Imprisoned Pal Action activist Zahra Farooque speaks out about police raid
Zahra Farooque, an imprisoned Palestine Action activist from the "Filton 18" group, describes her arrest in November 2024 when the police raided her family...
Al Udeid Air Base: America’s largest military installation in Middle East
Iran targeted Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar yesterday, reigniting questions over Qatar’s deep military partnership with Washington and the role of the base...
Who Are Afghanistan’s ‘Morality Police’? [Short Film]
Deputy editor of 5Pillars, Dilly Hussain, accompanies Afghanistan’s controversial ‘morality police’ on one of their shifts in Kabul. In this short film, Dilly looks...
Naveed Butt and the never ending plight of Pakistan’s disappeared
Thirteen years after her husband’s forced abduction at the hands of Pakistan's security forces, the wife of Engineer Naveed Butt tells 5Pillars his harrowing...
Britain has a Nigel Farage problem
Jahangir Mohammed of the Ayaan Institute argues that one man’s toxic politics continues to shape the national political conversation and that Muslims, anyone committed to...
Eyal Zamir – the Arabic-speaking war criminal appointed as Israel’s new Army Chief
Muhammad Siddeeq profiles Eyal Zamir, the new Arabic-speaking Israeli Army Chief accused of widespread crimes during his long career in the IDF.
Last week General...
Great disasters in Islamic history: The abolition of the Khilafah
Today, March 3, 2025, marks the 101st anniversary of the fall of the Khilafah, when the Ottoman Caliphate was officially abolished by the Grand...
After fall of Assad, Hama massacre survivors break decades of silence
Forty-three years ago, Syria’s former Baath regime carried out one of the country’s deadliest atrocities — the 1982 Hama Massacre — killing tens of thousands...
24 Hour Road Trip Through Free Syria [Short Film]
Deputy editor of 5Pillars, Dilly Hussain, documents his Syria road trip from the capital city Damascus to Homs to Hama to Aleppo to Azaz...
Pakistani government plays games with plight of the missing
Muhammad Siddeeq argues that the Pakistani authorities have no serious intention of dealing with one of the country's dirtiest secrets - the plight of thousands of people...
