DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s foreign secretary has said that his country is strongly committed to establishing a peace process for Palestine and denounces Islamophobia. Masud Bin Momen expressed his country’s stance while addressing the 48th Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) he...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have endorsed Pakistan’s call for a joint probe to establish the facts surrounding the “accidental” firing of a missile into Pakistan from India earlier this month. In a resolution adopted Wednesday at the culmination of the two-da...
ISTANBUL – Educational institutions reopened in Afghanistan after a gap of nearly seven months. Officials of the Taliban-led interim government held a ceremony to mark the new academic calendar. At a function in Amani High School in Kabul, Syed Ahmad Shahid Khel, a Taliban official, said Islam considers knowledge, and understanding “as b...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Taliban’s decision to suspend schooling for girls beyond the sixth grade is “deeply damaging” for Afghanistan, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday. The decision came as Afghanistan’s educational institutions re-opened Wednesday with girls who were to begin education beyond th...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US’ Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Tuesday welcomed a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli President Isaac Herzog that took place in Ankara on March 9. Speaking at a UN Security Council session on the situation in the Middle East, Thomas-Greenfield said the US believe...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan / ANKARA (AA) – China is investing over $400 billion in nearly 600 projects across the Muslim world under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Chinese foreign minister said on Tuesday. Speaking at the meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) foreign minister in Islamabad, Wang Yi said Beijing has cl...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s parliament will convene on Friday to take up a no-confidence motion filed by the opposition alliance against Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party is struggling to maintain a narrow majority as his allies appear to be uneasy over continuing their support to ...
JERUSALEM – Visits by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed to Egypt for talks are a “message of protest” to the United States, according to Israeli media. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hosted both Bennett and bin Zayed in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. The […]
BELGRADE, Serbia – The first group of 212 of the 2,400 Afghans who fled the Taliban rule and took refuge in Albania have departed for the US. A farewell ceremony was held at the Tirana International Airport attended by Albanian Foreign Minister Olta Xhacka and US Ambassador Tirana Yuri Kim, among others. “I hope you […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The Turkish foreign minister has called for collective efforts to protect the rights of Muslims and ease the sufferings they face across the globe, including in Palestine, Kashmir and Cyprus. Addressing the Islamabad meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mevlut Cavusoglu touc...
