A few weeks ago, I spoke on the phone with Sami, a Palestinian community activist and land defender from Masafer Yatta, an area in the occupied West Bank where 8 Palestinian villages are slated for demolition by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Sam…
Khamenei tells Erdogan offensive in Syria would be ‘detrimental’
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday told visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that any offensive by Ankara in northern Syria would be “detrimental” to the region. His statement came shortly before Iran’s ultra-conservativ…
Living in fear: A new threat to Iraq’s LGBTQ+ community
On 8 July 2022, the Iraqi LGBTQ+ community reacted in shock to the news that MPs had taken steps to pass legislation that would ban homosexuality in the country. At present, Iraq’s criminal penal code does not explicitly mention homosexuality, but Arti…
UK: Man charged with murder of 21-year-old Muslim woman
A 26-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Hina Bashir after a body was found in east London in the early hours of Sunday. 21-year-old Hina was reported missing from Ilford last week. Mohammed Arslan, from Ilford, was charged with her murder…
Sadr calls on Maliki to ‘surrender’ to the Iraqi judiciary
Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, head of the Sadrist Movement, on Monday called on his rival Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s former prime minister, to quit politics and surrender to the judiciary after secret recordings attributed to al-Maliki were released online…
Air pollution surges as heatwave sweeps across Europe
Air pollution is spiking across Britain, France, and southern Europe amid record-breaking temperatures and scorching wildfires. Scientists with the EU Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) warned on Tuesday of unhealthy levels of ozone pollut…
Egyptian journalist in Berlin ‘attacked by Sisi supporter’
An Egyptian journalist has said she was physically and verbally assaulted by a supporter of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Berlin on Monday as she chanted in protest of his official visit to Germany. Sisi was in Germany to meet the country’s…
Mali Tuaregs accuse junta-led regime of ditching peace pact
Allied ex-rebels who signed a peace deal with Mali’s government in 2015 have voiced alarm at what they call the pact’s “abandonment” by the junta-led government installed after a coup nearly two years ago. In a statement on Sunday, the Coordination of …
Jordan Peterson’s message to Muslims is about Israel
On the 13th of July, the ubiquitous Canadian academic and human algorithm, Jordan Peterson, published a controversial video message to Muslims on YouTube, produced by his new employer, The Daily Wire. It has garnered almost 2 million views in the space…
Thirteen killed during riot in Ecuador jail: prisons agency
Thirteen prisoners were killed at a prison in the Ecuadorean city of Santo Domingo on Monday, Ecuador’s prison agency said, the latest incident of deadly jail violence in the Andean country. The government of conservative President Guillermo Lasso attr…