Syrian rebels cut off Bashar al-Assad’s escape route
An eerie silence hangs over what was once a busy highway that cuts through the mountains and makes for Latakia city By Ruth Sherlock, Latakia province The Telegraph Abu Yassin, […]
Abbas to Ban: Bring Syria’s Palestinian Refugees Home
RAMALLAH, December 19, 2012 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday called on United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to help the Palestinian refugees in Syria, who are suffering from the bloody conflict there, to return to live in the Palestinian Territory. Abbas stressed the Palestinian position of non-interference in internal […]
International Halal body to be set up
RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABNEWS Wednesday 19 December 2012 Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Turki, secretary-general of the Makkah-based Muslim World League (MWL), will chair the maiden meeting of the general […]
OIC chief to visit Myanmar soon to address Rohingya concerns
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID ARABNEWS Wednesday 19 December 2012 Organization of Islamic Cooperation Secretary-General Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said yesterday that he would soon visit Myanmar as the head of a high-level delegation including OIC foreign ministers as part of efforts to stop the attacks against Rohingya Muslims. Addressing a press conference, […]
Digital library of 5,000 Dead Sea Scroll images
JERUSALEM — More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls — and thousands of years after they were written — Israel on Tuesday put 5,000 images […]
Qatar to produce $1b movie on the Holy Prophet
Epigraph: “And We (Allah) have sent thee (Muhammad) not but as a mercy for all peoples.” (Al Quran 21:108) By Habib Toumi, Bureau GULFNEWS.online December 18, 2012 Manama: A $1 […]
Pope tells Abbas of hope for Mideast solution after UN vote
Epigraph: “And already have We (Allah) written in the Book of David, after the exhortation, that My righteous servants shall inherit the land.” (Al Quran 21:106) Reuters | Dec 17, […]
Vice President at odds with Assad over Syria war
ZEINA KARAM | ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday 17 December 2012 BEIRUT: Syria’s vice president has acknowledged that the army cannot defeat the rebel forces trying to topple the regime and called […]
SYRIA: NBC reporter Richard Engel has not been heard from in four days
By DAVID MCCORMACK MAIL ONLINE NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel is missing in Syria, according to Turkish news reports. A Turkish journalist working with Engel, Aziz Akyavaş, is […]
Christmas – A Time to Reflect on Islam and Christianity and follow the teachings of Messiah
by Imam Shamshad A. Nasir (Baitul Hameed Mosque – 11941 Ramona Ave. – Chino, CA 91710 – ph. 909-627-2252 – Email: shamshadanasir@gmail.com – http://www.alislam.org – Fri. Sermon in English 1:30pm; […]
Ahmadis in Israel- Press Images
These images speak of positive history and contributions of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Israel even though the reporter has tried to paint them with a negative brush: Wikipedia: The […]
Jordan, UN to coordinate more closely on Syrian refugees
by Hani Hazaimeh | Dec 16, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Jordan and the UN on Sunday agreed to create a joint operations centre to coordinate the response to the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres said. Guterres added that the centre […]
Jeddah metro design ‘almost complete’
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 17 December 2012 Transport Minister Jabara Al-Seraisry said the design work on the Jeddah metro project is almost complete. “The designing of a light train project […]
Matthew VanDyke: US citizen held in Libya emerges on Syria’s frontline
American who fought with anti-Gadaffi rebels turns up in Aleppo and claims to be filming a documentary Share209 Katie Rogers, guardian.co.uk, Friday 9 November 2012 An American who fought alongside […]
40% of Israelis thinking of emigration: Survey
Survey by Haaretz: A new survey shows more than a third of Israelis want to immigrate to other countries due to economic problems and spiraling cost of living in the […]
Palestinian refugee camp in Syria engulfed by fighting
By Joe Sterling and Amir Ahmed, CNN December 16, 2012 (CNN) — Syrian warplanes bombarded a densely populated Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus Sunday amid clashes there, opposition activists said. […]
Iraq-Kurd deal offers hope, but challenges remain
AP | Dec 15, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES BAGHDAD — A deal brokered by Iraq’s president last week gives the central government and the Kurdish minority an opportunity to step back from a military standoff that has threatened to tip the country back into armed conflict just a year after […]
Freedom of Thought: Independent
The Freedom of Thought 2012 report: the non-religious are still being persecuted By Waleed Alhusseini (Getty Images) Like many non-religious people around the world, I use the internet to express my thoughts. Especially in a country where the vast majority believe in one religion, and do not like to hear any […]
Syria: Sunni Syrian rebels burn Shiite mosque: video
Story Summary A video posted on the Internet shows Sunni Muslim rebels burning a Shiite mosque in north Syria — a sign that the country’s civil war is spiralling into […]
Jerusalem patriarch condemns vandalism of monastery
Petra | Dec 13, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem on Thursday condemned an attack on Jerusalem’s Monastery of the Cross by Jewish extremists, the […]