DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Two Rohingya refugee leaders were killed in a crammed Bangladeshi refugee camp, causing panic among the persecuted people, a senior police official said on Wednesday. Abu Taleb (40), a community head at a camp in the Ukhia sub-district, and Syed Hossain (35), another community leader of the same camp in the […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia’s New South Wales state on Tuesday took a major stride in criminalizing the display of Nazi symbols. The state parliament’s lower house passed a bill to ban the swastika, a symbol that is associated with the Holocaust and the crimes committed especially against Jewish people. The bill must pass the upp...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A suicide bomber blew himself up near an army convoy in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least four soldiers. The bombing, the latest in a fresh spate of attacks on security forces, took place in the restive North Waziristan region, which borders Afghanistan. The convoy was between the town of […]
NABLUS CITY, Palestine (AA) – Three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, according to the Health Ministry. A ministry statement said 40 other people were injured in the raid, including four in critical condition. The Israeli army said Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, a member of the Aqsa […]
Aftab Hussein, a Shia Muslim, and Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, a Sunni-run Muslim, both prayed in the same masjid. Both of their funeral services took place together at the same the Islamic Center of New Mexico on Friday, Aug 5th. Albuquerque, New Mexico which is a Sunni run mosque. Both were buried side by side in the same graveyard. Both [&helli...
(WASHINGTON D.C., 8/9/2022) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the arrest of a suspect in the shooting deaths of four New Mexico Muslim men and strongly condemned the anti-Shia hatred that may have motivated the killings. Four different Mu...
Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip killed dozens of Palestinians and wounded hundreds of civilians over the weekend, Palestinian officials said as Israel and the militant resistance group Islamic Jihad declared a truce late Sunday night. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Sunday that so far 44 people, including at least 15 childre...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Muslim world reacted sharply to the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex by Israeli settlers in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday. Calling the incident, a “serious violation of international law,” Saudi Arabia urged the international community to put an end to the escalation and provide necessary prot...
An Egypt-brokered deal between Palestinian factions in Gaza and Israel has come into effect at 23:30 local time, ending three days of cross-border hostilities. The weekend-long Israeli bombardment killed at least 44 Palestinians, including 15 children. More than 360 were wounded, according to the Palestinian health ministry. In Israel, three p...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel’s domestic intelligence service Shin Bet on Sunday recommended ending the military offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media. Israeli warplanes on Sunday continued airstrikes in the blockaded Palestinian territory for the third day, as death toll from the attacks soared to 31. More than 250 others were injure...
