Advices: Ayatollah Khamenei
Appreciate Ayatollah Sistani and Listen to His Advices, said grand ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei to a Group of members of Islamic Supreme council of Iraq...
Read More »Victory over Daesh, Defeat of Divisive Plots: Ayatollah Khamenei
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the victory over the Daesh terrorist group in Iraq and Syria is tantamount to the defeat of plots to sow division and wage a civil war in the...
Read More »Ayatollah Sistani Urges Iraq’s Government to Protects Kurds
Iraq’s most senior Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has called on the government to protect the Kurdish population in the north amid rising tensions between Baghdad and Iraq’s secessionist Kurds...
Read More »Iraqis Foil IS Plot to Attack Ayatollah Sistani’s House
The Iraqi intelligence service thwarted a plot by the IS militant group to carry out attacks against Shiite shrines and the house of the most revered spiritual Shiite leader in Iraq, an...
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