TEHRAN, March 18 - Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been grilled by world leaders over her inaction regarding the persecution of the minority Rohingya Muslims in her country.
TEHRAN, March 11 - The UN's political chief on Sunday condemned anti-Muslim violence that has targeted mosques and businesses in Sri Lanka as he wrapped up a three-day visit to the Indian Ocean island-nation.
TEHRAN, March 7 - The United Nations human rights chief said on Wednesday that he strongly suspected that "acts of genocide" may have taken place against Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state since August.
TEHRAN, February 25 - An international organization of Muslim scholars headquartered in Qatar has called for a “public and official uprising” against a recent decision by the United States to move its embassy to occupied Jerusalem al-Quds in May.
TEHRAN, February 8 - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has accused US police of spying on thousands of social media posts of Muslims and African Americans in Boston.
TEHRAN, February 8 - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has accused US police of spying on thousands of social media posts of Muslims and African Americans in Boston.
TEHRAN, January 28 - A group of Muslims held a mass prayer in front of the White House in Washington DC, to protest US President Donald Trump's travel ban on the one year anniversary of its signing.
TEHRAN, January 27 - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has urged Muslim university students in Europe to understand the developments and expectations of the current era and prepare themselves for them.
TEHRAN, January 16 - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the US is overstepping its bounds in recognizing Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s “capital" and planning to move its embassy there, adding that the measures are in vain.
TEHRAN, January 10 - Myanmar’s military has admitted its security forces and Buddhist villagers killed 10 Rohingya Muslims whose bodies were found in a mass grave in a village in troubled Rakhine state.
TEHRAN, December 26 -Iranian mission to the UN called on Myanmar to deal with unresolved problems of its Muslims and restore revoked citizenship rights of them.
TEHRAN, December 22 - A quarter of Rohingya children under the age of five who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar suffer from potentially life-threatening levels of malnutrition, the United Nations said on Friday.
TEHRAN, December 14 - The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders says at least 6,700 members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority group were killed in state-sponsored violence in Myanmar only in a period of one month beginning on August 25.
TEHRAN, December 13 - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) convenes an urgent summit in Istanbul on Washington’s contentious declaration on Jerusalem al-Quds, with the Turkish foreign minister urging Muslim nations to respond by pressing the world for the recognition of the city as the capital of a Palestinian state.
TEHRAN, December 8 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in northeastern Greece Friday to meet with members of the country's Muslim minority on the second day of an official visit to the country that saw tensions in bilateral relations resurface.
TEHRAN, December 7 - Rohingya refugees continue to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh even though both countries set up a timetable last month to allow them to start to return home, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, November 28 - Pope Francis, who is on a historic visit to Myanmar, has called for “justice” and respect for the human rights of ethnic groups, a thinly-veiled reference to the minority Muslim Rohingya who have been facing state-sponsored violence in the Southeast Asian country.
TEHRAN, November 27 - Pope Francis is in Myanmar for talks with its leaders against the backdrop of a government-backed ethnic cleansing campaign underway against the country’s minority Rohingya Muslims.
TEHRAN, November 11 -The idea of ‘moderate Islam’ was invented by the West and is being used to weaken the ancient religion, Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan has said in reference to Saudi Arabia’s reforms, while also lashing out at the EU’s “discrimination” of Muslims.