UNITED NATIONS (Agencies) U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon announced on Monday the launch of a four-person international panel to look into the May 31 Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that left nine people dead.

The US military is on target to withdraw all of its combat troops from Iraq by the end of the month, Barack Obama, the US president, said in a speech.

Rocket attacks on two southern port cities in Israel and Jordan have left one man dead and three wounded. One rocket exploded in the street in front of the InterContinental Hotel in Aqaba on Monday morning, wounding four Jordanian men, one of whom later died of his wounds, the government there said.

A global treaty banning cluster munitions has gone into force. The Convention on Cluster Munitions, which became binding international law on Sunday, prohibits the use, production and stockpiling of the weapon, which is blamed for killing and maiming tens of thousands of civilians.

MAKKAH MUKARRAMAH: Three-day conference of the Muslim World League has been started in Makka Mukarrama. The conference is being organized by the Muslim World League as part of commemoration of its 50th anniversary.

BAGHDAD (AFP) July was the deadliest month in Iraq since May 2008 with a total of 535 people killed across the country as a result of violence, according to government figures released on Saturday.

A number of prominent Kuwaiti scholars condemned an American religious group’s plans to host what they’re calling “International Burn a Quran Day”.

Note: About two weeks ago, a fierce incident took place at a Shia mosque in south east of Iran, Zahedan. Several states, organizations and personalities extremely condemned this fierce event. Meanwhile the largest “International Union for Muslim Scholars” of Muslim scholars also denounced the raid on Shiite mosque and damage of Sunnis’ properties after the […]

A US court has given the green light to 72 Iraqis to proceed with a lawsuit against a private contractor accused of complicity in the alleged abuse of detainees at the US-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

A report of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship has revealed that Muslim families have good relations with other Australians, and feel safe and happy in the country, but they are furious with the media for depicting Muslims as terrorists and criminals.