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 […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced deep concern Wednesday about the “deteriorating situation” in Jerusalem and violence in and around the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement that Guterres is actively “engaged with leaders to do all they can to lower tensio...
NEW DELHI (AA): India’s top court on Wednesday stayed demolition of “encroachments” by authorities in the same area of the capital New Delhi where communal violence broke out last week. The bulldozers sent by the local municipality, which is administered by India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), arrived in the Jahangirpuri neighborh...
ANKARA (AA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday called for international action to end “barbaric” Israeli attacks against Palestinian worshippers as tension continues to flare up in occupied East Jerusalem. In a statement, the pan-Muslim grouping said Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha has “dispatched identica...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia is taking “resolute steps” towards dictatorship amid a deep political crisis in the North African nation, three political parties warned on Wednesday. In a joint statement, the Coordination of Social Democratic Forces, which brings together the Democratic Current, the Republican Party, and the Democratic Blo...
ANKARA – According to the Turkish National Defence Ministry, Turkish security forces have “neutralized” a total of 26 PKK militants since the launch of Operation Claw-Lock in northern Iraq. The operation successfully continues as planned, the ministry said in a statement. According to the ministry, the new operation was launched af...
ANKARA – Last week the Pakistani army conducted “retaliatory” strikes inside Afghanistan in Khost and Kunar provinces, allegedly against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)- a militant group. The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid condemned the attack. Shabir Ahmed Osmani, director of information said at least 41 people includin...
ANKARA – With the exit of Americans and the Afghan Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, there was a general sense of relief in Pakistan that its security woes along its western borders will be over. However, over the past many months, activity in this region has witnessed an increase, forcing Pakistan to conduct air raids inside […]
