Leading Muslim cleric calls for govt action to prevent hardliners spreading radicalism online Konradus Epa, Jakarta Indonesia July 22, 2019 Most of Indonesia’s Islamic website are in the hands of […]
Source: Swiss Info By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia plans to tighten vetting of senior public servants amid fears that hardline Islamist ideology has permeated high levels of government, […]
BASHDAR PUSHO ISMAEEL Published 02.05.2019 A wave of deadly bombings on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter left 290 dead and over 500 wounded. The attack, as […]
Mar 27,2019 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) captured, finally, the last Daesh enclave in Deir Ezzor province in Syria, near Baghouz town, after weeks of stiff resistance by the […]
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 14, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Fighters from a coalition of rebel groups called “Jaish al Fateh”, also known as “Army of Fatah” […]
October 14, 2018 Madeeha Anwar FILE – Supporters of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) Islamist political party raise their hands as they listen to the speech of their leader during […]
VoicesThe Syrian army was trained to fight in hills – for the final battle for Israeli-occupied Golan, rather than the final battle for Nusrah-held Idlib. Golan is presumably still to come Robert Fisk in […]
Reuters International This content was published on August 22, 2018 A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at a mosque in […]
Isis benefits from the imbroglio over the ‘Beatles’ because its atrocities have always aimed to provoke an overreaction by those it targets. This strategy worked well for al-Qaeda after 9/11 when US judicial credibility was […]
The election has been threatened by violence and the looming presence of the country’s military. By Madeleine Ngo@maddietngomaddie.ngo@vox.com Updated Jul 25, 2018, More than 105 million Pakistani voters will decide […]
Reuters International This content was published on July 22, 2018 FILE PHOTO: People hold signs as they chant slogans against the participation of banned outfits to take part in general […]
Islamist groups threaten to deepen social divisions and further discriminate against minorities, women A vendor arranges election party symbols, including lions for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of Shahbaz […]
By Raed Omari – Jul 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES A Jordanian soldier keeps watch at the border between Syria and Jordan on Monday (AFP photo) AMMAN — There are hundreds of armed […]
May 08,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Hassan A. Barari The conference on “post-Islamism” organised by Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Centre for Strategic Studies last week did enrich our understanding on the changing dynamics of political Islam in general. Scholars, who came from abroad to participate in the conference, offered […]
By AFP – Apr 14,2018 – JORDAN TIMES A vehicle carrying Jaish Al Islam fighters and their family members, evacuated from the Eastern Ghouta town of Douma, arrives at the […]
Most reports estimate 1,500 civilians have been killed in the bombardment by Russia and the Syrian government, but many more – and the Islamist fighters opposing the regime – would have died without this once […]
I watched them stand beneath those shattered trees to pray. They had long scraggly beards, most of them uncombed, cheap track suits, dusty plastic sandals. I suppose it was a […]
BY AMINAH SUHAIL QURESHI Who will answer these questions? Show contempt or lack of reverence to God and you are a blasphemer. Speak anything sacrilegious in nature against a person or thing revered in a particular religion and you are a blasphemer. These two sentences define all the possible literal dimensions of blasphemy, […]
We only have death for IS militants, not trials or prisons: say Sinai tribes Taha Sakr November 26, 2017 3:03 pm Following the attack on the al-Rawda mosque in the […]
People gather at al-Rawda Mosque in Bir al-Abd northern Sinai, Egypt a day after attackers killed hundreds of worshippers.. (AP) Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Sunday, 26 November 2017 Al-Rawda […]
