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Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Could he be Iran’s next supreme leader?Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has passed away amidst ongoing air strikes. A three-person council, including the President ...
Has Iraq lowered minimum age for Muslim girls to marry to as young as nine-year-old? Here's truthIraq witnessed a massive uproar after news broke out that the Parliament had passed a law that sought to lower minimum age for Muslim girls...
Back to medieval times? Iraqi men can marry children as young as 9; government lowers the age of consent for girlsIraq stands at the brink of a legal upheaval that could change the course of women’s rights in the country. With a proposal to lower the ag...
Iraq plans to lower the marriage age for girls to nine: Here're the other proposed controversial changesA proposed Iraqi bill aimed at lowering the legal marriage age for girls to 9 has ignited widespread opposition. Critics state it would inc...
Who is Umm Hudaifa? What did she say about atrocities committed by slain ISIS chief Abu Bakr al Baghdadi?Umm Hudaifa, the wife of the deceased chief of ISIS Abu Bakr Baghdadi is currently in a prison in Baghdad facing charges related to various...
India's concern over minority religion attacks reflected in UNSC statement on Afghan mosque strikeThe 15-nation UNSC issued the press statement on Saturday in which the members "condemned in the strongest terms the atrocious and cowardly...
ISIS not just regional terror outfit but global syndicate with affiliated groups globally: IndiaRavindra said ISIL has systematically committed genocide, torture, rape, slavery and kidnapping throughout the territory under its control ...
Fighting ISIS can lead to "sectarian violence" in India: Home MinistryAllowing Indians to take part in the conflict in Iraq or Syria would "directly result in sectarian conflict" and amount to promoting terror...
Religious freedom conditions continued 'downward trend' in India in 2017: USCIRFUS Commission for International Religious Freedom in its latest report has placed India in the Tier 2 countries of particular concern along...
US panel wants Pakistan on list for religious freedom violationsAs such USCIRF again recommended the State Department to designated Pakistan a "country of particular concern", or CPC, under IRFA.
Afsha Jabeen, IS recruiter from Hyderabad dreams of global caliphateAfsha Jabeen had deeply imbibed the terror outfit's religious extremism, fervently believing that a global caliphate would be established s...
No 'selective application' in dealing with terrorism: BRICSIndia and four other members of the BRICS today said there should be no "political approaches" and "selective application" in dealing with ...
Islamic State is targeting educated women in new wave of horror: UNUN warned educated women, particularly those who have run for elections, that they risk executions, cruel and inhuman punishments from the ...
UK imams issue fatwa on British Muslim extremistsThe fatwa "religiously prohibits" would-be British jihadists from joining "oppressive and tyrannical" Isis, also known as Islamic State.
US President Barack Obama passes law to appoint special envoy in AsiaObama has signed a bill which calls for appointing a special envoy near East and South Central Asia to promote freedom of religious minorit...
US condemns religious and ethnic prosecution by ISIL in IraqThese abominable actions only further demonstrate ISIL's mission to divide and destroy Iraq, Psaki said.
ISIL attacks on civilians could amount to war crimesSuch attacks on civilians and countrymen are violations of international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes.
- On religious discrimination, India next only to Iraq: US thinktank
'India is next only to Iraq when it comes to social hostility.'
- India next only to Iraq on religious discrimination: US thinktank
A study carried out by Washington-based Pew Research Centre, the highly respected US thinktank, India is next only to Iraq when it comes to...
- Bush admits to flaws in Iraq strategy
The Iraqi government has failed to meet half the benchmarks outlined by the US Congress.