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A guard has been killed in an attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in Iran, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says, adding that it will evacuate its diplomatic staff. “The attacker broke through the guard post, killing the head of security…

The United States military has carried out an operation that killed a senior ISIL (ISIS) leader in northern Somalia, US officials said. A statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday said Bilal al-Sudani, “key facilitator for ISIS’s global…

People displaced by the growing climate disasters in Bangladesh’s coastal region are vulnerable to human trafficking, a latest UN report said. The Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2022 was launched in Dhaka, with officials from the United Nations Office…

The Indian electronic newspaper “Awaz Voice” published an editorial, in which it lauded one of the oldest and largest Islamic Hussainiyas in India, describing it as an “icon” of national unity among people of different religious and ethnic backgrounds.” The…

The Husseiniya and Mosque of Ale Yasin in Sydney, Australia, which is affiliated to the Supreme Religious Authority, will hold a mourning ceremony tomorrow Saturday to commemorate the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Ali al-Hadi, peace be upon him. The mourning…

Iraq has sentenced 14 people to death by hanging for their alleged role in the Daesh massacre of hundreds of army cadets in 2014, according to judicial officials. The Al-Rusafa Criminal Court in the capital Baghdad “issued death sentences against…

Almost twelve years into Syria’s devastating civil war, the country remains tattered and deeply divided, facing massive economic hardships, limited political progress and the world’s largest displacement crisis, with 70 per cent of the population now in need of humanitarian…

The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General says she opposes cutting aid to Afghanistan as a response to the Taliban’s policies towards women and girls. Amina Mohammed, the UN deputy chief, and Sima Bahous the head of UN Women, briefed senior EU…

Today, Friday, the Samarra Operations Command confirmed that the number of pilgrims to Imam Al-Hadi, Peace be upon him, has reached more than one million. Pilgrims from all over the Iraqi provinces and from foreign and neighboring countries have arrived…

Pakistan has for the past several decades been battling sectarianism. While targeted killings and sectarian acts of terrorism may currently be down, in the past the nation has witnessed grotesque massacres of innocent people carried out by sectarian death squads,…