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Islamic countries to form contact group for Rohingya crisis: Iran envoy
Sep 07, 2017 07:15The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is set to form a contact group to help put an end to the ongoing atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Iran’s ambassador to the UN says.
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Muslim nations denounce Myanmar’s persecution of Rohingya Muslims
Sep 04, 2017 13:54A Nobel laureate and several Muslim nations have strongly denounced and staged protests against Myanmar's government over persecution of Muslim Rohingya minority in the western state of Rakhine.
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Leader's Hajj Message
Sep 02, 2017 08:20Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has issued a message on the occasion of Hajj pilgrimage season. Here is a translation of the message:
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British FM urges Suu Kyi to end violence against Rohingya Muslims
Sep 04, 2017 06:35British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has condemned ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in the Muslim-majority Rakhine region in Myanmar.
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Tehran’s Eid-al-Adha Prayer Leader warns Muslim world of Zionist plots
Sep 01, 2017 08:09Senior Prayer Leader of Tehran, in his Eid al-Adha sermons Friday morning, called on world Muslims, especially the rulers, to take proper measures for safeguarding the interests and security of the Ummah.
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Millions of Muslim pilgrims performing annual Hajj rituals in Saudi Arabia
Aug 31, 2017 01:46Over two million Muslims from all over the world are performing the multi-stage Hajj pilgrimage at Islam’s holiest sites in Saudi Arabia.
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Rohingyas flee crackdown in Myanmar in thousands
Aug 30, 2017 06:16A government crackdown in Myanmar has forced nearly 19,000 members of Myanmar’s minority Rohingya Muslim community to flee to neighboring Bangladesh in less than a week.
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Bangladesh sends back 70 Rohingyas to Myanmar despite violence
Aug 27, 2017 07:59Security forces in Bangladesh have detained and sent back to Myanmar dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees who had made it across the border despite coming under fire by Myanmarese troops.
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Tens of thousands of Muslims flee violence in western Myanmar
Aug 26, 2017 12:31Tens of thousands of Muslims have begun fleeing toward Myanmar’s western border with Bangladesh as Buddhist mobs and security forces step up crackdown on members of the Rohingya community over recent attacks on police outposts.
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Mob attacks hijab-wearing woman in Spain in ‘Islamophobic’ assault
Aug 26, 2017 07:45A mob in Spain has brutally assaulted a hijab-wearing Muslim woman in the country’s capital of Madrid, in what police describe as an “Islamophobic” attack.