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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched an appeal for $2.5 billion in funding to provide life-saving assistance to 39 million children in the Middle East and North Africa.In a statement, the organization indicated that the funds will be…

Human Rights Watch called for an end to arms sales to Egypt, and for aid to be directed to institutions that serve the people directly.This came in a statement by Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of the organization, commenting on the…

New Zealand security agencies were “almost exclusively” focused on the perceived threat of Islamist terrorism before a white supremacist gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year, a report into the country’s worst massacre found.The Royal Commission of Inquiry also criticized…

The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula (CDHRAP) condemned the practices of the Saudi regime in the arrest of religious scholars, as authorities raided the home and arrested a Shia cleric in Al-Ahsa.The committee affirmed…

Ahlulbayt University in the holy city of Karbala has been added to the world Round University Ranking (RUR)RUR is a world university ranking which measures performance of 1100 leading world universities by 20 indicators across 4 key missions: teaching, research,…

The Afghan Ministry of Education stated that, in the first three years, all students of Afghan elementary schools will be taught in mosques, in order to instill a “strong Islamic identity” in them.The Ministry of Education’s plan expects that students…

The Afghan Ministry of Defense announced that at least 18 militants were killed in the southern province of Kandahar.In a statement published by Xinhua, it indicated that “18 militants were killed, during the operations that covered parts of the Dand,…

The Kitabistan Publishing House made awareness of the suffering of political prisoners and detainees in Jaw Prison by publishing a book titled, “Leaked Memoirs of a Political Detainee”, which contains an account of the suffering of political detainees and the…

The International Criminal Court is looking into the mass killings in Nigeria in 2015, in which more than 300 Shia Muslims were massacred and buried in Zaria.“A petition was signed calling on the International Criminal Court to prosecute the Inspector…

The AFP news agency said that the new parliamentary elections in Kuwait came different this time, with the victory of young names under the age of 45, including 6 Shias, which sent a promising signal to young people who hope…