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The General Secretariat of al-Kadhumain Holy Shrine has reopened the doors of the holy shrine to pilgrims after a one-year closure due to Covid-19.The holy shrine in Kadhumiya, northern Baghdad, is the resting place of the 7th and 9th Imams,…

The last year ended with nation-wide protests against a series of controversial citizenship amendment laws passed by the government of India in December. And according to experts, the country has since become a “dangerous and violent space for Muslim minorities”.Throughout…

A deportation center in Riyadh is holding hundreds of mostly Ethiopian migrant workers in conditions so degrading that they amount to ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. Detainees alleged to Human Rights Watch that they are held in extremely overcrowded…

A member of the French Parliament on Wednesday accused Emmanuel Macron’s government of covering up crimes committed by the UAE at a factory in Yemen used as a secret prison.“How long will you continue to lie?” lawmaker Clementine Autain asked…

At least 13 Afghan policemen were killed when Taliban militants attacked two checkpoints overnight in the north of the country, officials said Wednesday.The militants stormed and briefly held the checkpoints on the outskirts of Pule Khumri, capital of northern Baghlan…

Bahrain’s King Hamad issued a royal decree, pardoning 169 prisoners, who have served part of their jail terms for various reasons, without including prisoners of conscience and political prisoners.The pardon was announced on the occasion of Bahrain’s National Day commemorating…

A mosque came under an attack in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.A man wearing a mask hurled stones at the Hagia Sophia Mosque, an official said.There was no damage to the place of worship other than broken windows, Gaza Dejric added.The official…

UAE’s President has instructed the prayers for rain to be performed this Friday, it was announced.The prayers for rain, known in Arabic as Salaat Al Istisqaa, will be carried out at mosques and prayer sites across the nation on December…

Smugglers mercilessly beat rake-thin refugees crowded onto a fishing boat, in a video obtained by AFP news agency that shows rarely seen images from the front lines of the Rohingya trafficking network.Filmed on a mobile phone by a smuggler who…

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Sunday warned that 5 million Yemenis “will likely be living just one step away from famine in the upcoming year.”The UN organization said in a brief statement posted on its official Twitter…