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Iraqi Shias facing massacre by ISIL in Amerli
August 25, 2014
Iraqi Shias facing massacre by ISIL in Amerli
Senior UN official has warned that Shia Turkmen residents of an Iraqi town besieged by the ISIL Takfiri terrorists could be massacred if urgent action is not taken to rescue them. The residents of this small Shia Turkmen community about…
Quranic School opens in Nigeria
August 17, 2014
Quranic School opens in Nigeria
A new Quranic school named Noor was inaugurated in Nigeria’s Saumil region. The school holds Quranic courses for children and teenagers in the region. It will also organize forums and seminars on religious and Quranic issues for adults. The…
Bahraini protesters condemn their rulers for violating human rights
August 17, 2014
Bahraini protesters condemn their rulers for violating human rights
In Bahrain, people have taken to the streets to condemn their rulers for violating human rights of Bahraini citizens. According to news sources, the protesters in the island of Sitra were angry over recent measures adopted by the regime…
ISIL sends bodies of dead terrorists to Syria to hide casualties
August 17, 2014
ISIL sends bodies of dead terrorists to Syria to hide casualties
An informed Iraqi source reported that the terrorists of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant collect the corpses of their dead militants and take them to Syria to hide their casualties. An intelligent source said that…
13 terrorists arrested in Balad district of Shia majority
August 17, 2014
13 terrorists arrested in Balad district of Shia majority
13 terrorists, including two Europeans, arrested in Balad district of Shia majority Iraqi security forces have arrested a terrorist cell made up of 13 terrorists of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, including two carrying European…
ISIL blows up holy Shia site in Iraq
August 17, 2014
ISIL blows up holy Shia site in Iraq
Terrorists of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant blew up a holy Shia shrine in Nineveh, north of Iraq. A member of the Iraqi human rights supreme commission said that the ISIL terrorists detonated the holy…
Nigeria students demand of lifting Hijab ban
August 17, 2014
Nigeria students demand of lifting Hijab ban
Muslims in the south-western Nigerian state of Ondo have reiterated calls for the government to allow hijab in the schools and offer places for Friday payers in the schools as a fundamental human right for Muslims. Several school principals…
Bahraini court sentences 14 Bahrain Shias to life in prison
August 17, 2014
Bahraini court sentences 14 Bahrain Shias to life in prison
A Bahrain court sentenced 14 Shias to life in prison over the death of a policeman in an anti-regime protest in the country, A judicial source said that the 14 were found guilty of “premeditated murder”, possessing petrol bombs…
8 martyred in Iraq car bombings mostly in Shia neighbourhoods
August 17, 2014
8 martyred in Iraq car bombings mostly in Shia neighbourhoods
At least eight people have been martyred in four car bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. According to an Interior Ministry source the car bomb explosions on Wednesday also left 36 people injured. A car bomb went off…
Turkmen Shias flee to Holy Najaf escaping ISIL onslaught
August 17, 2014
Turkmen Shias flee to Holy Najaf escaping ISIL onslaught
Shia Turkmen families from Tal Afar in Northern Iraq have been fleeing south to the holy city of Najaf to escape so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group’s onslaught in the north of the country. …