An ad campaign by an online investment company predominantly serving Muslims was banned by the United Kingdom’s advertising watchdog for featuring images of Euros and US dollars, as well as the words “The United States of America” in flames alongside calls to “join the money revolution.”
While the rest of the world celebrated the New Year, the city of New Orleans in Louisiana is reeling from a deadly truck attack after a man slammed a rented Ford pickup truck into a crowd on a well-known street in the city during New Year celebrations at 3:15 AM, killing at least 14 people and injuring 35 others.
A prominent Nigerian atheist who was imprisoned for blasphemy has just been freed after serving more than four years in prison and is now living in a safe house as his legal team fears his life may still be in danger.
An Iranian dissident and musician became a target of an assassination plot by the Iranian regime, which ultimately failed, an international Iranian news outlet has learned.
An Iranian woman went viral on social media after she had a confrontation with a cleric, who berated her for not wearing a hijab at an airport in the Iranian capital, Tehran, where the woman angrily tore off his turban and wore it like a scarf in an act of protest.
A British teen convert who was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison for planning an attack against the Isle of Wight music festival stabbed 10 prison officers since being put behind bars.
An Iranian-American academic told a former British MP during an online interview that the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria is a victory for the Israelis, further lamenting that Turkey under Erdoğan is not serious about the Palestinian cause and with the MP suggesting that the October 7 attacks now looks like a bad idea.
The Taliban’s supreme leader issued a new order where new residential buildings in Afghanistan are constructed without windows looking onto "places usually used by women,” adding that existing windows with such views should be blocked to prevent "obscene acts.”
The first Sharia court was established in the United Kingdom in 1982. Today, around 85 Islamic councils operate in the country, making it the “Western capital” of Sharia courts.
A Dutch court sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison after she was convicted of crimes against humanity for keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave after joining the Islamic State (IS) in Syria.