A group of 22 Kuwaiti parliamentarians on Thursday demanded the government ban the entry of any member related to India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kuwait. Mejbel Alshrika, head of the Center for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law shared the official signed request on his Twitter handle. He said, “We can’t sit back and [&he...
A video of Indian policemen beating Muslim women advocating for wearing the hijab in school revived the controversy on Wednesday. The footage has been circulating on social media, and was broadcast by the local NDTV channel. It shows a group of women with their faces covered being approached by police before being struck by long […]
Three Kashmiri students have spent more than three months in jail now for celebrating the Pakistani cricket team’s win over India. Their families have appealed for their release as they struggle to bail them out. Arsheed Yousuf, Inayat Altaf and Showkat Ahmad Ganai — all in their early 20s — were arrested last October on […]
United Nations special envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg shed light Tuesday on the deteriorating situation in Yemen at the U.N. Security Council briefing. Grundberg called for an end to the devastating conflict that began in 2014, as civilian casualties surge and humanitarian aid dries up. Ending the war is a choice, he said. His comments [&helli...
Local agencies are helping Afghan refugees in North Carolina rebuild their lives nearly six months after the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan, triggering a mass exodus. The Triangle Association of Muslim American Mothers held an event at the Islamic Association of Raleigh for Afghan women refugees to shop for free. The group spent three week...
Afghanistan’s central bank on Saturday rejected U.S. President Joe Biden’s executive order to seize half of its $7 billion in assets held in American financial institutions. Da Afghanistan Bank said the decision to block their foreign exchange reserves and allocate them to “irrelevant” purposes is an injustice to the Afghan people. The bank sa...
Almost half of more than 1 million Rohingya living in congested refugee camps in Bangladesh are children growing up in subhuman conditions. The stateless minority is now worried about the future of more than 100,000 newborn babies. Violence, food shortages, lack of healthcare and access to basic education are some of the problems these childre...
A court in a southern Indian state told Muslim students on Thursday not to wear hijab until it delivers a verdict on their petitions. The students had requested the court overturn a ban on hijabs or headscarves worn by Muslim women. The Supreme Court of India on Friday declined to hear the case. Hijab protests […]
In response to the killing of three civilians by the Israeli military, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an affiliate with Fatah, called for a “general mobilization” of its fighters. It also called for the cancellation of the Oslo Peace Agreement. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency an Israeli special forces member, hidden in a civilian vehicle, st...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China on Wednesday criticized the US arms sale to Taiwan, saying it will take measures to defend the territorial integrity of the country. “The Peoples Liberation Army will take all necessary measures to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, thwart external interference and secessionist attempts, and p...
