A strong earthquake struck Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said, sending out tremors that could be felt from the capital Kabul across the border into neighbouring Pakistan. People ran out of their doors...
In May, Turkey unveiled Yıldırımhan , its first intercontinental ballistic missile project, in a move that came as a surprise even to many in the Turkish defense community. Until then, public attention in Turkey had focused mostly on short- and...
Painting by Safia Latif Our Prophet ﷺ never gave up on fasting on Ashura, which is the 10th day of Muharram (Sunan al-Nasa’i, 2416). The Quraysh used to fast on this day in times of Jahiliyyah, and so did he ﷺ...
Hassan Aweys, the second-in-command of the Islamic Courts, was a longstanding target of the United States. ( Picture: African Arguments ) 2026 brings a seminal anniversary to the history of Somalia and East Africa, but also an important and overlooked one...
Painting by Safia Latif Our Prophet ﷺ never gave up on fasting on Ashura, which is the 10th day of Muharram (Sunan al-Nasa’i, 2416). The Quraysh used to fast on this day in times of Jahiliyyah, and so did he ﷺ...
Dear Struggling and Distressed Muslim, This letter was meant for you. Yes, you specifically. The one who has been struggling and not understanding why it’s not working out . The one who has seen countless members of your family...
By: Majid Maqbool - - - - On June 9, India opened a strategically vital 13.15 km tunnel linking the Kashmir region to Ladakh beneath the 3,529-meter Zojila pass, the world’s longest single-tube bi-directional road tunnel at the world’s highest...
Internet access is often used as a tool to control the media during conflicts Originally published on Global Voices Advox Image from iMEdD, used with permission. This article by Elli Kostika, Katerina Voutsina, and Kelly Kiki is an excerpt from a longer piece...
A year after their brief war in 2025, both India and Pakistan are revving up their war frenzy. The drums of victory are being beaten with nationalistic zeal on both sides. The two nations teem with jingoism, a sense of...
On 22 April, India marked the anniversary of a terrorist attack, one of the bloodiest massacres in recent years. It directly sparked yet another Indo‑Pakistani armed conflict. On the terrorist attack in Pahalgam The immediate toll of the terrorist attack...
There is a certain kind of “moderate” Muslim scholar whom empire adores: calm in tone, allergic to resistance, fluent in scripture, and permanently available to explain to the oppressed why their rebellion is impractical, premature, emotional, immoral, or insufficiently spreadsheeted....
The Indian state’s crackdown on independent Muslim voices continued when a court slapped three life sentences on an Islamic writer and Kashmiri activist, Asiya Andrabi, and two others, for what appears to have been more an attack on ideology rather...
Finally there’s an award that President Trump deserves to win By Doug BANDOW Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su With the Middle East in flames, President Donald Trump’s desperate lobbying campaign for the...
Pakistan is reportedly seeking financial support from China and Saudi Arabia as it faces pressure to repay approximately $3.5 billion to the UAE. The South Asian country is seeking loans and investments to repay the sum owed to...
For the past few weeks, residents living in and around Dal Lake in Indian Kashmir have witnessed “a different phenomenon” as a green sludge has accumulated on the once pristine water. Photos circulating widely on social media triggered a public...
Last week, water became a focal point in the Iran war, as airstrikes hit desalination plants in Iran and Bahrain. Further east, a slower motion water war was playing out — one that is heightening tensions between two nuclear armed...
Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Israel was staged as a triumph of “strategic partnership,” but it landed as something more cynical: political cover for an Israeli leadership facing unprecedented legal and diplomatic scrutiny. Modi addressed the Knesset, met Benjamin...
During joint operations with the U.S. on Saturday, Israel targeted and killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who at 86 had been Iran’s longest serving head of state, leading the Islamic Republic since 1989. It was the first open, direct assassination of...
Pakistani authorities deployed troops and imposed a three-day curfew before dawn Monday in the northern cities of Gilgit and Skardu after several people died and tens were injured in violent protests following the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader...
During joint operations with the U.S. on Saturday, Israel targeted and killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who at 86-years-old had been Iran's longest serving head of state, leading the Islamic Republic since 1989. It was the first...
DELHI, India — After 25 books were banned by the Indian government last year, security forces have been raiding bookshops and authors’ homes in different parts of Kashmir for supposed secessionist content. Despite this climate of censorship, numerous...
This article is part of our special series recognizing the four-year anniversary of the Ukraine War The Russian invasion of Ukraine is entering its fifth year. We know from history that warring states are capable of enduring far longer than...
Around the world, Muslims rejoice with anticipation and excitement for the blessed month. They get to wake up before dawn with lights on for suhoor, set “Ramadan goals,” deepen their relationship with the Qur’an, stand shoulder-to-shoulder in taraweeh prayers, retreat...
