JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli security officers on Friday morning attacked journalists covering clashes at Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem. The officers were caught on Anadolu Agency Video News (AAVN) camera rushing at cameramen outside the mosque who were filming some officers carrying a seriously injured man. The AAVN cameraman running away from the p...
ANKARA (AA) – Two senior PKK members were killed in northern Syria, Turkish security sources said Friday. In an operation led by Turkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), Rodin Abdulkadir Muhammed and Ranya Henan of the PKK operating in the Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) region of Syria were killed, said the sources. Rodin Abdulkadir Muh...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli police once again stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in East Jerusalem on Friday, sparking clashes with Palestinians in which 31 people were injured. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its crews responded to 31 injured people, two of them seriously hurt. It also said 14 injured were […...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Dozens of people were killed in the northeastern Kunduz province of Afghanistan as an explosion struck a mosque shortly after the Friday prayers. Taliban’s interim government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said a total of 33 people, including children, were killed and 43 others were wounded by the blast and ...
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth who was shot earlier this month by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank died on Friday, Palestinian media reported. The Palestinian news agency WAFA said 20-year-old Ibrahim Lebedi was seriously wounded when Israeli forces raided the town of Al-Yamun near the city of Jenin in the northern [&helli...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye has dismissed Iraq’s “baseless” objections to Operation Claw-Lock, Ankara’s latest cross-border operation against the PKK. Baghdad’s charge d’affaires was summoned to the Turkish Foreign Ministry and told in clear terms that Turkiye is well within its rights to act against the PKK that “has been targeting our country from...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Muslim Americans gave an estimated $1.8 billion in charity in 2021, according to a report. The average Muslim gave $2,070 in what is known as ‘Zakat’_ compulsory charity, which is one of the five pillars of Islam. The findings were part of the report released last week by the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative [...
TRENTON, Canada – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has often emphasized that diversity is Canada’s strength. However, Islamophobia continues to be on the rise in the country. The 9/11 attack on the US had profound effects in Canada, fanning the flames of Islamophobia. In 2017 the Quebec mosque attack exposed the extent of Islamophobia...
JERUSALEM (AA) – More than 700 Israeli settlers forced their way into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday, according to a Palestinian agency. In a statement, the Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department, which oversees the holy sites in Jerusalem, said 762 settlers stormed the site and stayed there for about ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least five people were killed and many others injured in a blast that hit a mosque in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, local media reported. The explosion occurred at the Seh Dokan mosque located in a busy area of Mazar-e-Sharif, Tolo News quoted sources as saying. Quoting an official from the local […]