More than 2,100 environmental activists were killed worldwide between 2012 and 2023, with Latin America holding the highest percentage globally. The new report by Global Witness said an estimated 196 land and environmental defenders were killed globally in 2023 alone. The report found Colombia was the deadliest country in the world for environ...
Tent encampments of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies that support the war in Gaza have spread across the country Muslim Network TV Desk LOS ANGELES, Southern California – Chaos erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles, when around 200 pro-Israel demonstrators forcefully enter...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Three Indian soldiers and two freedom fighters were killed in a gunfight in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. Two more soldiers were injured in the early morning shootout in the Rajouri district, according to the Indian military. The army’s 16 Corps said on Twitter that two freedom fighters [&hel...
TAIZ, Yemen (AA) – Hundreds of Yemenis on Tuesday participated in a rally in Taiz to condemn continued violence in the city. Speaking at the rally which was organized by rights activists, human rights activist Faisal Al-Assali denounced the Houthi militia for “violations against civilians.” He said the agreement that the Houthis claim to...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has asked for clarifications about the questioning of Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi by Tunisian authorities, a former parliamentarian said on Saturday. Maher Madhioub said in a Facebook post that the IPU’s Human Rights Committee requested clarifications from Tunisian authoritie...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels have said they will reject any extension of UN-brokered truce with the Yemeni government. In a statement, the group’s Supreme Political Council dismissed reports about “renewing the ongoing truce in the country,” the Houthi-run Saba news agency reported. “The truce in which the aggressor failed t...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi security forces captured 26 suspected members of the ISIS in security swoops across Iraq, authorities said on Sunday. Seven suspected ISIS members were arrested in an ambush in the northern Kirkuk province on Saturday, the Iraqi National Security Service said in a statement. Security forces also nabbed 12 suspects in the [...
Israeli authorities blocked the appointment of new Palestinian security guards at the Al-Aqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City. Authorities threatened Palestine’s Jerusalem Islamic Waqf with arrest if they refused to comply. The religious trust administers the Al-Aqsa compound and needs new guards. There have been no new guards a...
