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Nigerian troops deployed under Operation Forest Sanity killed at least two terrorists during clearance operations in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The Kaduna State’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said in a statement that…

Some 50 women and girls in Burkina Faso who were abducted last week while looking for food must be released immediately, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Unidentified armed groups reportedly kidnapped the women and girls on Thursday and Friday…

Members of the European Parliament on Tuesday called on the EU to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. They expressed horror over recent executions of protestors who took part in massive protests challenging the Iranian government. “As…

Yesterday, a delegation from the Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq Al-Husseini Al-Shirazi in Majunga, Madagascar, met with one of the country’s most prominent journalists and Director of RTN TV channel, Dady. The delegation presented a…

During the last days of the month of Jumada Al-Thani 1444 AH, the Mahdiya Islamic Center affiliated with the Shirazi Religious Authority in the Greek capital, Athens, had many activities and programs, including its hosting of a group of Shias…

Indonesia’s Halal Product Assurance Agency (BPJPH) and Malaysia’s Department of Islamic Development (JAKIM) are exploring cooperation in strengthening halal product assurance to bolster the halal product ecosystem. “We are currently finalizing the cooperation agreement between BPJPH and JAKIM,” BPJPH head…

Children’s rights must remain a priority and their voices should be heard and listened to, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Monday in Geneva. Addressing the opening of the 92nd session of the Committee on the…

The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, has expressed its strong condemnation of the cowardly terrorist act that killed innocent people in a church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, calling on the responsible authorities to activate their efforts to…

Al-Qaida and ISIS extremist groups are driving insecurity in central Mali and continue to clash near populated areas in the northern Gao and Menaka regions, the U.N. chief said in a new report circulated Monday. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said “the…

Bangladesh’s Armed Police Battalion (APBn) is committing extortion, arbitrary arrests, and harassment of Rohingya refugees already facing violence from criminal gangs and armed groups, Human Rights Watch said today. The Armed Police Battalion took over security in the Rohingya camps…