Female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a hospital, and a funeral in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in northern Nigeria that killed over 30 people, according to local authorities on June 30th.
A series of suicide attacks in Nigeria, targeting a wedding ceremony, a hospital, and a funeral, have claimed the lives of at least 18 people and left dozens more injured. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the explosions pic.twitter.com/YzPVKsVKoa
A court in Iraq sentenced one of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wives to death after she was charged with being allegedly complicit in crimes committed by the Islamic State against Yazidi women, Iraq’s judiciary announced on July 10th.
The criminal court in Baghdad imposed a death sentence on the wife of terrorist criminal Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for collaborating with ISIS and imprisoning Yezidi women in her home. pic.twitter.com/usnl3DnW5l
Police said on June 24th that a 14-year-old boy in Pakistan reportedly stabbed a man belonging to the country’s Shia Muslim minority to death for allegedly speaking against the companions of the Prophet Muhammad in Punjab province.
A 14-year-old kid named Rehan stabbed an elderly man repeatedly and killed him in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, Punjab after a sectarian debate. pic.twitter.com/BO0aAOjVue
An Irish woman who was barred from leaving Dubai in the United Arab Emirates after being charged with “attempting suicide” for reportedly suffering domestic violence was finally allowed to leave, adding she was “so relieved... thankful and grateful” to have returned to Ireland.
A Pakistani court sentenced a Christian man to death for reportedly sharing what it claimed was hateful content against Muslims on social media after one of the worst mob attacks on Christians in the eastern province of Punjab last year, his lawyer said, adding they will appeal the verdict.
The German government agreed on a draft law on June 26th that would make it easier to deport people for praising or promoting "terrorist crimes," the country’s interior ministry announced.
Amidst mounting reports of sexual violence being inflicted on women and girls held in detention in Afghanistan, video evidence of a female Afghan human rights activist being tortured and sexually abused by armed members of the Taliban has surfaced, believed to be the first direct evidence of such crimes occurring in the country since the Taliban took over in 2021.
The Russian Republic of Dagestan in the country’s North Caucasus region is holding three days of mourning following an attack by Islamic militants in two cities that targeted Orthodox Christian and Jewish houses of worship as well as a traffic police post that killed 20 people, mostly police officers.
Authorities in Pakistan have begun an investigation to identify and arrest members of a Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan that ransacked a police station, snatched a man held there, and lynched him after he was accused of blasphemy after he reportedly desecrated a Quran.
