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A leading Nigerian Muslim rights group has rejected Boko Haram’s claims that it has formed an Islamic caliphate in Gwoza town in Borno state, urging Nigerian army to stand up and cleanse the group’s threat.    The leader’s statement defied…

Nine Bahraini human rights organizations, along with human rights activists in Bahrain, have launched a campaign for the release of the blind Bahraini detainee Jafar Matooq, who is in urgent need of medical treatment.   This campaign was launched as…

Three people were martyred and 14 others were wounded by explosions of two car bombs in Holy Kazimiyah and Utaifiyya neighborhood.    A police source said that the blasts damaged a number of nearby shops.  

At least 10 children were martyred in an ISIL mortar shell attack on a clinic in Amerly area.   Meanwhile, Iraqi security forces backed by the locals of Amerly area foiled an attack by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq…

In cooperation with 10 institutions and committees from different parts of Qateef, Medad Committee has held a symposium about the Late Eminent Grand Ayatollah Sayed Mohammad Husseini Shirazi, may Allah bless his soul.   The symposium, entitled the Media in…

The leader of takfiri Boko Haram has proclaimed an Islamic caliphate in the north eastern Nigerian town of Gwoza, which was seized by the Boko Haram terrorists earlier this month.   The United Nations humanitarian office confirmed reports earlier this…

Protesters have taken to the streets in Saudi Arabia’s restive Eastern Province, calling for the release of senior Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.   Blocking rural roads in the Qatif region, the demonstrators denounced the Saudi regime’s suppression of the…

Prominent human rights defender and founder of the Bahrain Centre for Human rights (BCHR) and the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) has declared an open hunger strike “in protest against the continuation of arbitrary arrest and detention.”   In…

On the occasion of Eid Al-Ghadir, a revised copy of Nahj-ul-Balaqa edited by Qais Bahjat Attar, will be published by Specialized Library of Imam Ali, peace be upon him.   The director of the library said that the copy will…

The Iraqi security forces, backed by tribes’ members, foiled an attack led by the terrorists of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Dujail district of Shia majority, located in Southern Tikrit city, in Salahuddin province.…