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The Taliban have banned families and women from restaurants with gardens or green spaces in Afghanistan's northwestern Herat province (Image: AP Photo)Taliban officials in Herat have pointed out that religious scholars and members of the…

KYIV: Ukraine's top security officials have ordered punitive measures against seven senior clerics, President Volodymyr Zelenskiyy said on Sunday (Dec 11), part of a crackdown on a branch of the Orthodox Church with longstanding ties to…

Ukraine is slapping sanctions on 10 senior clerics linked to a pro-Moscow church on the grounds they agreed to work with Russian occupation authorities or justified Moscow’s invasion, the security service said on Saturday. The…

<!-- -->The Orthodox Church in Russia itself backs the war.Ukraine is slapping sanctions on 10 senior clerics linked to a pro-Moscow church on the grounds they agreed to work with Russian occupation authorities or justified Moscow's…

As protests continue to sweep Iran since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police, recent videos circulating on social media show schoolgirls and boys knocking turbans off clerics on streets as part of…

BAGHDAD: With mattresses strewn about, food trucked in and protesters playacting as lawmakers, hundreds of followers of an influential Shiite cleric were camped out Sunday inside the Iraqi parliamentafter toppling security walls around the…