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A government official in Diyala said that three police officers were wounded when an explosive device exploded in the Kubba area, northeast of Baqubah.“An explosive device exploded on an agricultural road near the Kubba area, on a police patrol, resulting…

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Wednesday announced the dissolution of anti-racist group Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF).“In accordance with the instructions of the President of the Republic, the CCIF was dissolved in the Council of Ministers. For several…

The French government is preparing for an unprecedented move against the country’s mosques.France will be inspecting 76 mosques in the coming days in a “massive and unprecedented” operation against separatism, the country’s interior minister said Wednesday.Gerald Darmanin said state services…

The United Nations welcomed the progress made in the ongoing negotiations between the delegations of the Afghan government and the Taliban terrorist movement in the Qatari capital, Doha.According to a statement published by the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan…

A new place of worship is rising in the heart of Jersey City.The Muslim Federation of New Jersey, a Jersey City-based Islamic nonprofit, broke ground on a new mosque last month at its McGinley Square headquarters.The new, roughly 17,000 square-foot…

A school board in Canada has added Ashura and Ashura as religious holidays.The Waterloo Region District School Board is the first school board in Ontario, Canada that now allows its Shia teachers to take time off to perform Ziyarahs during…

Twenty-nine arms control and human rights organizations have signed a letter opposing the sale of $23 billion worth of missiles, fighter jets and drones to the United Arab Emirates and asking the U.S. Congress to block the deal.“The hope is…

On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, the International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, called to address the causes of the persistence of forms of slavery around the world.The organization stated in a statement, “As the international community commemorates…

A number of Shia youth of Iraqi origins are seeking to establish the ‘Imam Hussein Chair for Academic Studies and Researches’ in American universities, to introduce the Husseini renaissance, as they started the first steps of the project.One of the…

Shia Rights Watch released its monthly report on the most prominent human rights violations committed against Shia Muslims in November 2020.The report reviewed many of the terrorist operations carried out by terrorists against Shia Muslims, as well as the repression…