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By Ahmed Asmar ANKARA (AA): At least 51 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp at midnight local time Saturday in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian official news agency, WAFA It said Israeli warplanes targeted the Sam’an family’s home in the Al-Maghazi camp, leaving dozens injured. WAFA […]

4th Nov 2023

Gaza: UN chief ‘horrified’ by Israel strike on Gaza ambulance convoy killing 15 injuring 60

By Nadine Osman London, (The Muslim News): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “horrified” by the Israeli strike on a five-ambulance convoy, including one belonging to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. The strike about 6.5 feet from the entrance to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Friday, which killed 15 people and wounded 60 […]

2nd Nov 2023

Gaza: 1,000 Palestinian civilians killed, injured, missing from deliberate Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia camp

London, (The Muslim News): Casualties from Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip have risen to 1,000, according to the Ministry of Health. Israel used 5000 pound US made GBU 28 bunker-buster laser guided bombs to attacke the Jabalia refugee camp which killed around 100 Palestinian civilians. Early Thursday, ministry spokesman […]

9th May 2023

Palestine: 12 people incl women & children killed in Israeli airstrikes in residential areas in Gaza

By Hamdi Yildiz GAZA (AA) : Twelve people were killed, including women and children, and 20 others injured in airstrikes carried out early Tuesday in residential areas in Gaza by the Israeli military, working with Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service. The casualties were announced by the Health Ministry in Gaza. Also among the dead, […]

5th Apr 2022

Ukraine’s president forms delegation for talks with Russia

By Nazir Aliyev Tayfur KYIV, Ukraine (AA): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree Monday on the official creation of a delegation for talks with Russia as Ukraine alleges Russian troops committed war crimes in Bucha. According to a statement by the President’s Office, the decree was signed “to form a delegation of Ukraine […]

15th Jan 2022

UN sounds alarm over hate crimes in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia

By Peter Kenny GENEVA (AA): The UN on Friday said it is “deeply concerned” by recent incidents in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Serbia that saw individuals glorifying war crimes and convicted war criminals, triggering anxiety and tensions in communities. Liz Throssell, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said at […]

19th Nov 2020

Afghans devastated by Australian troops’ killing civilians ‘for sport’

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Afghans have expressed outrage over the latest revelations that Australian special forces killed dozens of civilians ‘for sport’ as revealed in an official secret investigation commissioned by the Canberra government. Australian authorities on Thursday finally released probe details into at least 39 incidents of civilian killings by their […]

4th Sep 2019

UN: Possible war crimes committed in Yemen

By Fatih Hafiz Mehmet (AA): Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Yemeni government and Houthis have violated international human rights laws in Yemen, the UN said on Tuesday. A report by the Group of International and Regional Eminent Experts on Yemen, created by the UN Human Rights Council, released the details a host of […]

20th Mar 2019

Somalia: Civilians killed in US airstrikes targeting al-Shabaab

By Andrew Wasike and Magdalene Mukami NAIROBI, Kenya (AA): The U.S. is killing Somali civilians in airstrikes targeting al-Shabaab terrorists, Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday noting it has evidence to prove it. The regional Amnesty International office in Nairobi, Kenya called the civilian deaths war crimes, adding that forensic investigation has […]

25th Feb 2016

South African Muslim lawyers demand arrest of Israel’s Peres

JOHANNESBURG (AA) – A Muslim lawyers association in South Africa has filed an official request with authorities to have former Israeli President Shimon Peres arrested when he arrives in the country this coming weekend for a fundraising event. “We have launched a complaint with the South African Police Services (SAPS), the Hawks [specialized police services] […]

22nd Nov 2015

Bangladesh executes two senior opposition leaders

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 Jamaat e Islami’s Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid and Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s high-ranking member […]

5th Oct 2015

Afghanistan: US Kunduz hospital bombing deaths increase to 22

ANKARA (AA): The death toll from Saturday’s bombing of a hospital in northern Afghanistan has risen to 22, operator Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said Sunday. “It is 12 MSF staff members and 10 patients, including three children, who were killed in the attack,” MSF General Director Christopher Stokes, said. On Saturday, MSF had said that at […]

26th Aug 2015

South Sudan: Soldiers accused of raping children

NEW YORK (AA): South Sudanese government forces have raped children and razed to the ground entire villages during its recent offensive that began in April in Unity state, according to UN experts. [West called South Sudan before its cessation from the Sudan as “Christian South” -The Muslim News] In a report to the Security Council dated Aug. 21 but made […]

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