An NBA-style basketball league for Utah’s Muslim community is gaining popularity. The Utah Muslim Basketball Association (UMBA) is set to host its first-ever All-Star game at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City. Founded by UMBA Commissioner Azeem Mohammed, the league has already organized tournaments, watch parties, and clinics for young Muslim...
Israeli forces stormed the town of al-Khader near Bethlehem in the West Bank on Tuesday evening. During the raid, local sources report that Israeli soldiers briefly detained and assaulted a 13-year-old boy. Since the January 19 ceasefire in Gaza, at least 380 Palestinians have been detained in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestini...
Palestinian detainee Reda Obaid has revealed shocking details about Israeli prisons after his release. The 18-year-old was among 110 Palestinian prisoners freed in a prisoner swap. He was arrested on August 21 and spent months in both juvenile and adult prisons. Obaid described severe beatings, malnutrition, and inhumane treatment. He contract...
President Donald Trump has banned the development of a digital dollar, pushing the U.S. further behind in the global digital currency race. Trump’s executive order, which was signed on January 23, prohibits U.S. institutions from issuing or using central bank digital currencies or CBDCs. The order argues that a digital dollar could threa...
Humanitarian aid is reaching Gaza, but Hamas says Israel is blocking critical supplies. Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem accuses Israel of preventing aid, including tents and rubble-clearing equipment, despite the ceasefire. He has urged mediators to intervene. Trucks carrying aid are entering Gaza through the Rafah border crossing. The ceasefire...
Three major federal employee unions have sued the Treasury Department for sharing confidential data with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The Alliance for Retired Americans, the American Federation of Government Employees, and the Service Employees International Union filed the lawsuit in a Washington, DC court on Monday. It a...
GENEVA (AA) – The global fight against viral hepatitis faces a critical setback following the Trump administration’s decision to pause foreign aid and to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO), warned the executive director of The Hepatitis Fund. Finn Jarle Rode told Anadolu that the decision exacerbates an already seve...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has channeled vast sums of money for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and LGBTQ programs in “waste” and “abuse” activities for decades, the Trump administration said. In a statement on Monday, the White House stated that “for decades,&#...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have signed an agreement to defer a $1.2 billion payment on oil imports by one year, according to an official statement. The deal was signed on Monday at the Prime Minister’s Office in Islamabad by Pakistan’s secretary of economic affairs, Kazim Niaz, and Saudi Fund for Development chief [...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel said Tuesday that it will send a negotiating team to Qatar this weekend for talks on the second phase of a Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement. A statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the team will discuss “technical details related to continuing to carry out” the agreement. The [&he...
