10^th December 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the first public statement about the international Islamic political party Hizb ut Tahrir. “This organization was founded in 1953 in Jerusalem from one of your colleagues, a judge of the Shariah court. In its statutory fundamental documents, it directly proclaims the need to create a Khilafah (Caliphate) by seizing power and promoting its ideas in various countries of the world, and the Russian state is no exception. This organization operates legally in many countries

Al-Raya Newspaper: Prominent Headlines of Issue 268

On 3 January 2020, Iranian commander Qassim Soleimani of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad. The strike came just days after a US embassy attack by Iranian backed militias, during the violent protests. These protests were considered a retaliation to the previous airstrikes, which killed 25 Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq