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Protesters carry Al-Qaeda flags during an anti-government protest after Friday prayers in the town of Marat Numan in Idlib province, Syria

Suspected al Shabaab gunmen abduct local officials in northeast Kenya

SYRIAN FOREIGN Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani (right) attends a news conference with Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Damascus last week. The new Syrian leaders have not fully adopted the Afghan model, though social media debates about their past still continue,

HTS are aiming to create Taliban-style Sharia government

By SALEM ALKETBI

Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada in what is believed to be a 1990 passport photo. Released by the Taliban, this is the only photo of Akhundzada in circulation, and has never been independently verified as authentic.

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders in Afghanistan

TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Turkey’s irredentist policies, from its actions in Cyprus to its growing involvement in Syria, highlight a policy of territorial expansion and ethnic dominance, the writer maintains.

How Turkey’s founding ideology shaped its oppression of Kurds and minorities

By MEHMET KUCUK

A banner depicting U.S. and Israeli flags is burned, as protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, rally to show support to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen December 13, 2024.

Houthis set to execute Indian nurse as family offers ‘blood money’ to save her

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Cast member Mark Ruffalo attends a premiere for the television series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, in Los Angeles, California, US August 15, 2022.

Mark Ruffalo called out for 'Islamophobia'

By HANNAH BROWN

A scene from the documentary series The Jewish Underground,

Halachic State vs Caliphate: How do Jewish extremists differ from Islamist extremists? - opinion

By Boaz Tamir

People gather over the Galata Bridge in solidarity with Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, following the first morning prayer of the New Year in Istanbul, Turkey January 1, 2024

‘F*** Sharia’: Turkey detains lawyer who criticized fundamentalist Islamic law online

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Social media apps on a mobile phone.

Israel must prevail on the social media battlefield - opinion

By EVAN NIERMAN

MUSLIMS, JEWS and Israeli security forces are present on the Temple Mount during Passover and Ramadan.

Muslims in mixed Israeli cities see higher divorce rates

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A day after U.S. forces completed its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, refugees board a bus taking them to a processing center upon their arrival at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, US, September 1, 2021.

Taliban mark two years since return to power in Afghanistan

By REUTERS

A general view outside the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan after an attack on it, in Tehran, Iran, January 27, 2023.

Azerbaijan arrests cell accused of working with Iran to launch coup

A woman walks after the morality police shut down in a street in Tehran, Iran December 6, 2022.

Iran's judiciary chief threatens to prosecute unveiled women 'without mercy'

By REUTERS

Pakistan's national flag flatters during a ceremony to celebrate Pakistan's 75th Independence Day, at the Mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi, Pakistan, August 14, 2022.

Terror cannot be used to impose Sharia law - Pakistan’s top scholars

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE

Muslim pilgrims pray around the holy Kaaba at the Grand Mosque ahead of the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca on September 21, 2015

On This Day: The Muslim conquest of Mecca in 630 CE

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF