The family of a Muslim boy who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Texas school officials and others, saying the incident violated the 14-year-old boy’s civil rights, prompted death threats and forced them to leave the United States.
At least 53 people were killed in a suicide bombing inside the Civil Hospital on Monday, police said. Many others were injured in the attack.
¬At least 10 people, including three children and four women, have been killed in air strikes on a hospital in northwestern Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province.
Muslim Americans have served in the U.S. Armed Forces since the days of George Washington. They have fought and died alongside Americans of all religions, races and creeds, yet Islamophobes like Donald Trump continue to question their patriotism.
A major Syrian opposition body has announced that rebels have broken a government siege of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
More than 300 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday halted a hunger strike after Israel prison authorities agreed to end “humiliating” body searches and return recently transferred prisoners, a rights group said.
Three more people have been killed by Indian security forces in the disputed region of Kashmir, bringing the death toll to 55 since unrest erupted following the killing of a local separatist leader in early July.
Human rights groups have condemned Israel’s approval of a new law allowing the imprisonment of children as young as 12 for “terrorist offences”, and which is expected to apply mostly to Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem. The “Youth Bill” allows authorities to imprison minors convicted of serious crimes such as murder, attempted murder or […]
A Russian transport helicopter was shot down in opposition rebel territory in northern Syria on Monday and all five crew and officers onboard were killed, the Kremlin said, in the deadliest single incident for the Russian military since its involvement in Syria’s civil war.
A new foundation is planned to be created to help finance the construction and administration of mosques in France, the head of the French Muslim Council has said, as the country’s prime minister and dozens of prominent French Muslims have called for action to stop “radicalisation”.