JERUSALEM (AA) – The US has denied involvement in the drone attack on a military facility in Iran, according to an Israeli media report. Iran’s Defense Ministry said several drones targeted a military complex in the central Isfahan late on Saturday but there were no casualties or major damage. “Washington had no hand in the […]
ANKARA (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Egypt on Sunday, starting a tour that will also take him to Israel and the West Bank. Egyptian Al-Qahera News channel carried the news, without providing any further details. According to the State Department, Blinken will meet in Cairo with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, […...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US condemned on Friday the attack on a synagogue in east Jerusalem that killed at least seven people. “Our thoughts, prayers, and condolences go out to those killed and injured in this heinous act of violence,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters. “We condemn this apparent terror...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has strongly condemned a Danish far-right politician’s repeated act of desecration of the Quran, calling it a “senseless and deeply offensive act.” Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the Danish far-right party Stram Kurs (Hard Line), carried out the latest Islamophobic act in Denmark on Friday as he had d...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Middle Eastern countries have condemned Friday’s armed attack on the Azerbaijan embassy in Iran’s national capital of Tehran which killed the security chief of the diplomatic post and wounded two others. “We are shocked and saddened by the heinous attack against the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Tehran, in which th...
MOSCOW (AA) – The Russian Foreign Ministry has blasted the desecration of the Quran in Stockholm “as another provocative act of Islamophobia.” “These blasphemous actions predictably provoked a harsh reaction in the Islamic world, including the Russian Muslim community,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a news c...
MOSCOW (AA) – An unnamed person desecrated a copy of the Quran in front of the Russian Embassy in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen, the embassy said on Friday. In a statement on social media, the Russian Embassy in Denmark said a series of acts of this nature took place in Copenhagen, including one in front of […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A total of 585 students in Bangladesh committed suicide in 2022, according to a report that has been recently released in Dhaka. Of them, 340 and 106 were school and college students, respectively, 85 were university students and 54 were from madrassahs or Islamic seminaries. The statistics were revealed by the [...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AA) – Members of religious groups in Sweden have spoken out in support of Muslims after Rasmus Paludan, fanatical leader of the Danish far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line), desecrated the Muslim holy book under police protection. The coordinator of the Catholic Commission for Interreligious Dialogue in Sweden, Kaj Engelhar...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s foreign minister spoke to his Azerbaijani counterpart on Friday, condemning an attack on the country’s embassy in Tehran and proposing cooperation to investigate it, his office said. In a phone call with Jeyhun Bayramov, Iran’s top diplomat Hossein Amir-Abdollahian condoled the death of an emb...