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A human rights watchdog called on Morocco on Friday not to extradite a Shi’ite Muslim to his homeland of Saudi Arabia, citing fears he could face torture and an unfair trial there. Hassan Al Rabea, who has been in Morocco…

The international organization ‘Shia Rights Watch’ (SRW) has expressed its deep concern about the dangers that threaten all humanity in the event of the spread of hate speech and fanaticism, stressing its aims on defending the rights of the Shias…

The Shia Hazara community continued its sit-in against the target killing of its members on second day in DI Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) on Thursday, the Tribunal reported. The participants in the sit-in spent the night on road despite…

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…