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By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 40 Afghan troops were killed on Thursday in separate Taliban attacks in six different northern and western provinces, local officials said. Mohammad Jawad Hijri, spokesman of the Takhar governor’s office, told reporters that the Taliban attacked a police station in Khwaja Ghar district killing seven […]

10th Jan 2019

US Muslim group sues Maryland for anti-BDS bill

By Umar Farooq WASHINGTON (AA): A Muslim rights group filed a lawsuit against the state of Maryland Wednesday to block a measure seeking to stop state agencies from doing business with companies, entities, or individuals who boycott Israel. Software engineer Saqib Ali was seeking to obtain a contract with Maryland to develop a tool […]

9th Jan 2019

Palestine: Israeli settlers destroy olive groves in West Bank

By Qais Abu Samra HEBRON, Palestine (AA): Israeli settlers on Tuesday destroyed 30 olive groves in the al-Hamra area, east of Yatta town, south of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, according to a local activist. A group of settlers chopped down the trees east of Yatta, Ratib al-Jabour, coordinator of the Popular Resistance […]

9th Jan 2019

Jammu & Kashmir: 2018 deadliest year in decade, 586 killed

By Riyaz ul Khaliq (AA): The year 2018 was the deadliest in the last decade in Jammu and Kashmir, as 586 people were killed in the region, according to a rights group. Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Societies (JKCCS) — a rights group based in Srinagar, the capital city of Jammu Kashmir — […]

7th Jan 2019

Palestine: Jewish settler attacks on Palestinians triple in 2018

By Esat Firat JERUSALEM (AA): Some 482 attacks were staged by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in occupied West Bank in 2018, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Sunday. The daily said that settler attacks targeting Palestinians tripled last year compared to 2017. “As of mid-December, 482 incidents had been reported, compared to 140 for 2017,” […]

5th Jan 2019

Weekly report on Israeli Human Rights violations in Occupied Palestinian Territory (27 Dec 2018 – 2 Jan 2019)

Gaza, Palestine, (The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights): Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (27 December 2018 – 02 January 2019) Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) A Palestinian with disability was killed in eastern Khan Younis. 25 civilians, including 5 children, a […]

3rd Jan 2019

Palestine: 312 Palestinians killed, 31,500 injured by Israel in 2018

By Qais Abu Samra RAMALLAH (AA): Israeli forces killed 312 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip last year, according to a Palestinian NGO on Wednesday. A total of 53 children and three women were among those killed by the Israeli army in 2018, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s Abdullah Hourani Center […]

2nd Jan 2019

China seals 3 mosques in southern province

By Fuat Kabakci BEIJING (AA): Chinese authorities have shut down three mosques in Weishan town of the country’s southern Yunnan province on December 29, media reported. The mosques belonging to Hui Muslims were shut for what the authorities said “illegal religious education,” the South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong-based daily, said in a […]

31st Dec 2018

Germany: Mosque in Duisburg vandalised with racist slurs

By Mesut Zeyrek COLOGNE, Germany (AA): An under-construction mosque in western Germany’s Duisburg city was attacked by unidentified assailants who defaced the building with racist slogans, according to a mosque official on Sunday. The attackers painted star of David — which is the symbol of Judaism — on the wall of Mevlana mosque, affiliated […]

30th Dec 2018

Palestine: 6489 Palestinians arrested by Israel in 2018

By Qais Abu Samra RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Israeli forces rounded up 6,489 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip this year, according to official estimates. A total of 1063 minors and 140 women were among those arrested in 2018, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Commission of Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs said in a […]

29th Dec 2018

Egypt police kill 40 suspected terrorists after tourist bus attack killed 4

CAIRO (AA): Egyptian police killed dozens of suspected terrorists in security raids, one day after the killing of three tourists and a guide in a roadside bomb blast in Cairo, according to the official MENA News Agency. Three Vietnamese tourists and an Egyptian guide were killed Friday evening in a roadside bomb blast that targeted […]

28th Dec 2018

Germany aims to control foreign donations to mosques

By Cuneyt Karadag BERLIN (AA): Germany wants to regulate foreign donations to the country’s mosques to “prevent the spread of fundamentalist ideologies”, a local daily said Thursday. The federal government has asked Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries to notify the Foreign Office prior to making any donations or government grants, Suddeutsche Zeitung reported. […]

27th Dec 2018

Nigeria: 13 security forces killed in Boko Haram ambush

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): The Nigerian army has said at least 13 members of state security forces — including soldiers and policemen — were killed in an ambush by Boko Haram terrorists in the restive northeast. The troops ran into the ambush along the Maiduguri-Damaturu road during an escort mission, army spokesman […]

27th Dec 2018

Palestine: Israel approve Jewish-only West Bank illegal housing units

JERUSALEM (AA): The Israeli authorities on Wednesday announced plans to build illegal hundreds of new Jewish-only housing units in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli media reports. According to the Times of Israel website, a Defense Ministry-appointed committee responsible for authorizing settlement construction has announced plans to build almost 1,300 new West Bank housing […]

26th Dec 2018

Israeli warplanes strike targets in Syria from Lebanon

By Faruk Zorlu, Esat Firat (AA): Israeli warplanes flying over southern Lebanon fired missiles at targets near the Syrian capital of Damascus late Tuesday, Syrian state media reported. Most of the missiles were shot down before hitting their targets, although an arms depot was struck and three soldiers were wounded, according to the regime-run […]

25th Dec 2018

Afghanistan: Attack on Govt compound kills 43

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL (AA): Gunmen stormed a government building in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday and killed 43 people in a standoff with security forces lasting some eight hours. One police officer was among those killed, while at least 20 other people were wounded, according to the Afghan Health Ministry. The […]

24th Dec 2018

Indonesia: Sunda Strait tsunami death toll rises to 222

By Dandy Koswaraputra JAKARTA (AA) – Death toll from the tsunami which hit Indonesia’s Sunda Strait Saturday night has risen to 281, according to the country’s national disaster agency. At least 1,016 people have been injured and more than 600 homes were damaged, as well as 60 shops and 420 vessels. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of […]

23rd Dec 2018

Indonesia: Sunda Strait tsunami kills 168, injures 745

By Dandy Koswaraputra JAKARTA (AA): At least 168 people died, 745 injured when a tsunami — likely triggered by a volcanic eruption — hit Indonesia’s Sunda Strait Saturday night, according to the country’s national disaster agency. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the National Disaster Management Agency, said in a tweet that the death toll […]

21st Dec 2018

Sudan protests spread to Khartoum; 8 killed across the country

KHARTOUM (AA): Demonstrations in Sudan spread to capital Khartoum on Thursday while at least six protesters were killed in the eastern city of Gadarif. Two other protesters were killed in the city of Atbara, 400 kilometres east of Khartoum, governorate spokesman Ibrahim Mukhtar said. State of emergency was declared in Dangola and Gadarif cities, after […]

19th Dec 2018

Palestine: Jewish settlers vandalize mosque in West Bank

By Qays Abu Samra SALFIT, Palestine (AA): Jewish settlers early Tuesday raided a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and vandalized a mosque. They also vandalized Palestinian cars and slit their tires. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that a group of settlers raided Yasuf village in Salfit province and spray-painted slogans in Hebrew on […]

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Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.