Syrian state television says the country’s army has begun operations in Jisr al-Shughur, a restive northern town near the Turkish border.The government said the operation on Friday aimed to restore security in the town, where authorities said 120 security personnel were killed by “armed groups” last week.

Israeli settlers torched a mosque in the West Bank on Tuesday, June 7, in a revenge attack to the demolition of a settlement in the occupied territory.It “indicates the magnitude of the aggression settlers unleash on [Muslim] holy places,” said Mahmoud Al-Habbash, the Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Religious Affairs, Ma’an News Agency reported.

Bulgarian Muslims will have to remove loudspeakers at Sofia mosque during Friday prayers, in another setback for locals that far-right party members attacked during the prayers.The ban came after supporters of Bulgarian party ATAKA or “Attack” attacked Muslim worshippers during Friday prayers in front of the Banya Bashi Mosque in central Sofia May 20.

Syrian state TV says at least 20 people have been killed and 220 more wounded after Israeli forces opened fire along the frontier to disperse pro-Palestinian demonstrators attempting to breach the border.

Syrian security forces have killed at least three demonstrators in the country’s northwest on a day more than 100,000 mourners turned out for the funerals of protesters killed in the city of Hama, rights groups say.

Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh is in Riyadh for medical treatment, after he was injured in an attack on his compound on Friday, the Saudi royal court said in a statement.“The Yemeni president has arrived along with officials and citizens who had received different injuries for treatment in Saudi Arabia,” the royal court said on […]

In a bid to lure Muslim tourists, hotels across the Middle East are replacing traditional Western signs of luxury with others carrying Arab and Muslim touches. “There is a growing need for Shari`ah-compliant hotels, which are sought after by Arab Muslim travelers,” Naji Morcos, director of Hodema, a Lebanese consultant company specializing in hospitality, told […]

Syrian forces killed at least 13 civilians in the town of Rastan on Thursday in one of the most ferocious military assaults to crush dissent against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, human rights campaigners said,The killings raise the death toll from attacks by tanks backed by troops that encircled several towns and villages in the central […]

DAMASCUS – In a new effort to assuage public protests against his 11-year rule, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued a general amnesty, a move dismissed by the opposition and the West.Assad’s amnesty covers “all members of political movements, including the Muslim Brotherhood”, state television said.

Erasing the remaining history of Arabs and Palestinians in Al-Quds (Occupied East Jerusalem), a new bill was proposed on Monday at the Israeli Knesset that requires Hebraizing all Arabic names of its neighborhoods. “In our battle for Jerusalem, it is important that we recognize the historic Hebrew roots of the city,” MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), […]