Islam World

The International Shia Rights Watch organization expressed its condemnation of the sectarian rulings recently issued by Saudi courts against a number of young Shias for their participation in peaceful religious events inside the Kingdom.In a statement, the organization calls for…

Ten years after Bahrain’s popular uprising, systemic injustice has intensified and political repression targeting dissidents, human rights defenders, clerics and independent civil society have effectively shut any space for the peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of expression or…

The Bahraini Ministry of Interior announced that a prisoner in Jaw Central Prison had been infected with the Coronavirus, indicating that it had quarantined those in contact with him.The Ministry said, “The General Administration for Reform and Rehabilitation has taken…

An official delegation from the Vatican arrived in Najaf in preparation for the upcoming visit of Pope Francis with the religious authority.The papal delegation went to the old city and met with the office of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani.Head…

A human rights letter, signed by more than 100 prominent international human rights organizations and foreign ministers of governments around the world, warned against the efforts of the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to eliminate the human rights…

British ministers have refused to join the US in suspending arms sales to Saudi Arabia for offensive use in war-torn Yemen, saying the UK makes its own decisions about selling weapons.On Monday, the UK Foreign Office minister, James Cleverly, said…

Five people were killed in an armed attack and an explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul, while the Afghan Ministry of Defense announced the killing of 31 Taliban terrorists in an air strike by the Afghan air force in the…

Press sources confirmed the news of the Saudi authorities’ arrest of the engineer, Muhammad Hani Al-Qatari, four days after his disappearance from his home.In the context of the regime’s continuous targeting of Qatif, members of the Presidency of State Security,…

Iraq will welcome Pope Francis on Friday, March 5th, in his arrival to Baghdad International Airport.The Pope will visit the city of the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, Najaf, and meet the religious authority, His Eminence, Grand…

On the occasion of the auspicious birth anniversary of Lady Fatima al-Zahraa, peace be upon her, the Misbah al-Hussein Foundation for Relief and Development established its program to draw smiles on the orphans registered with the Anwar al-Huda Foundation in…