Fri 19 August 2022: Known as Kadyrovtsy after their leader Ramzan Kadyrov, the fighters are said to be brutal but delusional about their abilities. Bucha, Ukraine – Most of the Russian servicemen sitting in and atop 34 armed personnel carriers that rolled into Bucha on February 27 were ethnic Chechens, according to Ukrainian military leaders and […]
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Wed 17 August 2022: The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has been in existence for one year now, but change has been agonisingly slow; early promises on women’s rights are as yet unrealised; and the closure of schools for teenage girls continues to be a running sore for the international community. The country is in dire […]
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Mon 15 August 2022: India’s democracy is under pressure like never before as dreams of an ethnic Hindu nation leave its minorities sleepless. New Delhi, India – As India celebrates 75 years of independence, the country’s Muslims and other minorities say they find themselves in a state of siege. Ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) […]
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Mon 15 August 2022: On this day in 2021, the Taliban reached Kabul as the US-backed regime in Afghanistan crumbled and 20 years of American occupation ended in failure. What: The fall of Kabul When: 15 August 2021 Where: Afghanistan What happened? Shortly after 10pm on 15 August 2021, a small troop of Taliban fighters entered the Presidential […]
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Mon 15 August 2022: On 15 August 2021, the world looked on with trepidation as the situation in Afghanistan reached a critical juncture with the Afghan Taliban assuming power in the country. The takeover was swift, and relatively peaceful, with little resistance from the masses, followed by the abrupt withdrawal of US forces, leading to […]
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Sat 13 August 2022: Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s mass mobilisation of Islam showed that modernisation by no means implies a linear process of religious decline. Reliable large-scale data on Iranians’ post-revolutionary religious beliefs, however, has always been lacking. […]
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Tue 09 August 2022: For some time now, Al-Qaeda had stopped being the primary target of policy and counterterrorist experts. The erstwhile most dangerous terrorist group in the war on terror following its attacks on the United States on 9/11 had largely been inactive, particularly in Afghanistan. No longer responsible for any incident of violence, […]
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Rahaf Sulaiman, 11 years old, lost both of her legs in an lsraeli airstrike. Tue 09 August 2022: Latest Israeli attack on coastal enclave exacerbates crisis of health sector, already in dire condition due to 15-year-old blockade. Gaza City – Amina Ashkinan’s grandchildren were playing in front of their house at Jabalia refugee camp in the […]
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Sun 17 July 2022: Rainswept and bleak, Gleann Fhiodhaig in the northwest Scottish Highlands couldn’t be more different from Jabal Ar-Rahmah, which shimmers in the baking heat and desert climes on the outskirts of Makkah, known to millions of Muslim pilgrims around the world as Mount Arafat. Despite the thousands of miles that sets them […]
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Sun 10 July 2022: US President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to the Middle East has generated a lot of discussion in the region, not least because he has said that he will initiate a security coalition between Israel and some Arab countries, to confront any destabilising threats. This has been dubbed the “Middle East NATO” […]
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