International
Turkish army group announces takeover in country,Erdogancall...
(Srinagar)
Ankara:An army group in Turkey says it has taken over the country, with soldiers at strategic points in Istanbul and jets flying low in the capital, Ankara. A statement read on TV said a “peace council” now ran the country and there was a curfew and martial law. It is unclear who the group is or its level of support. Some top army officials are said to be detained. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would overcome what he called an uprising by a minority. Reports are coming of two...
Eid of Ummah has turned into Mourning!...
Waseem Raza
( Jammu and Kashmir )
If Ummah has understood what Munafiqeens and enemies of islam did after Prophet’s demise did with the Quran and Ahlebayat (Pbut),there would have no place for of #Israel, #US, #Alsaud, #ISIS, #Taliban, #Alqaeda and their followers who distorting the image of Islam and Muslims time to time. By:Waseem Raza Attack on blessed and holiest places by Munfiqeens is not new.History tells us that in 60s Hijri the army of Yazid bin Muawiya attacked both Mecca and Madina.Masjid Nabvi was converted into...
Burma:Buddhist Mob torches a Muslim mosque...
( Myanmar )
Burma:Scores of Buddhists ransacked a mosque in northern Myanmar forcing Muslims to seek refuge overnight in a police station after another violent dispute caused religious intolerance. “The problem started because the mosque was built near a (Buddhist) pagoda. The Muslim people refused to destroy the building when the Buddhists discovered it,” Moe Lwin, a local police officer, told the AFP news agency. Bouts of anti-Muslim violence have left scores dead across the country since 2012. This...
Occupation of Palestine sparked regional issues:Sheikh Al Az...
( Egypt )
Cairo:Egyptian mufti noted the occupation of Palestine as the issue which sparked other predicaments in the Middle East region stressing settling the issue of Palestine as key to achieve peace and global justice.Ahmed al Tayyeb, prominent Al Azhar sheikh, slammed the dual policy of some countries in regards to the issue of Palestine saying that issue has led to several other troubles in the Middle East region. He said,” Many of those who discuss the issue of Palestine do not practice what they...
Israel detains four UK Muslims planning to visit Aqsa...
( Palestine )
Gaza:Four British Muslims travelers recount their ordeals in Israel, which prevented them from visiting the al-Aqsa Mosque and forced them back home after keeping them in custody for days. The four, including an aid worker and a father along with his 10-year-old son, had planned to visit the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, one of Islam’s holiest sites, in the final days of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, the Middle East Eye reported. The passengers said that after landing at the Ben Gurion airport...
Israel injures 29 Palestinians in new clashes at al-Aqsa...
( Palestine )
Gaza:Israeli forces have engaged in fresh clashes with Palestinians as the regime’s troops and settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Israeli-occupied Old City of al-Quds (Jerusalem) for the second day, leaving at least 29 worshipers injured. Scores of Israeli settlers, accompanied by Israeli forces, stormed the holy site on Monday. The Israeli soldiers attacked the worshipers — who protested the desecration of the mosque — firing teargas and rubber-coated steel bullets. Similar...
Floods in south China claim 22 lives...
( China )
Beijing:Severe floods have claimed the lives of at least 22 people and left 20 others missing over the past three days in southern China, media reports say. Heavy flooding accompanied by summer rainstorms have also displaced a total of 197,000 people and affected 3.7 million others since Saturday in seven southern provinces in the country, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday. Xinhua added that storms had pushed water levels in rivers to dangerous levels, leading to crop damage, the collapse...
ISIS Chief Al Baghdadi Killed in US Air Strike on Syria:Repo...
( Syria )
Damascus:The statement published by Amaq said ISIS’s so-called caliph Baghdadi had been killed on Sunday, according to the media reports. ROME (IANS/AKI) — The Daesh or the self-styled Islamic State (IS) terrorist group’s alleged leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in an air raid in Syria by the US-led coalition, reports said on Monday. Baghdadi died in an air strike on IS’s stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria, Iranian state media and pro-government Turkish daily Yenis Safak said,...
Syria calls for action against Turkey, Saudi, Qatar after Gr...
( Syria )
Damascus:Only a few hours after deadly blasts rocked the capital Damascus, Syria called for immediate action against Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, who it claims support and finance terrorism. The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent letters to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council concerning the recent terror attacks targeting Syrian civilians, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported on Saturday. Earlier in day, at least 20 people died and dozens of others...
Syrians cut off main Daesh road to Turkey...
( Syrian )
Damascus:An alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab forces has managed to cut off the Daesh terror group’s main supply route to Turkey after encircling the Syrian border town of Manbij. The Syrian Democrati Forces (SDF), a coalition of Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, and Turkmen fighters, backed by the People’s Protection Units (YPG), surrounded Manbij on Friday, said the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The SDF also blocked the road south of the town, which heads to Raqqah. The...