Scores of Kurdish Yazidi women and children are now in Fallujah under ISIS captivity, and they need protection as the Fallujah operation continues, warns a Kurdish official. Hussein Kuro, Head of the Directorate of Yazidi Abductees Affairs in Dohuk province of the Kurdistan Region, said that 150 to 200 …
Read More »Sayyed Nasrallah: Axis of Resistance to Triumph, Palestine Banner to Be Raised again
Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, stressed that the axis of Resistance won’t be defeated and will keep on supporting Palestine, whose banner will be raised again. In a popular ceremony in the Bekaa town of Nabi Sheet on the occasion of “Resistance Liberation Day,” Sayyed Nasrallah stressed …
Read More »A sublime man will come and save humanity from oppression, injustic
And We have already written in the book [of Psalms] after the [previous] mention [in the Torah] that the Earth is inherited by My righteous servants.” (Holy Quran: 21, 105) Witnessing that the aggressors of the world plunder and violate the rights of people, humanity should not think …
Read More »British Muslim women face ‘double bind’ of gender and religious discrimination
A study has found that Muslim women face a double bind of religious and gender discrimination in the British society, which subjects them to harassment and abuse. Britain’s Faith Matter group and the European Network Against Racism conducted a research about the impact of Islamophobia on Muslim women across …
Read More »US Senate passes bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia
The US Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would allow victims of the 9/11 terror attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, defying vocal opposition from the White House.
Read More »Israeli Forces Kidnap Six Palestinians in West Bank, Detain Many School Children
Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Thursday, several Palestinian cities and towns in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped six Palestinians. The soldiers also attacked schoolchildren, near Bethlehem, and detained them.
Read More »Bahrainis rally to demand release of Sheikh Ali Salman
Demonstrators in Bahrain have taken to the streets to express solidarity with political prisoners and jailed activists, in particular prominent opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman. In Abu Saiba, the protesters demanded the release of the 49-year-old secretary of the main opposition al-Wefaq and other political prisoners.
Read More »Fatima Bhutto: Shia Muslims have overtaken Christians, Hindus as targets
Pakistan is a country of ghosts. They are everywhere, the victims and the perpetrators both. On Wednesday morning, six gunmen wearing police uniforms stopped an Al Azhar Garden bus carrying 60 Ismaili Muslims in Karachi. The bus picked up Ismailies (Shia Muslims) from the housing society dedicated to their community …
Read More »Islamic Movement in Nigeria issued statement: Hearing on Sheikh Zakzaky’s court case begins
The first court hearing on the kidnapping and maltreatment of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), will commence on May 18, 2016 at the Federal High Court in Kaduna State.
Read More »Canadian ambassador in Iraq: Imam Ali holy shrine is a place widely respected
Bruno Sakumani, the Canadian Ambassador in Iraq and Jordan, and his accompanying delegation visited the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali (PBUH) as the Deputy Secretary-General welcomed them. He saw the historical landmarks in the Shrine. The officials of the Internal Relations Department that belongs to the Public Relations Department accompanied …
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