HATAY, Türkiye (AA) – Four people were rescued from the debris of a destroyed apartment building in Hatay province 72 hours after devastating quakes hit southern Türkiye. Five-year-old Hazal and her mother Betul Guner were rescued by Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority and IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation search...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – The first batch of 41 families who were forced to flee their homes in 1993 when Armenian soldiers occupied their village in Zengilan, Azerbaijan’s southwest region, have begun to return home. A group of 60 people, or 10 families, returned their homes in the Agali village, which is located on the […]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) – A delegation of British Sikh soldiers which visited Pakistan this week appreciated its efforts to preserve the two most holy sites of Sikhism. The two most revered shrines of the Sikh religion are Nankana Sahib, the place where Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion, was born, and Kartarpur, where […]
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Dozens of Afghan women wearing thick green shawls were married off in a mass wedding in Kabul on Monday in a ceremony attended by hundreds of guests including Taliban fighters. Marriage is a costly affair in deeply impoverished Afghanistan, traditionally involving huge dowries, expensive gifts and lavish parties. Hist...
An American college student and a group of Uyghur researchers have created an Uyghur version of the braille alphabet. The development comes at a time when the Chinese government is working to eradicate the Uyghur language in China’s western Xinjiang region. Harris Mowbray, an undergraduate international relations student at the American Univer...
The Taliban’s acting minister for higher education announced Monday that some public universities in Afghanistan will reopen today. Shaikh Abdul Baqi Haqqani said in a news release that state universities in warmer regions of the country will resume classes while those in colder regions will reopen Feb. 26. Haqqani said exams will be held thre...
Iraqi national Adam Muhammed has begun his journey to Hajj by foot. The 25-year-old started his trek from London on Aug. 1 and hopes to reach Makkah by July. He has already reached Istanbul in Turkey. Adam is accompanied by a dog he found in Serbia and a trolley he uses to carry his supplies. […]
Facing discrimination from other soldiers after his conversion to Islam and other challenges, Army Colonel Khalid Shabazz was ready to quit the military. But a Christian army chaplain encouraged him to stay. Now he is a chaplain himself preaching on TikTok with messages from the Quran and the Bible to roughly 43,000 followers. Shabazz is [&h...
