, who make up between 15% and 20% of the Sunni-majority country, the largest Shia community outside Iran Then, in mid-September, a march of more than 30,000 people, organised by extremist Sunni Muslim groups exacerbated by the proxy wars fought on Pakistan soil by Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia and Shia-majority Iran alleged: “We can’t ignore the role of regional and international powers in sectarianism in Pakistan … Iran

Reuters reported on Wednesday that the World Food Programme would halve rations to more than a million

These groups appear to be more integrated into transnational networks than earlier generations of jihadists Since the 2016 attack, the Dhaka metropolitan police’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit Indeed, Bangladesh is “a trans-shipment point for drugs produced in both the ‘golden triangle’ of Southeast Particularly vexing is the jihadist use of hundi, an informal domestic and international money transfer The central bank, Bangladesh Bank, has had marginal success in screening these transfers.

But rather than see the day as a liberation, the ruling party's detractors, including Sam Rainsy, the The Vietnamese would have occupied the country for longer than 10 years had it not been down to international

President Hassan Rouhani election was based on his “moderate” campaign, which seemed to signal a change in Iran Nazanin Zaghari, who came to Iran to visit her sick mother, has been sentenced to five years in jail. She was arrested in April l, 2016 at Tehran’s airport when returning from her two-week trip to Iran. On August 2, authorities announced that they had executed at least 20 alleged members of a group Iran Hundreds of websites, particularly social media platforms, have been blocked in Iran.

Sosa-Celis’s case received far less attention than the two other shootings, which left American citizens Around dinnertime on Jan. 14, two ICE agents were checking license plate numbers when they ran the tag Minneapolis office declined to speak in detail about the shooting, but said in a statement that agents are trained

s Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran correspondent covering the occupied Palestinian territories for more than More than 170 Palestinians were killed in such raids in 2022, many of them civilians. © 2023 Al Jazeera

military rulers have imposed a curfew in the country’s two biggest cities and banned gatherings of more than Monday announced new restrictive measures, including the banning of rallies and gatherings of more than

has been occurring in Nigeria over the last 20 years including recent testimonies of some of the more than While the country’s own government has failed to stop the violence, Nigeria has been transformed into study employed data from January 1, 2000 to January 31, 2020, to exposes how Book Haram killed more than s hotspots of Islamic extremism and that now more Christians have been killed for their faith there than

Over a career spanning more than thirty-five years, he has traveled repeatedly to Sudan, witnessing its insurgency; however, on the ground, fighting was done by Arab militias from the borderlands that were trained

Palestinians witnesses have described a violent scramble for whatever boxes of food are available, rather than The group has dismissed its critics, arguing that it has successfully delivered more than 100,000 boxes

violence flared up at the outset of the week, in the wake of a prior outbreak in August that had seen more than