The fatwa issued by Ayatollah Sistani on this day nine years ago marked a significant event in the region’s political history and a turning point in the fight against and defeat of Daesh in Iraq.

The fatwa against Salman Rushdie pertained to a specific and not a general ruling, implying that it was only applicable to Rushdie in order to set a precedent. 

Some 200 clerics in Mauritania declare a religious ban on normalization of relation with the Israeli regime.

Iraqi protesters denounce Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq al-Awsat over an offensive cartoon depicting the country’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

Iraqi forces have arrested an overweight Daesh ‘mufti’ in Mosul who advocated enslaving, raping, torturing and ethnic cleansing.

More than 1,800 Pakistani clerics unite to issue a fatwa against acts of terror.