GENEVA (AA) – The UN human rights chief has urged the Taliban to protect the rights of women in Afghanistan, who face hunger and food insecurity, growing domestic violence and harassment, unemployment, lack of access to education. Michelle Bachelet told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that since the Taliban have assumed power, women and [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA): An Egyptian criminal court sentenced 10 convicts from the Muslim Brotherhood group to death Tuesday for carrying out attacks against police and facilities in the case known as the Helwan Brigades. The court was headed by Mohammed Shireen Fahmy and included a sentence in absentia for Yahya Moussa, a leader in the Muslim […...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An Iranian court has ordered the United States to pay $4.3 billion in compensation for the killing of the country’s nuclear scientists. Iran blames Israel, a major ally of the US, for the assassination of a number of Iranian nuclear scientists in recent years. “The 55th Civil Court of Tehran ordered the […]
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – Muslims in Uganda have protested against discrimination and exclusion from government positions by getting their MPs to write to the nation’s president. Fifty Muslim MPs in the Uganda Muslims Parliamentary Caucus (UMPC) wrote to the President Yoweri Museveni through Speaker Annet Among, in order to complain about t...
LONDON (AA) – Mohammed Hanif, a British-Pakistani writer, has announced his withdrawal from a conference in Germany after Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian writer and poet, was disinvited. The conference is being organized by the Goethe Institute and is titled Beyond the Lone Offender – Dynamics of the Global Right. It will take place in H...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A Bangladeshi lawyer reportedly posted a derogatory social media comment about the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) on Wednesday. The Facebook post went viral on social media amid outrage in the South Asian Muslim-majority nation against insulting comments about the prophet from two officials of India’s ruling B...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Pakistan’s newly-appointed foreign minister on his first official visit to Tehran on Tuesday held wide-ranging talks with his Iranian counterpart to discuss bilateral and regional issues. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s two-day visit to Iran is the first by a top-ranked Pakistani official since the formation of a new g...
PARIS (AA) – As France began the withdrawal of its forces from Mali, the French military announced the arrest of a senior Daesh leader on Wednesday. Oumeya Ould Albakaye, a senior leader of the Daesh was captured during an operation between June 11-12 involving air and ground units of the Barkhane force, according to a […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The general secretary of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) spoke by phone on Sunday June 12 with Pakistan’s foreign minister on the rising tide of Islamophobia in India, particularly the recent insulting remarks made by two spokespersons for India’s ruling party against Islam’s Prophet Muhammad ...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Two Yemeni soldiers were killed and four others injured by Houthi shelling, according to the army on Sunday. A military statement said it documented 91 Houthi violations of a UN-brokered truce in the provinces of al-Hudaydah, Taiz, Ad-Dali, Hajjah and Marib. “These violations resulted in the death of two army soldiers...
