The U.S. is drafting plans to withdraw all troops from Syria within a maximum of 90 days. Two defense officials confirmed the move, following interest from President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Trump’s new national security adviser Mike Waltz visited U.S. Central Command in Florida. He met military leaders for briefings about the Middle East. The...
Billionaire Elon Musk has triggered a political crisis by taking control of parts of the U.S. government’s financial system. His “department of government efficiency” or DOGE has forced access to federal payments and personnel records. Musk has also claimed to have abolished USAID, the country’s foreign aid agency, without congressional approv...
A new report from the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reveals that nearly half of Muslim students in the state’s K-12 schools face faith-based bullying. The survey, conducted across 11 counties, found that 48% of Muslim students reported bullying due to their religion. Among them, 22% faced regular har...
Nearly 200 Harvard University students, faculty, and staff have filed discrimination complaints, alleging a hostile environment against Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims. The controversy erupted after Harvard Medical School canceled a panel featuring patients from Gaza that was scheduled for January 21. Among the complainants are 32 faculty, 3...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that he will not attend the upcoming G20 meeting in South Africa. His decision follows a growing dispute over the country’s land expropriation law. Its aim is to address the nation’s apartheid legacy of racially unequal land distribution. The law, which has not yet been enforced, allows the [&hell...
India is in talks with the U.S. after reports emerged of its deported citizens being mistreated. A U.S. military aircraft carrying 104 deported Indians landed in the province of Punjab on Wednesday. The deportees said they were handcuffed and shackled throughout the journey. U.S. Customs and Border Protection also shared a video of shackled mi...
Israel is pushing ahead with plans for what it has falsely called the “voluntary” expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, seizing on President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about the U.S. “taking over” the war-ravaged territory. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered the military to draft a strategy allowi...
The 2023 earthquakes impacted more than 13.5 million people in Türkiye and millions in northern Syria Muslim Network TV ANKARA, Türkiye (MNTV) — Two years after the deadliest earthquake in modern Turkish history, hundreds of thousands of survivors remain in temporary housing, struggling with harsh conditions as reconstruction efforts fall shor...
Authorities are investigating after a private plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines, killing at least four people. The twin-engine Beech King Air 300 went down in Malatimon village, Mindanao Island, on Thursday afternoon. The crash occurred in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, a Muslim-major...
Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki Al-Faisal has strongly condemned President Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza. In an open letter published in the newspaper The National, Al-Faisal rebuked Trump’s call, saying, “The Palestinian people are not illegal immigrants to be deported.” He emphasised that Gaza...
