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U.S. President Donald Trump’s pardon of four American men convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as contractors in 2007 violated U.S. obligations under international law, U.N. human rights experts said on Wednesday.Nicholas Slatten was convicted of first-degree murder, while…

UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, called on Sunday for reaching a solution to the conflict in war-torn Yemen by 2021.“2020 has been another year of cruelty for Yemenis with the continuation of bloodshed, displacement, economic freefall, and the outbreak…

The international activist Willie Tu confirmed that US President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon military contractors imprisoned in connection with a civilian massacre in Baghdad will encourage American soldiers to commit more atrocities.Sputnik, in an interview, quoted the Virginia Defender…

Several Islamic organizations in the United States, led by the American Council of Islamic Organizations USCMO, called for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, to achieve justice for the Uyghur Turks in the Autonomous Region of East Turkistan (Xinjiang), western China.This…

American Orientalist Dr. Douglas Crowe wrote a research about the most prominent political and religious events after the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him.Crowe is a senior researcher at the International Institute for Higher Islamic Studies in Malaysia,…

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…

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…

The United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, described government officials who took advantage of the Corona pandemic to restrict religious freedom as malicious, stressing that the exploitation of the pandemic crisis has led to an increase in…