Ambulances and police squads were dispatched to the Iskenderun district of Turkey’s southern Hatay province after an explosion shook the town center on Monday evening. The blast hit the town’s Fener Street, which was closed to traffic after the incident. Hatay Governor Rahmi Dogan said on Twitter that there were ...
The Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday stressed, via Twitter, that insulting 1.9B Muslims—& their sanctities—for the abhorrent crimes of such extremists is an opportunistic abuse of freedom of speech. It only fuels extremism. Muslims are the primary victims of the “cult of hatred”—empowered by colonial regimes & ...