Feb 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The vacuum left by the recent fall of Daesh is being filled by new terror groups, who are forming and developing networks through existing criminal groups in order to raise money and transport weapons. This has led to an increase in […]
Residents slowly trickle back to the city after recapture from Daesh By AFP – Feb 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius Aphrem II, gives a sermon […]
Source: Princeton University Press By Robert Irwin, who is a senior research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and a former lecturer at the University […]
Source: IBTimes UK Newsweek interviews Caliph of Ahmadi Muslims on wars, persecutions and the meaning of religion today.
Source: Travel and Leisure The tomb was covered in well-preserved and rare paintings By LISA MARIE SEGARRA FEBRUARY 03, 2018 Archeologists have uncovered the tomb of an ancient priestess in Egypt. […]
Source: CNN (CNN) Islamic scholar and TV analyst Tariq Ramadan has been arrested in Paris and charged with rape, a judicial source told CNN. Ramadan, 55, was arrested on Wednesday, charged Friday and will remain in custody in France until his next hearing, the source said. The arrest of the Oxford […]
Source: BBC News The number of men dying from prostate cancer has overtaken female deaths from breast cancer for the first time in the UK, figures show. An ageing population […]
Source: BBC News China has urged the US to drop its “Cold War mentality” after Washington said it planned to diversify its nuclear armoury with smaller bombs. “The country that […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Simon Schama, Howard Jacobson and Natasha Kaplinsky among supporters of campaign to protect Jewish heritage Its gothic twin turrets and stained-glass window featuring a […]
By VOICE OF EUROPE 3 February 2018 Image: CEN TwitterFacebookPrintMore950 Oberhausen – A bitter experience got entrepreneur Sandra Seilz (42) the idea of a device that might protect women from sexual assault in the future. Whilst out jogging, Sandra was attacked by three drunk men, who tried to tear her pants off. The brave […]
In March 2018, a French government-appointed commission will outline what happened to more than 2,000 children at the hands of the French state between 1963 and 1982. These children, from the island of Réunion, a French overseas department, were resettled in rural parts of France where populations were in decline. […]
Crime scene investigators at work after a shooting in Macerata, Italy [Carotti Nest/EPA] A gunman has injured six African migrants in the Italian city of Macerata in a series of […]
By AFP – Feb 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES This photo taken on Saturday shows smoke billows from the site of a downed Sukhoi-25 fighter jet in the Syrian city of […]
This content was published on February 3, 2018 4:06 PMFeb 3, 2018 – 16:06 Knowledge is power: a classroom in the Philippines. (Keystone) Switzerland has announced it is stepping […]
By AFP – Feb 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES DUBAI — An independence push by southern separatists, who have seized the Yemeni government’s de facto capital, has laid bare deepening fault […]
Epigraph: And come not near unto adultery; surely, it is a foul thing and an evil way. (Al Quran 17:32/33) Say to the believing men that they restrain their eyes […]
Source: Straits Times BERLIN (REUTERS) – A mosque in northwest Germany may no longer broadcast its Friday midday call to prayer by loudspeaker for now after a local court upheld […]
The Qur’an rules out any notion of spiritual or cognitive inferiority of women to men By Muhammad Yunus, New Age Islam 03 February 2018 (Co-author (Jointly with Ashfaque Ullah Syed, Essential Message of Islam, Amana Publications, USA, 2009) This article follows up on Syeda Hameed’s article, ‘A Woman Can Lead […]
By Syeda Hameed February 01, 2018 I was a member of the National Commission of Women in 1998 when I met Daud Sharifa, who was building a mosque for women at Puddokotai, Tamil Nadu, since women were denied entry into mosques there. Last week, I read reports that a woman in […]
Source: Associated Press By JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday night that Israel and Poland have agreed to hold talks seeking to resolve the uproar […]