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Turkey arrests 70 Daesh-linked suspects in nationwide raids

Turkey arrests 70 Daesh-linked suspects in nationwide raids

Turkish police detained 70 suspects with ties to the militant Islamic State group in raids this week across the country, abcNews reported yesterday. According to a social-media post by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, large amounts of money, digital material and…
US, UK jointly launch airstrikes targeting Houthi locations

US, UK jointly launch airstrikes targeting Houthi locations

In response to weeks of disruptive attacks on Red Sea shipping by Yemeni Houthi forces, the United States and the United Kingdom jointly launched on Friday, January 12, military strikes against the forces’ sites in Yemen. According to the Houthi-owned…
Human Rights Watch condemns Bahraini authorities for detaining activists demanding freedom

Human Rights Watch condemns Bahraini authorities for detaining activists demanding freedom

The international non-governmental organization, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has condemned the wave of arrests that have targeted a large number of Bahraini citizens and opponents; because of their human rights activism and demands for freedom of expression. The rights organization…
Office of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi announces Saturday as first of blessed month of Rajab

Office of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi announces Saturday as first of blessed month of Rajab

The Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq Al-Husseini Al-Shirazi has announced that tomorrow, Saturday (January 13, 2024) is the first of the blessed month of Rajab for the year 1445 AH.
Taiwan plans to develop halal tourism

Taiwan plans to develop halal tourism

Taipei City was recently lauded as the “Most Promising Muslim-friendly City Destination of the Year” by the Halal In Travel Global Summit 2023. Department of Information and Tourism of Taipei City Government announced during a recent press conference that it…
Al-Shabab terrorists kill 1 person, capture 5 others from UN helicopter after its emergency landing

Al-Shabab terrorists kill 1 person, capture 5 others from UN helicopter after its emergency landing

Fighters of the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group attacked a United Nations helicopter that made an emergency landing Wednesday in territory controlled by the Sunni extremists in Somalia, killing one passenger and abducting five others, officials said. According to officials, the helicopter…
Taliban continues to detain, lash young girls for allegedly violating hijab rules

Taliban continues to detain, lash young girls for allegedly violating hijab rules

Girls as young as 16 have been arrested across the Afghan capital, Kabul, in the past week for violating the Taliban’s hijab rules, The Guardian reported. The girls – who were detained in shopping centres, classes and street markets –…
Iraq: Analysis of aerial images may lead to new mass grave sites

Iraq: Analysis of aerial images may lead to new mass grave sites

With nine years into the Speicher Massacre committed by Daesh terrorists in 2014, the Mass Grave Department—an affiliate of the Martyrs Foundation—still expects to find new mass grave sites. In a statement followed by Shia Waves Agency, the head of…
Egypt: Two defendants sentenced to five years in murder of Shia preacher Hassan Shehata

Egypt: Two defendants sentenced to five years in murder of Shia preacher Hassan Shehata

The Second Terrorism Circuit of the Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced two defendants to five years in prison in a retrial in the case of the murder of the Shia preacher, the martyr Sheikh Hassan Shehata, Egyptian media outlets…
Terrorist attacks claim more lives in Pakistan ahead of election; 36 children die of pneumonia in 10 days

Terrorist attacks claim more lives in Pakistan ahead of election; 36 children die of pneumonia in 10 days

Five police officers and a civilian were killed on January 10 in separate attacks in Pakistan’s restive northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province bordering Afghanistan, local media reported. Two police officers were killed in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban in…
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