Indian Muslims are facing a more difficult time now than ever before over religious traditions, said a leader of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. He compared the current persecution of Indian Muslims to that of 1857 when the British violently suppressed the freedom movement. Board General Secretary Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani urg...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US under the Joe Biden administration has approved yet another arms sale to self-ruled Taiwan. The arms sale “will help improve the security of the recipient and assist in maintaining political stability, military balance, economic progress in the region,” said the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) in a statemen...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli government on Wednesday lost its parliamentary majority after the withdrawal of lawmaker Idit Silman from the fragile coalition. With Silman’s withdrawal, the ruling coalition is left in a position of neck-and-neck with the opposition headed by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 60 parliamentary seats for ...
BAGHDAD – According to the UNICEF, more than 519 Iraqi children have been killed or maimed over the past five years from explosive remnants. “For the last 5 years, 519 children have been killed or maimed in Iraq due to explosive ordnance,” UNICEF said in a statement marking International Mine Awareness Day, jointly released with […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye’s National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Tuesday met with his Malian counterpart Sadio Camara in Ankara and condemned the latest terror attacks in Mali. The two officials held a one-on-one meeting along with talks with delegations behind closed doors. According to the Turkish Defense Ministry, Akar and Camar...
SRINAGAR, Jammu & Kashmir (AA) – In the narrow lanes of Srinagar, capital of Indian-occupied Kashmir, Mohammad Yusuf Muran, a deaf and mute walnut woodcarver, is busy crafting a sculpture of a lion and a stag in his 200-year-old workshop that has housed the finest craftsmen over many generations. Upon entering the workshop, one finds [&hel...
BAKU, Azerbaijan / ANKARA – Azerbaijani mine clearing experts have so far defused 55,000 landmines and explosive ordnance in regions liberated from the Armenian army in November 2020. Azerbaijan’s mine disposal teams continued to clear areas of landmines and live explosive devices in the Karabakh and neighboring regions. It is estimated ...
Chinese authorities in Xinjiang are restricting the number of Muslims allowed to observe fasting in Ramadan. The move has drawn heavy criticism from rights groups. For years, Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been prohibited from fully observing Ramadan in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region known to Uyghurs as Eastern Turkestan. That in...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish military killed four PKK members in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Monday. Turkish fire support units targeted the “terrorists after they opened harassing fire” on the Operation Peace Spring zone, the ministry said on Twitter. Since 2016, Turkiye has launched a trio of operations across ...
NEW DELHI – Hiba Sheikh is an Indian student from the Karnataka state who is pursuing her graduation degree. She could not appear in the practical sessions of her annual exams last month, as the college authorities refused to allow students to wear hijab or headscarf. “My internal exams were on March 3 … The […]
