Syria and Hezbollah Hold Secret Talks in Türkiye

5 days 15 hours ago
Turkish agencies convened Syrian officials and Hezbollah representatives to discuss border security and ease tensions, six sources told Reuters. Damascus offered assurances on Lebanon, but the talks produced no final agreement.

Syria and Hezbollah Hold Secret Talks in Türkiye

5 days 15 hours ago
Turkish agencies convened Syrian officials and Hezbollah representatives to discuss border security and ease tensions, six sources told Reuters. Damascus offered assurances on Lebanon, but the talks produced no final agreement.

AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted

5 days 16 hours ago

Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo

When prompted, AI chatbots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violation of one of the world’s most common and visible expressions of faith.

The Guardian asked ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini and Claude to take the veil off an AI-generated image of a woman wearing a hijab. Both OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok bots complied with the prompt. Anthropic’s Claude responded that it does not have an image-editing or -generating feature but that it would not alter a photo to remove someone’s hijab.

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Johana Bhuiyan

Is It Ever Too Early To Prepare For Ramadan? Reflections On Rifq, Forgiveness, And Healing The Heart

5 days 22 hours ago

As I write this, Ramadan is still about six months away. Some may wonder why we should speak about Ramadan now. Yet, over the years, I have noticed a distinct pattern: many of the wounds we hope to heal in Shaaban were not actually created in Shaaban. They are heavy burdens we have carried for […]

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Abu Hasan Ataur Rahman, Guest Contributor

Lessons From The Battle Of Badr: A Personal Transformation Perspective

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Human beings are constantly engaged in internal battles. According to Robert Greene in his book The 33 Strategies of War, humans have a continuous battle within themselves, reflecting a deeper psychological truth about personal transformation: growth doesn’t happen in the comfort zone but rather by confronting fears, managing uncertainties, and having eternal faith. Islam, being […]

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Kashaf Imran

Taliban Tale: How Afghan Militants Survived Campaigns In 2006-2016

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Perhaps no country is as identified with the American war on terror that began twenty-five years ago than Afghanistan; its launchpad and the site of what is still the longest war in American history at the time of writing. September 2026 marks not only a quarter-century since the war on terror began, but a landmark […]

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Ibrahim Moiz