Iran
Iran: UN rights chief condemns juvenile execution
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Iran to halt the execution of Razieh Ebrahimi, a child bride who killed her abusive husband when she was 17.
Tag: struggle within Islam
North Africa
Women’s rights advocate assassinated in Benghazi
Women's rights activist and attorney Salwa Bughaigis was assassinated at her home in Benghazi hours after she defied threats by voting in Libya's general election.
Iraq
Iraq: cultural cleansing in Mosul
The ISIS militants that have seized Mosul are engaged in a campaign of cultural cleansing—targeting not only the citiy's inhabitants, but its artistic and historical treasures.
Iraq
ISIS: too radical for al-Qaeda?
Ayman al-Zawahiri purged ISIS from al-Qaeda and confered the local franchise on the rival Nusra Front. But with the old Qaeda leadership moribund, ISIS now controls much of Iraq.
Greater Middle East
ISIS behind Brussels Jewish Museum killings?
News that a suspect in the Brussels Jewish museum killings fought in Syria with the insurgent group ISIS comes as European police escalate their crackdown on Syria "returnees."
South Asia
UN rights experts warn Pakistan on persecution
UN human rights experts urged Pakistan to take urgent measures against faith-based killings and protect the country's Ahmadiyya Muslim community, whose faith is now outlawed.
Iran
Iran: online revolt against hijab
Iranian women by the thousands are posting their photos without a hijab on a Facebook page called My Stealthy Freedom, created by London-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad.
Africa
#BringBackOurGirls: Obama sends in the drones
The Pentagon deploys 80 Air Force troops to Chad to maintain a drone force to assist in efforts to find the abducted Nigerian schoolgirls—as Nigerians organize self-defense militias.
Central Asia
Xinjiang: terror makes headlines —not repression
The deadly assault on a marketplace in Urumqi makes brief headlines, while the ongoing repression and humiliation of the Uighurs that fuels such attacks is little noted.
New York City
Islamophobia at Ground Zero —again?
Protests are mounting over a supposedly Islamophobic video to be screened at New York's Ground Zero museum—yet few have actually seen it. What is the truth here?
South Asia
Pakistan: 68 lawyers charged with blasphemy
Police in the Pakistani province of Punjab filed charges of blasphemy against 68 Shi'ite lawyers after they staged a protest against the police beating of one of their colleagues.
Greater Middle East
Transfer of Homs: the beginning of the end?
Contrary to regime propaganda, the fall of Homs to government forces comes amid rebel gains elsewhere in Syria. With the jihadists in disarray, the FSA prepares to open a new front.