Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he could not imagine the “nightmare” unfolded in Iraq, but still did not regret joining the US-led invasion.

A Ramadan tent has been opened just near the Moscow’s Zafer Mosque and will remain open during the last ten days of the Islamic fast. For its fifth anniversary, the tent’s opening day has become an important event, and many religious officials of Russia’s other faith communities have attended.

The military wing of Hamas has claimed responsibility for a shooting that killed four Israelis near Hebron in the occupied West Bank. At least one gunman opened fire on a car driving on Highway 60 near the Kiryat Arba settlement on Tuesday.

Barack Obama, the US president, has declared an end to the US war in Iraq and told Americans that restoring the country’s sagging economy was now “our central mission as a people”.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama marks the symbolic date of the end of US combat operations in Iraq on Tuesday, seven years after an invasion he opposed and at a time when the country still seems far from being stabilized.

A total of 122 ladies and three men, all expatriates from the Philippines, converted to Islam in Dubai, after a lecture by popular Muslim Filipino orator and preacher Omar Penalbar.

The long history of Islamic scholarship has just gotten a novel addition: a college in California that seeks to educate Muslim leaders. Zaytuna College held its inaugural classes Aug. 24 and aims to become America’s first four-year, accredited, Islamic institution of higher learning.

WASHINGTON: After being denied official construction permission back home, Muslim Ethiopians in the United States built the First Hijrah mosque and community center to commemorate the first immigration in the history of Islam and counter discriminatory practices by the Ethiopian government.

Speeches by certain public speakers covered by US media have been giving rise to Islamophobia in the Unites States, a senior member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says.

SANAA (Agencies) Eight Yemeni soldiers were killed on Saturday in an attack by suspected al-Qaeda militants on an army post in the southern province of Abyan and another was killed in an ambush in the province of Lahij, a security official told AFP.