A Rohingya Muslim mob attacked and injured two ethnic Rakhine residents of Thaye Koneboung village in Myanmar’s conflict-torn northern Rakhine state on Thursday, the latest bout of violence amid growing tension between Buddhist and Muslim communities in the ethnically and religiously divided state. About 30 Rohingya attacked the men with knives and sticks in the […]
Myanmar has given Bangladesh a list of hundreds of suspected Rohingya insurgents believed to be hiding out across the border, but security sweeps have netted no rebels thus far, the Bangladeshi home minister told BenarNews in an interview this week. Myanmar officials furnished the list of names of alleged members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation […]
The Syrian Arab Army has fully liberated Deir ez-Zor city after over three years of ISIS occupation. Much of the city had been liberated following Syria’s breaking of the siege of Deir ez-Zor and entering the city on 5 September of this year. After the subsequent, nearly two months of fighting against the remnants of […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, visited areas hit by conflict in the western state of Rakhine on Thursday for the first time since a crackdown launched by the country’s military against Rohingya Muslim minority two months ago sparked a refugee crisis. Suu Kyi boarded a military helicopter at Sittwe, […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – The Russian Ministry of Defense on Wednesday, November 1 announced that their long-range bombers carried out a powerful attack against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria, Al-Masdar News reports. The Russian Aerospace Forces reportedly struck the Islamic State inside the Deir ez-Zor Governorate, but the exact location was not specified by the […]
About a fourth of Indonesia’s college students support fighting for the implementation of an Islamic caliphate system in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, a survey released Tuesday showed. The Jakarta-based Alvara Research Center and Mata Air Foundation polled 1,800 students from 25 leading universities in Indonesia and 2,400 students from high schools across Java […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan filed a criminal complaint against a prominent opposition lawmaker, one of Erdogan’s lawyers said on Tuesday, after the deputy called the Turkish leader a fascist dictator. In blistering criticism of Erdogan, the spokesman for the main opposition Republican People’s Party Bulent Tezcan attacked what he said was […]
Saudi Arabian authorities will allow women to attend sports events at stadiums at the beginning of 2018. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — “[The authority] will start rehabilitating the main stadiums in Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah to be ready to receive families starting in 2018,” the chairman of the General Sports Authority Turki Al-Asheikh said as quoted by […]
