Jan 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that outlines a peace process for Syria, and puts aside the dispute over the fate of Bashar Assad. The resolution aims at destroying Daesh’s and other terrorist groups’ sources of income. There is […]
Tribune India: You wouldn’t know where Qadian is unless you know what it stands for. For the record, the town’s streetlights are switched off because the Municipal Committee owes Rs 26 lakh to the power utility. It has irregular water supply for its over 40,000 residents. And its lone government […]
Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani The blasphemy law, as enacted in Pakistan in 1986, militates first and foremost against the Islamic principles of justice and here is why: if it is conceived as an Islamic law, is it subject to hadd? Five years ago today, Salmaan Taseer, the […]
Source: Huffington Post RIYADH, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it had severed ties with Iran over the storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, in a […]
By BEN HUBBARD and THOMAS ERDBRINKJAN. 3, 2016 BAGHDAD — A war of words between Middle East rivals escalated on Sunday, with the supreme leader of Iran warning that […]
Source: CNN (CNN)Saudi Arabia said Saturday it had executed 47 people in a single day, including a dissident Shiite cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, who had repeatedly spoken out against the government […]
Hundreds attend funeral of 17 Palestinians from Hebron National News Related Articles IOF break into Bethlehem, violent clashes break out PNN/Hebron This Saturday afternoon hundreds of people are gathering together in Hebron for the funeral of 17 Palestinians whose bodies were returned to their families yesterday by the Israeli occupation forces. […]
By Reuters – Dec 31,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A man carries an injured child amidst rubble near a burning vehicle in a site damaged from what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Assad in the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria on Wednesday […]
The executions were certainly an unprecedented Saudi way of welcoming in the New Year – if not quite as publicly spectacular as the firework display in Dubai which went ahead alongside the burning of one of the emirate’s finest hotels Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices 233 comments Saudi Defence […]
Source: Time Ahmed Rajib Haider was hacked to death in 2013 Two students in Bangladesh were sentenced to death on Thursday for killing a prominent atheist writer and blogger in […]
Ruth Gledhill CHRISTIAN TODAY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 30 December 2015 Asia Bibi is in prison in Multan in Punjab, awaiting the result of her appeal against her conviction for blasphemy. Asia Bibi, the Christian woman who has spent her seventh Christmas behind bars under death sentence in Pakistan for blasphemy, has […]
ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 1 January 2016 Tawheed (Islamic monotheism) is the greatest foundation of Islamic belief. In fact, a person is considered as Muslim if he/she accepts that […]
By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI, ASSOCIATED PRESS RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Jan 2, 2016 The Associated Press FILE – In this Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012 file photo, a Saudi anti-government protester carries a poster with the image of jailed Shiite cleric Sheik Nimr al-Nimr during the funeral of three Shiite Muslims allegedly […]
By Reuters – Dec 31,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A member of Iraq’s elite counterterrorism service flashes the ‘V’ for victory sign on Wednesday in the city of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, about 110 kilometres west of Baghdad (AFP photo) BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces may face a big […]
Hindustan Times © Provided by Hindustan Times Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will hold a high level meeting with security officials on Saturday evening following a terror attack on the Indian Air Force base in Indian Air Force (IAF) base in Pathankot district of Punjab early Saturday. The security counter-operation that […]
By Irfan Ullah Khan “She believed in me when the whole world refuted me and she attested to my trueness when the whole world accused me of falsehood. She offered me compassion and loyalty with her wealth when everyone else had forsaken me.” [Prophet Muhammad (saws): Narrated by Masnad Ahmad] […]
By IANS | 1 Jan, 2016, NEW DELHI: Indian Muslims have little fascination for Islamic radical groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda, say scholars and Muslim leaders agreeing with Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s assertion that Indian Muslims were not attracted to their ideologies. The minister, while speaking at a conference at […]
Source: The Siasat Daily Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama who is also a Nobel Laureate termed the Holy Quran as a Sacred Book which is a priceless Gift of God […]
Jan 01,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh We in this part of the world welcome all efforts geared towards fighting and then eradicating terrorism, exercised by countries from the region and beyond. While terrorism is primarily ravaging several countries in our region, it is also directly affecting several other countries […]
Jan 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Keep your eyes on the oil-fuelled Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Arab states in the year ahead, because they are just starting to experience a genuinely novel, almost existential, challenge that will test the quality of their statehood and national integrity as […]