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By Barry Ellsworth TRENTON, Ont. (AA): Six people are dead and a number of others wounded in a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, the facility’s president told media late Sunday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called it a “terrorist attack on Muslims”. There were a few dozen people in the Islamic Cultural […]

31st Dec 2016

Iraq: Twin bombing kills 24 in Baghdad

By Ibrahim Salih BAGHDAD (AA): At least 24 people were killed and dozens injured in a twin bombing claimed by Daesh terrorist group in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday, according to security and health officials. Two bombers detonated themselves near spare parts shops in Al-Sinak market in central Baghdad, police officer Ahmed Khalaf […]

31st Aug 2016

Kyrgyzstan: Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan attacked with car bomb

By Nezir Aliyev BISHKEK, (AA): A suicide car bomber crashed into the gates of the Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek on Tuesday, killing the bomber and wounding three people. The vehicle exploded after travelling around 50 meters into the embassy compound at around 10.00 a.m. local time (0400GMT). Deputy Prime Minister Zhenish Razakov […]

25th Aug 2016

Afghanistan: Terrorists kill 13 at American University of Afghanistan

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL (AA): A deadly 10-hour assault on the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) in Kabul ended early on Thursday leaving at least 13 people dead, including seven young students. A group of Taliban militants stormed the AUAF campus Wednesday evening. Located on a busy street in the western part of […]

24th Jul 2016

Afghanistan: 80 Hazara Shia Muslims killed in suicide bombing in Kabul

The Muslim News: Afghanistan is in mourning Sunday in the aftermath of killing of 80 Hazara Shia Muslims Saturday. Thousands of mainly young Hazaras were demonstrating peacefully in Kabul. More than 231 people were injured. Daesh has claimed responsibility for the kiling of innocent Muslims. “Two fighters from Islamic State detonated explosive belts at a […]

15th Jun 2016

France: French commander, wife killed in Daesh-claimed attack

PARIS / WASHINGTON (AA) – A French police commander and his wife were killed Monday in an apparent attack claimed by Daesh. The officer, who was named in French media as Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, worked as an assistant chief in the town of Les Mureaux and was reportedly wearing civilian clothes at the time of […]

21st May 2016

Tanzania: Mwanza city Muslims live in fear as 3 hacked to death in mosque

By Peter Saramba Ongiri MWANZA, (AA): Muslims in Tanzania’s northern Mwanza city fear for their lives following Wednesday deadly hacking of worshippers inside a mosque, head of a Muslim body said Friday. Imam Feruz Ismail, aged 27, and two other people were hacked to death Wednesday during the time of evening prayers at the […]

28th Apr 2016

Turkey: Suicide blast in northwest Turkey kills one, injures 20

BURSA, (AA): A suicide blast killed one person and injured several others at the entrance of a historic bazaar in Bursa in northwestern Turkey Wednesday, the regional governor’s office said. 12 people detained in several provinces in Turkey on the blast. According to reports, the blast took place near the historic Ulu Mosque, which is […]

26th Apr 2016

Iraq: Seven dead, 31 injured in bomb attack

BAGHDAD (AA) – A suicide bombing attack in Iraq’s capital Baghdad left seven people dead and 31 injured Monday. According to security sources speaking anonymously since they are not authorized to talk with the media, the suicide bomber detonated himself near a movie theater in Iraq’s Shia-populated Baghdad al Jadidah region. No group has claimed […]

9th Apr 2016

Somalia: Mortar attack kills three civilians in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, (AA): Three people were killed and 10 injured in a mortar attack in Somali capital Mogadishu late Thursday, an official said. The attack by suspected al-Shabaab militants saw bombs land in the city’s seaside Hamar Weyne district. “The shells killed three civilians and injured ten others,” Ahmed Othman Toury, the district’s mayor, told the […]

22nd Feb 2016

Syria: Daesh kill 140 civilians in Homs & Baghdad

By Mohamed Misto HOMS, (AA): At least 140 people were killed and scores injured on Sunday by twin car bombs that shook Syria’s central city of Homs and capital Baghdad according to local sources. Daesh has claimed responsibity for both bombings. At least four blasts struck the southern Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zaynab, killing […]

19th Feb 2016

US refuses to confirm YPG behind Ankara attack

By Esra Kaymak Avci WASHINGTON (AA) – The U.S on Thursday would neither confirm nor deny that terrorist group YPG’s responsibility for a deadly terror attack in Ankara a day earlier. “I’m not going to speak to specific evidence that others may be looking at or be talking about while, as far as we […]

21st Jan 2016

Egypt: Terrorists kill 5 policemen in Sinai

CAIRO (AA): Five policemen were killed in a militant attack in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula late Wednesday, the country’s Interior Ministry said. In a statement, the ministry said that unidentified gunmen had opened fire on a security checkpoint in the North Sinai city of Arish. “Five policemen, including three officers, were killed in an exchange […]

6th Dec 2015

UK: Police arrest man in London Tube ‘terrorist incident’

.LONDON (AA)- A man has been arrested after a series of stabbings at Leytonstone underground station in London Saturday evening, Metropolitan Police said. “We are treating this as a terrorist incident,” Commander Richard Walton, of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command said in a statement. “Police were called at 19:06hrs… to reports of a number of people stabbed […]

16th Jul 2015

Nigeria: 12 killed in attack in Borno state

By Olarewaju Kola MAIDUGURI, (AA):At least 12 people were killed late Tuesday night in an attack on a local community in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, a local chief and military source said Wednesday. The attackers – thought to be members of the Boko Haram militant group – assaulted Warsala, a community located on a […]

26th Jun 2015

Tunisia: 27 killed, 6 injured in tourist hotel attack

[Photographer: Ahmet Burak Özkan. GRAPHIC: Ahmet Burak Özkan] SOUSSE, (AA): An armed attack on a tourist hotel in Sousse, east Tunisia, left at least 27 people dead, including foreigners, and injured six others on Friday, the Tunisian Interior Minister spokesman said. The spokesman added that the ministry believed the number of casualties and injured could rise. The attack comes […]

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