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The Afghan Ministry of Defense announced, today, that 30 members of the Taliban terrorist movement were killed in an explosion inside a mosque in the northwestern province of Balkh.Tolo News channel quoted the ministry saying that 30 Taliban fighters, including…

The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, has welcomed the decision of the Saudi authorities to release the activist Loujain Al-Hathoul and some prisoners of conscience, calling for all judicial decisions to be dropped for those convicted of human rights cases.The…

As part of its charitable and humanitarian activities, the Misbah al-Hussein Foundation for Relief and Development in the holy city of Karbala, which operates under the supervision of the Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Sayyed…

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…