The Indian state where Muslim girls with hijab are being banned from entering schools has now turned violent against Muslims. On Sunday at least 20 people were injured and around 50 vehicles torched during a funeral procession. A Hindu extremist, who police say, was an active Bajrang Dal militia member involved in attacks targeting Muslims [&h...
A total of 750 tons of emergency relief goods sent by a“charity train” from Turkey to Afghanistan was delivered to Kabul Monday. Medical aid packages were delivered to the Health Ministry of the interim Afghan administration in a ceremony. It was coordinated by Turkey’s state-run Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency and with the suppo...
Pakistan is under fire for toughening its controversial cybercrime law. It allows anyone to file a complaint against people posting fake news on Twitter and Facebook, and increases the prison term from three to five years for those found guilty. Changes to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act were introduced Sunday through a presidential or...
Iran signaled “significant progress” Monday in talks on reviving a stalled accord on its nuclear program. But President Ebrahim Raisi, on his first visit to a Gulf state, insisted Washington must lift its crippling sanctions on Iran. The country’s president is a personal target of United States’ sanctions. Raisi spoke out ahead of a summit [&h...
Burma on Monday urged the U.N.’s highest court to drop a genocide case brought against it by The Gambia for alleged persecution of Rohingya Muslims. Gambia dragged Burma before the International Court of Justice in 2019. The Buddhist-majority country is accused of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority after a bloody 2017 military crac...
University students whose peers were killed in a rocket attack by the YPG/PKK terrorist group last week in northwestern Syria want the perpetrators held accountable. The terror group has recently increased its attacks on civilians, disrupting security in the safe zones of northern Syria. On Feb. 15, four people, including two students from Ale...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi will visit Qatar on Monday with a high-ranking delegation, according to Iranian media. The visit comes at the official invitation of Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, state news agency IRNA reported. During the visit, the Iranian leader will witness the signing of several agreemen...
URDASPUR, India (AA) – As India’s northern Punjab province is electing a new assembly on Sunday, Kartarpur – one of Sikhism’s holiest shrines situated a few miles away across borders in Pakistan – finds an echo in election campaigning. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules the country, is taking credit for...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi has said he asked the authorities to prosecute the organizers of a symposium held by a banned Bahraini group in the capital Beirut. On Tuesday, Al-Wefaq Society held a symposium in Beirut to mark the anniversary of opposition protests that erupted against the ruling regime in [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia said it plans to hold a fifth round of direct talks with regional rival Iran. “We are looking to schedule a fifth round of direct talks with Iran despite a lack of substantive progress so far,” Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud said in a speech at the Munich […]
