As 16-year-old Miriam* stepped out of her tent to fetch water near the Madinatu Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state in January last year, a middle-aged woman she knew as "Aunty Kiki" approached her.
She asked...
As Ramadan comes at a difficult time of COVID-19 pandemic, Muslims observing fasting across the world have been putting extra effort into charity work.
Many have volunteered their time and effort, while others made generous donations to the needy.
Keeping up...
On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a news briefing that annexation of the West Bank was ultimately an "Israeli decision" and that that the United States would share their views on this matter with Israel privately. His...
In a statement published on Thursday, Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, the Jordan-appointed council that oversees Islamic sites on the sacred compound announced the closure of al-Aqsa compound during Ramadan.
The council has described the decision as 'painful'.
The council said the move was...
The United States launched air raids in Iraq late on Thursday, US officials said, directing them at four locations of the Iranian-backed Shia militia members believed to be responsible for an earlier rocket attack that killed and wounded American and British troops at...
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg recently bought the film rights to a novel about "Israel Palestine" before it was published, something that may take us to a cultural moment of unfortunate deja vu.
In the mid-1950s, powerful Hollywood executives financed the...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's decision to release prisoners in phased manner has come under criticism from the Taliban armed group, which said the move was against the US-Taliban agreement signed in the Qatari capital Doha on February 29.
"We reject Ghani's phase release...
A decree to release 1,500 Taliban prisoners has been signed by Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani as a move to begin direct talks with the group after an 18-year war.
According to a copy of the two-page decree seen by Reuters...
Recep Tayyib Erdogan, Turkish President is demanding more support from the EU and NATO over the ongoing Syrian War as fighting rages in Idlib and the unfolding of a refugee crisis at the Turkish-Greek border.
Erdogan flew to Brussels for...
Iran has temporarily released approximately 70,000 prisoners due to the coronavirus outbreak, Iranian judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday, according to Mizan, the news site of the judiciary.
There were 49 new fatalities in Iran, where some 194 people...
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