Ex-Soviet Tajikistan has announced that all imams who received their religious training abroad will be sacked, a cull the Central Asian country’s government hopes will help prevent radicalization. “The Committee for Religious Affairs has initiated the dismissal of all imams at mosques who received religious education abroad,” a member of ...
Russia’s Reconciliation Center for Syria said Friday that the humanitarian situation in At Tanf, Syria on the nation’s border with Iraq remains extremely difficult, as refugees in the neighboring Rukban camp cannot get access to humanitarian and medical aid. The center added that the US established a military base in ...