Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday told a crowd of at least a million people he would approve the re-instigation of the death penalty if the parliament voted for it. Opposition leaders and religious figures joined Erdogan at the mass rally, in which the president blamed the coup on the US-based cleric Fethullah Gülen […]
A Philippine Islamic State affiliate has posted a video calling for the 2017 Miss Universe pageant set to take place in the Philippines to be targeted, while suggesting that an explosive belt or bomb be made especially for the beauty contest, SITE reports. “Philippines jihadi Telegram channel posted a video for making an explosive belt […]
Malaysia has 244 ships and 5,000 officers in place to police its coastlines, but top officials say they are looking to deploy more personnel and assets at strategic locations to prevent Islamic State (IS) members from entering Malaysian territory. Malaysia’s national police force already has beefed up its efforts to monitor the coastal and cross-border […]
At least 53 people have been killed in a suicide attack at the main gate of a hospital in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta. Officials said more than 100 were wounded — many of them critically — in the August 8 explosion, which took place shortly after the body of a prominent lawyer killed […]
Iran announced on August 7 that it hanged a nuclear scientist for handing over secret information to the United States, concluding a week in which the country came under criticism for its recent execution of up to 20 people. A judiciary spokesman was quoted as telling the Mizan Online news site that the scientist, Shahram […]
A father from Afghanistan, barely making ends meet, sold his own daughter to a 55-year-old cleric for a goat and some food. Footage doing the rounds on the Internet shows the moment local women gave him a beating. The father agreed to sell his six-year-old daughter Gharibgol to the 55-year-old imam, Seyed Abdolkarim, which runs […]
Driven by growing pressure to complete a showcase construction project on schedule, project managers at a building site in North Korea’s capital Pyongyang are openly supplying their exhausted work force with powerful methamphetamines called “ice,” North Korean sources say. And this has led to the appearance in the tightly controlled state of graffiti mocking production […]
The official platform of the Black Lives Matter movement has triggered criticism from Jewish organizations for accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinians and calling the country “an apartheid state.” T’ruah, a rabbinic human rights organization, has slammed the platform, published earlier this week, expressing dismay at the use of the term ‘genocide.’ “We are […]