- - - - One of Google’s Nest surveillance cameras, whose recordings can be accessed by Google even if users don’t subscribe to the security firm’s services. CC Photo Lab / Shutterstock That the U.S. Surveillance State is rapidly...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - Reuters photo The recent wave of coordinated attacks by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) across more than 10 cities in the troubled province of Balochistan, which takes up 44 percent of the...
A woman in a remote hamlet in Kashmir, India, migrates to a safer location with her child as floodwater inundates her hometown. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS By Umar Manzoor Shah SRINAGAR & NEW DELHI, Feb 9 2026 (IPS) When the rain...
Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . While African Union officials see Sudan’s return to the African Union as unlikely in the near term as Prime Minister Kamel Idris presses to make the case for reinstatement, his diplomacy,...
By: Nirupama Subramanian - - - - Deccan Herald graphic The dark clouds over the “ most consequential relationship of the 21 st century ” appear to have lifted with US President Donald Trump’s announcement earlier this week that...
For the first time in 10 years elections have taken place in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in the Indian union territories bordering Pakistan. Peaceful integration into the Indian federation The former state, which now a lower status (the...
A Facade of Peace Religious Suppression How can India claim normalcy when religious rights, a fundamental human freedom, are denied to millions? The people of Kashmir, who have long used their religious spaces for solace, protest, and spiritual renewal, now face...
The Story Here is Hājar , a noblewoman given as a servant to Ibrahim and Sarah , who leaves her native Egypt only to be abandoned in a desert with her son at the command of a god she can...
A Palestinian and Kashmiri couple has launched a website called 'DisOccupied' aimed at cataloguing all the brands they have found to indirectly support the Israeli military. Nadia and Shehzad, the husband-wife team, have implemented a ranking system on their platform,...
Dachigam National Park forest guard Ghulam Ahmad Bhat films a rare sighting of a hangul deer herd in Kashmir, November 2023 (Video: Ghulam Ahmad Bhat) An ‘extinction vortex’ An illustration of Kashmir’s elusive hangul deer, from The deer of all lands: a...
Kashmir’s growing birding scene Recommended Can bird sightings help science in Kashmir? The orange bullfinch, a species that breeds only in and around Kashmir (Image: Alamy) Reyan Sofi watching birds in Hokersar wetland, Kashmir (Image: Adeeb Ahmad) Recommended Birdwatchers step into conservation The ibisbill, a rare and...
In 2018, during a trip to the Indian capital, New Delhi, two friends came across a frozen delicacy that would change their lives forever – traditional Turkish ice cream, Anadolu Agency reports. Blown away by the unique flavour, they sought...
Rubeena Akhtar has a lot to do before Thursday, the day Indian-administered Kashmir will celebrate Eid Al-Adha, or the "Feast of Sacrifice". Relatives and friends will be coming over all through the day and Akhtar wants everything to be perfect....
There is an air of mourning in Bandli, a small village nestled among lush green hills in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Anadolu Agency reports. Grief has gripped this village since last week's shipwreck off the coast of Greece, a tragedy that has...
Recommended Government assurances Recommended How medicinal plants are regulated in Jammu and Kashmir The root and rhizome of Podophyllum hexandrum, which grows across the Himalayan region, are used in traditional medicine (Image: Alamy) Delays setting up BMCs A man collects water chestnuts, which are used in...
In Jammu and Kashmir, Eviction Drive Sparks Anger and Protests From a Cross-Section of Society New International Sanctions Announced on Myanmar’s Junta as Airstrikes, Arrests Keep Country on Edge Pakistani Brothers Finally Leave Guantanamo Bay After 20 Years Without Charge or Trial Attacks...
Biodiversity is in the headlines as 2022 comes to an end, with a “historic” deal to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 agreed at a global summit in Montreal, Canada. Dubbed by some commentators a “Paris Agreement for nature”, conservationists hope...
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Analysis: Concerns about Turkey's regional assertiveness have pushed Greece to adopt a more proactive foreign policy, with Athens building new military and diplomatic alliances. "Against the Iranian axis, a resounding and strong regional alliance has been formed. Greece, Cyprus, Egypt,...
The three countries' top diplomats discussed reconstruction efforts and an initiative to combat global Islamophobia. Azerbaijan has invited companies from Turkey and Pakistan to help rebuild the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, parts of which...
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He was tested many times but he proved his steadfastness, resolve and dedication. He had a natural inclination to worship one God and dislike for idol worship from the very beginning of his conscious life. He broke idols into pieces...
The year has been dominated by repression but also by resistance, says the human rights organisation in its annual review The year across the Asia-Pacific has been dominated by repression, but also resistance, as the two largest countries on Earth...
The Middle East has always been a difficult region for the West, especially for the United States. During the Cold War era, America’s efforts to establish its hold over the region’s key oil-producing countries backfired, resulting in anger and resentment...
India’s government has pushed through a dangerous new bill that has provoked a mass uprising . The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) offers a fast-track to legalization for Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Parsi, Buddhist and Jain immigrants from bordering nations while explicitly...
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