SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – At least six construction workers, two of them non-natives, and a doctor were killed in the Indian-occupied Kashmir over the weekend, officials said. The killings were reported at a construction site in Gagangir area of central Ganderbal district. According to the officials, the workers were working on ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – The Nigerian army has killed 101 militants in the last week in operations that targeted Boko Haram, ISIS’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) and criminal gangs, an official has announced. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, confirmed that the military conducted operations across various...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Foreign Minister Melanie Joly on Friday put the remaining Indian diplomats in the country “on notice” that Canada will not tolerate any more criminal activity on its territory. The warning follows the expulsion earlier this week of six Indian diplomats after Canada’s national police force said there is ample eviden...
The United States has charged a former Indian intelligence officer who allegedly directed a foiled plot to murder a Sikh separatist in New York City last year. An indictment of Vikash Yadav was ordered to be unsealed on Thursday, court records showed. Yadav was a former officer in India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) spy […]
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said India made a “horrific mistake” by violating Canadian sovereignty. This is amid an escalating diplomatic row over the murder of a Sikh separatist in the province of British Columbia last year. It includes allegations of a broader campaign of threats and violence against Indian exiles. Testifyin...
A 28-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Islamic Society of Greater Philadelphia on Sunday night. She is facing charges of institutional vandalism, trespass, desecration of objects, and harassment. Philadelphia police say she ripped apart copies of the Quran, broke the front door window with a cane, and refused to l...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Some 150 students were arrested on Thursday during clashes with police in several cities across northeastern Punjab province over an alleged rape of a girl student at a private college in Lahore. Over 150 students were arrested during clashes with police on Thursday, and several others were injured in heavy tear gas [&he...
A local court in Bangladesh has issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina fled to India on August 5 on charges of crimes against humanity. The crimes were allegedly committed during mass student protests in July and August this year. The warrant was issued on Thursday by the International Crimes Tribunal [&helli...
A memorial was held in Plainfield, Illinois on Sunday for a six-year-old Palestinian-American Muslim boy stabbed to death in a hate crime. Wadee al Fayoume was killed in the town outside of Chicago on October 14 last year. He was stabbed 26 times. His mother Hanan Shahin was also stabbed but survived. They were allegedly […]
A 24-year-old man from New Jersey has pleaded guilty to vandalizing the Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University during the Eid-al-Fitr Muslim holiday. Jacob Beacher of North Plainfield admitted to the federal hate crime of damaging religious property, which included stealing a Palestinian flag and a charity box while damaging prayer ston...