(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Nearly 14,000 children who have lost one or both parents are among the more than half a million Rohingya Muslim refugees who crossed in Bangladesh to escape violence in Myanmar, an official said Sunday.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Kofi Annan has urged the UN Security Council to push Myanmar to accept the return of half-a-million Muslim Rohingas sheltering in Bangladesh. The former UN chief said otherwise a “festering problem” would remain.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The senior sunni Iranian cleric Molavi Abdolhamid described the crimes committed against the Rohingya Muslim community in Myanmar as 'shocking and intolerable'.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Authorities in Beijing have shut down a well-known Islamic bookstore and publishing house and detained its founder on "terrorism" charges amid a nationwide security operation ahead of the ruling Chinese Communist Party's five-yearly congress this month.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Amid fears of an outbreak among nearly a million Rohingya now living in the vast refugee camps of southeast Bangladesh, the United Nations launched one of its biggest ever cholera vaccination drives Tuesday.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A senior United Nations human rights official called on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday to stop the violence and discrimination against the Muslim Rohingya minority.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Pope Francis is set to visit Myanmar in November as the Buddhist country's military is widely blamed for committing ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslim minority.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - At least 12 Rohingya refugees, mostly children, drowned when their boat capsized on the way to Bangladesh, police said on Monday, the latest victims of violence in Myanmar that has forced more than half a million people from their homes.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Winners of a competition titled “Ashura Through Art” were honored in a ceremony at the Iranian Cultural Center in Manila, the Philippines.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Canberra's Islamic community finally has a new place of worship, 17 years after plans were first made.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) is looking to back a push by Japanese firms planning to invest in Malaysia’s Sharia-compliant halal market, an SMBC official said.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A UK charity has warned that about 145,000 Rohingya refugee children pouring into Bangladesh to stay safe from a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar government are now at risk of severe malnutrition.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A former Malaysian ambassador has hit out at the recent arrests of more than 200 Iraqi Shia Muslims, saying this could court condemnation from the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - More than 200 Iraqi nationals were arrested in Selangor recently for taking part in Ashura mourning.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) -Followers of AhlulBayt (a.s.) observed a mourning ceremony on the occasion of Imam Hussain's martyrdom anniversary in Bangkok, Thailand.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) -Followers of AhlulBayt (a.s.) observed a mourning ceremony on the occasion of Imam Hussain's martyrdom anniversary at Ruhollah mosque in Nakhon, Thailand.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) -Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on Monday to set up a “joint working group” on the repatriation of Rohingya Muslim refugee who have fled to Bangladesh, Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali told reporters after talks with a Myanmar official.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Philippine lawmakers approved a bill declaring the first day of February as an annual National Hijab Day.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Chinese authorities are ordering Muslims in the country to hand over their prayer mats and copies of the Quran or else face punishment, it has been reported.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Sri Lankan police said Sunday they have arrested six people in their hunt for a mob led by Buddhist monks who attacked Rohingya refugees last week.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Followers of AhlulBayt (a.s.) observed a mourning ceremony on the occasion of Imam Hussain's martyrdom anniversary at Dar al-Zahra Islamic center in Bangkok, Thailand.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The UN Security Council must do everything it can to end the crimes against humanity and ongoing ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya civilian population in Myanmar, including by imposing a comprehensive arms embargo on the country, Amnesty International said.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Radical Buddhist monks have stormed a United Nations safe house for Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled violence against them in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has decried Myanmar's military crackdown on Rohingya in Rakhine State, accusing security forces of committing "crimes against humanity".
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The World Health Organization [WHO] warned Monday of a growing cholera risk in the makeshift refugee camps in Bangladesh where more than 435,000 Rohingya Muslims have sought shelter from unrest in Myanmar.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Turkey would build shelters for 100,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, an official of Turkey’s state-run aid body said on Sunday.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A video which had emerged shows the bodies of Rohingya Muslim children had washed up on a river after being shot dead by police in Burma.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Standing behind her stall at a Dubai exhibition Centre, Dai Dong He offered passersby what looked like carefully wrapped biscuits or chocolates.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Amnesty International has released fresh satellite images of burnt villages in Rakhine state, alleging that Myanmar's security forces have led "systematic" clearances of Rohingya Muslim settlements over the last three weeks.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Thousands of Rohingya Muslims in northwestern Myanmar are pleading for safe passage from two remote villages besieged by extremist Buddhists.
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