• Tunisians inspire hundreds of Yemenis to protest

    Published on : 19 01 2011

    Hundreds of Yemeni protesters inspired by the Tunisian revolution took the streets to chant anti-government slogans in a university in Sanaa, Middle East Online reported on Wednesday.

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  • ‘Contextualising Islam in Britain’ Project Explores Contentious Issues

    Published on : 18 01 2011

    The views of leading UK Muslims on some of the most contentious issues affecting Muslims in Britain are to be compiled and published online in the second phase of a groundbreaking project being hosted by the University of Cambridge, working in association with the Universities of Westminster and Exeter.

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  • Bomb attack kills 50 in Iraq’s Tikrit

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    A bomb attack on a police recruitment site in the central Iraqi city of Tikrit has left at least 50 people killed and more than 150 others wounded, officials say.

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  • Iraqi soldier shoots dead US troops

    Published on : 17 01 2011

    An Iraqi soldier has shot and killed two US troops and wounded a third at a training centre in Iraq, after having allegedly smuggled real bullets into a training exercise.A US military official said the shooter was immediately killed by US soldiers who were running the training session at a US base in the northern […]

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  • Hariri asked to be caretaker PM

    Published on : 14 01 2011

    Michel Sleiman, Lebanon’s president, has asked Saad al-Hariri to remain as a caretaker prime minister until the country’s political crisis is resolved, according to Lebanon’s national news agency.

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  • Islamic Jihad: Gaza is under ongoing Israeli attack

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    GAZA, (PIC)– The Islamic Jihad Movement stated that the Gaza Strip is under constant Israeli attack that could escalate into a war, stressing that the Palestinian resistance has the right to defend its people against any aggression.

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  • Deadly bombs mar Biden’s Iraq visit

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    At least two people have been killed in bomb blasts in Iraq, shortly after the US vice-president arrived in the capital for talks about the future of American troops there.Three separate explosions shook the capital, Baghdad, on Thursday, Iraqi interior ministry officials said.

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  • Woman Convert Translates Qur’an into Her Native Hungarian

    Published on : 12 01 2011

    A Muslim woman has translated the Holy Quran into the Hungarian language.Halima Zsuzsanna Kiss says she converted to Islam after being impressed by Muslims co-workers.

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  • Australian National Imam’s Council Calls for Closure of Muslim Radio Station

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    Australia’s leading Islamic organization has warned that the radio licence of the Sydney-based Muslim station 2MFM, which has been accused of links to a “radical cult:, should not be renewed because it is promoting “sectarian fringe views”.

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  • ‘Hit men kill 240 Iraqi officials’

    Published on : 11 01 2011

    Iraqi Interior Ministry’s Under-Secretary for Security Major General Hussein Kamal says nearly 240 security men and intelligence officials have recently been killed by hit men.Nearly 360 Iraqis, including 240 high-level security officials, have been killed by so-called ‘hit men,’ a recent phenomenon that has taken root in Iraq, General Kamal added on Tuesday, the Iraqi […]

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