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Iraqi security forces, in collaboration with Kurdish Asayish units, arrested 21 suspected members of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Sulaimani province, Rudaw news agency reported yesterday. The arrests were made following judicial approvals, targeting individuals accused of terrorism. Among those…

Afghan female teachers’ career was abruptly halted when the Taliban banned girls’ education nearly three years ago, forcing them out of their classrooms. When secondary schools for girls were suspended in September 2021, about a month after the Taliban took…

Iraq has resumed rice cultivation after a two-year hiatus due to water shortages and is testing a water-efficient strain of rice, as reported by Reuters. According to officials, the country has allocated 150 square kilometers (58 square miles) for rice…

Scientists at the Dynamic Legged Systems unit at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa have developed a robot called “VERO” which can clean up cigarette butts from beaches and other environments. The VERO robot autonomously locates and collects cigarette…

According to Pakistani officials, unidentified gunmen blew up a government girls’ school in a tribal area of Pakistan’s troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, destroying seven rooms of the school, where 255 girls study, with no casualties recorded. Minister of…

Saudi Arabia has seen a sharp increase in the number of executions during the first half of 2024, sparking widespread criticism from human rights organizations. Despite the Saudi government’s pledges to improve human rights conditions, reports indicate a nearly 42%…

Iraqi security forces and specialized teams continue their efforts to recover the bodies of more than 100 individuals executed by ISIS, and were buried in a mass grave in the Saqlawiyah district near Fallujah in Anbar province. This mass grave…

The global humanitarian organization “Who is Hussain?” stated that the collective effort to improve the living, social, and educational standards of human communities is a work planted by Imam Hussain, peace be upon him, through his eternal uprising in the…

The Husseiniya of the Zainabiya Hawza in Syria held mourning sessions to commemorate the tragic martyrdom of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him. The Hawza, one of the centres affiliated to Grand Ayatollah Shirazi in the Syrian capital, Damascus, started…

The Shia community in Leicester, UK, organized a Husseini mourning procession to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, on the 10th of Muharram. This nourning procession was organized by the Leicester Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Community…