Afghanistan: Bombing of mosque in Kabul kills 21, injures 33
India: Rights groups decry release of 11 convicts in gang rape of Muslim woman, murder case
Pakistan: 20 killed in bus-tanker collision in northeast
Egypt: 41 dead in fire at Coptic church west of Cairo
Tunisia: Tunisian preacher stirs controversy over verses regarding ‘coup’
‘News is not good’: Rushdie’s agent says after author attacked on stage in New York
Greece: Dep Speaker of Parliament advocates ‘necessity’ of spying on country’s Turkish Muslim MPs
Jammu & Kashmir: 3 Indian soldiers, 2 Kashmiri militants killed in shoot-out
Palestine: Four Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in West Bank
Afghanistan: 8 killed, 18 injured in ISIS bombing at Muharram gathering
Palestine: 44 Palestinians killed incl 15 children by Israeli bombing of Gaza civilian areas
Palestine: 29 Palestinians killed, incl 6 children by Israeli indiscriminate bombing in Gaza
Palestine: Israel bombs Gaza in unprovoked attack killing 15 incl 5-year-old child
Morocco, Israel agree to enhance security cooperation
UN blames Israel’s ‘coercive measures’ for Palestinian displacements
French gov’t takes flak over deportation decision against well-known imam
Palestine: Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces in West Bank
Lebanon: Hezbollah warns Israeli gas drilling vessels within range of its missiles
Bangladeshi nationals easy targets of human trafficking gangs
Pakistan: 25 killed in rain-related accidents in 2 days as monsoon wreaks havoc
By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, Myanmar (AA): Myanmar’s military has been accused of laying mines in western Rakhine state, an international human rights group said on Saturday, as some 420,000 Rohingya Muslim civilians have fled the violence in the country … Continued
By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, Myanmar (AA): An international human rights group on Friday called on the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting on Myanmar’s crackdown on Rohingya Muslims. According to the UN and rights groups, over … Continued
ANKARA, Turkey (AA): Bangladesh law enforcement agencies have illegally detained hundreds of people including opposition activists since 2013, and held them in secret without producing them before courts, according to a Human Rights Watch report on Thursday. Titled “‘We Don’t … Continued
By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, Myanmar (AA): Muslim residents in Myanmar’s largest city Wednesday protested the closure of their two religious schools as they have fewer place for worship in the month of Ramadan — the ninth and holiest … Continued
By Satuk Bugra Kutlugun YANGON, (AA): An international rights group accused Myanmar’s military Thursday of carrying out a campaign of arson, killings and rape against Rohingya Muslims in recent operations in troubled Rakhine State. A statement released by Human … Continued
By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, (AA): A commission of enquiry into clashes between the army and Nigeria’s Shia Muslim community was suspended Monday after the Islamic Movement shunned the proceedings. In December, violence in the northern state of Kaduna saw … Continued
By Max Constant BANGKOK (AA) – Twelve years after her husband was forced into a waiting car, never to be seen again, a newly elected Muslim member of Thailand’s human rights commission says she has made the fight against such … Continued
By Mainul Islam Khan DHAKA, (AA) – Bangladesh on Sunday hanged two well-known opposition figures convicted of war crimes during the country’s war of independence from Pakistan in 1971, depsite concerns that the legal proceedings against them were flawed. Bangladesh … Continued
Human Rights Watch: The airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition on a hospital in northern Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontiers, MSF) on October 26, 2015, was in apparent violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch … Continued
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.