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RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: MUFTI DONS COMBAT FATIGUES TO FIGHT PUTIN AND AVENGE SYRIA

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Said Ismagilov, centre, poses with fellow members of Ukraine’s Territorial Defence Forces (Facebook) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Thu 17 March 2022: Said Ismagilov says there is ‘Quranic justification’ for Muslims to battle Vladimir Putin’s forces Said Ismagilov, mufti of the Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine and one of the country’s top Islamic leaders, has traded in his traditional robes […]

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SYRIANS SEEK JUSTICE FOR WAR ATROCITIES 11 YEARS AFTER UPRISING

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Amjad al-Malah, holding his daughter, survived years of siege in Madaya with little food and medicine [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera] ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Wed 16 March 2022: Over the past decade, Syria’s uprising-turned-civil war has been littered with grave human rights violations that rights groups say could amount to war crimes. Amjad al-Malah, 32, and his family […]

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MINGLING FACTS WITH FICTION: WHY ‘THE KASHMIR FILES’ FILM IS ISLAMOPHOBIC

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Tue 15 March 2022: A film based on the sorrow and migration of Kashmiri Pandits has instead managed to become a propaganda tool, inflaming anti-Muslim and anti-Kashmiri sentiments in the country, adding to the existing climate of anti-minority hatred that has permeated society for the past eight years or so. The Kashmir Files is supposed […]

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ORDINARY RUSSIANS ARE ALREADY FEELING THE ECONOMIC PAIN OF SANCTIONS OVER UKRAINE INVASION

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Wed 09 March 2022: The daily life of ordinary Russians – not just the country’s political elite or super rich oligarchs – is already being impacted by economic measures imposed by the international community in response to the invasion of Ukraine. As a scholar of Russia’s political economy, I was surprised by the speed and severity of the […]

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IRAN SAYS WON’T ENDANGER NATIONAL INTERESTS AFTER RUSSIAN DEMAND

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Tue 08 March 2022:  Tehran, Iran – Iran has said it will not allow foreign powers to force its hand and was awaiting clarification from Moscow after a new Russian demand about sanctions linked with Ukraine clouded the prospects of restoring a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. “While standing firm in maintaining our red lines, […]

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TIME FOR BOSNIA TO ‘GET RID OF RUSSIAN INFLUENCE’: ANALYSTS

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Solidarity with Ukraine from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thu 03 March 2022:  There is now an opportunity for vulnerable countries like Bosnia to shake off Russian influence and take steps to join NATO, analysts say. The Russian invasion of Ukraine may spill over into the Western Balkans, most critically, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a small […]

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THE WAR ON SYRIA EMBOLDENED RUSSIA AND ITS RELENTLESS TARGETING OF CIVILIANS IN UKRAINE

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Wed 02 March 2022: In 2012, six months into the protests in Syria, activists asked for UN observers to be embedded with demonstrators to stop the Assad regime shooting indiscriminately into the crowd. They called for a no-fly zone, the same international protection from NATO that led to the overthrow of Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. […]

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