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By Ibrahim Saleh and Ahmed Qasim BAGHDAD (AA): The Iraqi army and its allies on Monday announced the recapture of five more villages near the northern city of Mosul, according to official statements. The assertions come hours after the army’s Joint Operations Command announced the launch of the second phase of the campaign — […]

31st Oct 2016

Iraqi army takes 2 more villages from Daesh

By Ahmed Qasim and Ibrahim Salih NINEVEH, Iraq (AA): Iraqi forces have captured two more villages near the northern city of Mosul from Daesh terrorists, according to an Iraqi army officer. Ahmed al-Shemari, a captain in the Iraqi army’s Nineveh Operations Command, said army forces seized control of the villages of al-Hokool and Ali […]

30th Oct 2016

Pakistan: 5 Shia Muslims killed in terror shooting during religious event

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): At least five Shia Muslims, including a woman, were killed and 11 others injured when gunmen opened fire on a congregation in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi on Saturday, police said. The incident, the latest in a series of sectarian attacks, occurred in Karachi’s central district, where over 50 people, […]

30th Oct 2016

Libya: Car-bomb kills 3 in Benghazi

By Moataz al-Majbari BENGHAZI, (AA): A car-bomb explosion killed three people, including a political activist, and injured 21 others in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi late Saturday, according to Libyan medics. Among those killed in the attack in the city’s central Keesh district was activist Mohamed Buqaiqis, who headed an anti-corruption body. Khalil Quwedar, […]

26th Oct 2016

Somalia: Several killed in suicide car bomb attack

MOGADISHU, (AA): Several people were killed in a car bomb attack Tuesday on a military camp of Djiboutian forces in Somalia, official sources told Anadolu Agency. The attack occurred near the town of Beledweyne, capital of the Hiran province in Central Somalia. Mohamed Amin, the province’s head of political and security affairs, told Anadolu Agency […]

25th Oct 2016

Iraqi forces capture strategic town near Mosul

By Jamal Badrani NINEVEH, (AA): The Iraqi army Monday recaptured from Daesh the Christian town of Qaraqosh near Mosul, according to an army officer. “The Iraqi joint forces have carried out combing operations in the town, which was totally evacuated of its Christian majority residents in 2014,” Mohammed al-Jubouri said. Qaraqosh is located about […]

25th Oct 2016

Pakistan: Armed militias raid police center in Quetta, killing 59

By Yusuf Hatip ISLAMABAD (AA): At least 59 cadets and guards were killed and 120 wounded Monday when gunmen attacked a police training center in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, authorities said. At least six heavily armed terrorists, wearing suicide vests, attacked the dorms at the police training college in the city of Quetta after they […]

24th Oct 2016

Iraqi forces take another 9 villages northeast of Mosul

By Ali Cevad MOSUL, (AA): Iraqi forces recaptured nine villages northeast of Mosul on a wide-ranging military campaign to retake the city from the Daesh terrorist group, according to a statement from the Iraqi military on Sunday. Joint forces from the army, police and peshmerga renewed operations at dawn along several axes and attacked […]

20th Oct 2016

Uganda trial probes killings of 2 Muslim scholars

By Halima Athumani KAMPALA, (AA): A trial court in the capital Kampala on Wednesday heard a forensic pathologist’s testimony about how two senior Muslim clerics were gunned down “at very close range” in 2013 and 2015, stoking tensions in the Christian-majority country. Cleric Hassan Ibrahim Kirya was killed in Dec. 29, 2013, while Mustapha […]

15th Oct 2016

US: 3 charged with bomb plot on Muslims, mosque

NEW YORK (AA): Three members of an anti-Muslim militia on Friday faced charges of conspiring to detonate explosives at an apartment complex where members of a local Somali community reside in the state of Kansas. “These charges are based on eight months of investigation by the FBI that is alleged to have taken the investigators […]

12th Oct 2016

Afghanistan: 14 Shia Muslims killed, 36 wounded in Ashura attack

By Sayed Khodaberdi Sadat KABUL, (AA): At least 14 people were killed and 36 others wounded when a gunman attacked a Shia Muslim shrine in the Afghan capital Kabul, authorities said Tuesday. Police also said two grenades had been detonated during the attack. Interior Ministry Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said one of the victims of the […]

8th Oct 2016

Yemen: 140 mourners killed, dozens injured by Saudi-led airstrikes

Yemeni security officials say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition has targeted a funeral hall packed with mourners in the capital, Sana’a on Saturday. More than 140 people are reported to have died and dozens injured. The funeral was held for Sheikh Ali al-Rawishan, father of Interior Minister Galal al-Rawishan, an ally of both the […]

7th Oct 2016

Pakistan: 5 dead, 19 injured in Jaffer Express blast in Baluchistan

Express Tribune & AA: At least five people were killed and 19 others injured on Friday when two bombs exploded near Rawalpindi-bound Jaffer Express in Machh area of Bolan district, Baluchistan. Earlier on Tuesday four Shia women were killed when assailants opened fire on a bus in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province. “The train was travelling […]

7th Oct 2016

Turkey: Blast near police station in Istanbul injures 10 people

ISTANBUL (AA): The suspected PKK terrorist who detonated a bomb-laden motorcycle that injured nearly a dozen victims in Istanbul has been captured, a security source said Friday. The suspect was caught with a fake ID card at a security check point in Aksaray province , the source added. Two other suspects in the car were […]

4th Oct 2016

Syria: Bombing turns wedding into funeral, 20 dead

Halit Suleyman ALEPPO, (AA): At least 20 people died and 55 others were wounded in a suicide attack that hit a wedding hall in civil war-torn Syria’s northeastern city of Hasakah, Syria’s state news agency SANA said Monday, citing police sources. The casualties include women and children, said local sources, speaking on condition of […]

3rd Oct 2016

Egypt: Car bombing kills 3 in Sinai

By Khaled el-Geyoshi CAIRO (AA): A car bombing killed three civilians in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, according to a local security source. A bomb-laden government vehicle blew up in the northern Sinai city of Arish, the source told Anadolu Agency. “Three civilians were killed and three others injured in the bombing,” the […]

2nd Oct 2016

Somalia: Car bomb blast kills 5 in Mogadishu

By Mohamed Adam MOGADISHU, (AA): Five people have been killed and six others wounded Saturday afternoon in a suicide car bomb attack targeting a Mogadishu restaurant near a Somali national intelligence and security agency facility. Banaadir — in which Mogadishu is located — local government spokesman Abdifah Hallane told journalists in a news conference […]

29th Sep 2016

Iraq: US to raise number of advisors to 8,000

By Arif Yusuf BAGHDAD (AA): Washington will increase the number of its advisors in Iraq in line with a request by Baghdad, according to an Iraqi government statement issued Wednesday. “The reason for the increase of U.S. advisors in Iraq is to provide the necessary support for the imminent campaign to recapture Mosul from […]

27th Sep 2016

Nigeria: 8 soldiers, 25 Boko Haram terrorists killed in Borno State

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, (AA): Eight soldiers and 25 Boko Haram terrorists were killed in two separate encounters in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on Sunday as government troops intensified operations to clear the insurgency from the region, according to the military. In the first incident, army spokesman Sani Usman said four soldiers, including an […]

26th Sep 2016

Iraq: Suicide bombing kills 8 in Baghdad

By Ali Jawwad BAGHDAD (AA): A suicide bombing killed eight people and injured dozens in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday, according to police and medical sources. A bomber detonated his explosive vest near a school in Al-Iskan district in western Baghdad, police officer Yasser al-Mostafa told Anadolu Agency. Health official Ihsan Radi said […]

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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.