The Russian Republic of Dagestan in the country’s North Caucasus region is holding three days of mourning following an attack by Islamic militants in two cities that targeted Orthodox Christian and Jewish houses of worship as well as a traffic police post that killed 20 people, mostly police officers.
Authorities in Pakistan have begun an investigation to identify and arrest members of a Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan that ransacked a police station, snatched a man held there, and lynched him after he was accused of blasphemy after he reportedly desecrated a Quran.
Russian special forces killed inmates suspected to be linked to the Islamic State (IS) group after the prisoners broke out of a cell in a Russian detention center and kidnapped two prison officers, holding them hostage.
A prominent female Iranian dissident and political prisoner was given an additional 18-and-a-half-year prison sentence by the Islamic Republic after she released a statement condemning the October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel and voicing her support for Israel.
Iranian Fatemeh Sepehri faces 18 years in prison. Why? Because she condemned the October 7 Hamas Muslim Brotherhood terror attacks. pic.twitter.com/Ajqg3lQoVv
Indian authorities are investigating a suspected terrorist attack after militants opened fire at a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims to the Shiv Khori cave temple in Indian-controlled Kashmir, plunging the vehicle into a deep gorge and killing nine and injuring 33 others.
The United Nations has condemned the Taliban after the ultraconservative administration publicly flogged more than 60 people, including more than a dozen women, in the northern Afghanistani province of Sari Pul.
A Christian father and son were attacked by hundreds of enraged Muslims in eastern Pakistan over allegations that the son desecrated pages of the Quran, leaving their house as well as their shoemaking factory ransacked and burned.
The angry Muslim mob went on a rampage on May 25th when locals claimed they saw burnt pages of the Quran outside the two Christian men’s house and accused the son of being behind it. The mob then set their house and shoemaking factory on fire and attacked the son.
Supporters of the Iranian regime violently attacked Iranian dissidents on May 24th after a group of dissidents protested outside a vigil in London for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran near the country’s border with Azerbaijan along with his foreign minister and several other Iranian officials on May 19th.
Around two weeks after they organized a demonstration in Hamburg in April, which included calls for a caliphate to be established in Germany, the Islamist group Muslim Interaktiv organized a new but strictly monitored rally on May 11th, where 2,300 people attended to protest against what they see is censorship against them by the German government.