ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Nigerian security forces rescued 35 people Sunday who had been taken hostage by armed gangs in Kaduna state. Kaduna Commissioner for Internal Security and Internal Affairs Samuel Aruwan said operations against gunmen were carried out in the Sabon Gero region of the state. Aruwan said 35 children and women were rescu...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Four people were injured when a wanted man blew himself up as authorities attempted to arrest him in Saudi Arabia’s western city of Jeddah, security authorities said on Friday. “One of the wanted men (Abdullah Al-Bakri) was tracked on Wednesday evening, and upon initiating the arrest procedures, he took the initiative to ...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran on Wednesday seized a vessel in the Persian Gulf, accusing it of carrying smuggled fuel, and detained its 12-member crew. Mujtaba Kahramani, a senior judiciary official in the southern Hormozgan province, said a ship “loaded with smuggled fuel” was seized near Qeshm, an island in the Strait of Hormuz. The operation […...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two people, including a soldier, were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region on Wednesday evening, an official said. The attack took place near a popular hotel close to the Hirshabele state presidency in the town of Jowhar. Roble Ahmed, spokesman for Hirshabele [&hel...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Two Rohingya refugee leaders were killed in a crammed Bangladeshi refugee camp, causing panic among the persecuted people, a senior police official said on Wednesday. Abu Taleb (40), a community head at a camp in the Ukhia sub-district, and Syed Hossain (35), another community leader of the same camp in the […]...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Nigerian army has arrested five men allegedly involved in the attack in June on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo state. Chief of Defense Staff Gen. Lucky Irabor announced the news at a press conference in the capital Abuja. On June 5, gunmen reportedly detonated explosives in the church, after […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least four people were killed and several others wounded in bomb blasts in southern Somalia on Tuesday, officials said. The explosions took place in the vicinity of Buula-haji near Somalia’s port city of Kismayo, the administrative capital of southern Jubaland state. At least 11 people – all civilians – were [&hell...
Aftab Hussein, a Shia Muslim, and Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, a Sunni-run Muslim, both prayed in the same masjid. Both of their funeral services took place together at the same the Islamic Center of New Mexico on Friday, Aug 5th. Albuquerque, New Mexico which is a Sunni run mosque. Both were buried side by side in the same graveyard. Both [&helli...
(WASHINGTON D.C., 8/9/2022) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the arrest of a suspect in the shooting deaths of four New Mexico Muslim men and strongly condemned the anti-Shia hatred that may have motivated the killings. Four different Mu...
NEW YORK (AA) – Another Muslim man in the US state of New Mexico was killed and authorities said Saturday they are working to determine if the murders of the four Muslim men in the past nine months are connected. Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina told reporters that a “young man who is part of the Muslim […]
