Shia parade file photo during Ashura. Photo taken from Telegraph UK Gunmen shot dead at least five people in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province on Tuesday in an attack on Shia Muslims during one of their most important religious festivals, the state news agency SPA reported. Nine people were wounded by the unidentified attackers late on […]

Israeli security forces stand guard as Palestinian Muslim worshippers perform traditional Friday prayers on a street outside the Old City in east Jerusalem on October 31, 2014. AFP Israeli police deployed heavily around Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound as it reopened on Friday for Muslim prayers after a rare closure during clashes over the killing […]

People march as they hold a large Palestinian flag during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the ”largest Palestinian flag”, in the West Bank city of Ramallah Oct 28, 2014. Sweden has officially recognised the State of Palestine in a major move that the long-term European Union member believes “will facilitate a […]

The Iranian woman who was executed for murdering a man has requested her mother to ensure the donation of her organs. 26-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari was sentenced on Saturday, reports the Slatest. According to the report, she recorded the voice message for her mother in April. In her message, she said: “I don’t want to rot […]

Bangladesh has said ‘no’ to the United States request to join the military campaign against Islamic State or IS, the radical Sunni group active in Iraq and Syria. Rejecting Washington’s proposal, Bangladesh has clearly stated that Bangladesh would not take part in any military campaign, though if any UN humanitarian assistance programme  was started in […]

 Five Bangladesh nationals, all hailing from Cox’s Bazar district, were killed and two others suffered wounds in a road accident in Makkah, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Bangladesh Ambassador in Riyadh M Shahidul Islam confirmed UNB over phone about the casualties in the accident. The Bangladeshis were killed in the accident when two passenger vehicles hit […]

Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said on Friday, saying it was the first time that the militant group had taken to the air. The group, which has seized land in Syria and Iraq, […]

Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said on Thursday, as US-led air strikes failed to halt their advance and Turkish forces nearby looked on without intervening. With Washington ruling out a ground operation in Syria, Turkey described as unrealistic any expectation that it […]

 Kurdish fighters are engaged in fierce gun battles with Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian border town of Kobane, as US-led coalition air strikes continue. In its latest report, the US Central Command said six air strikes had destroyed IS weaponry around Kobane, reports the BBC online. An official inside Kobane said the Kurdish forces […]

1. Islamic State fighters carry their weapons during a parade at the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, near the border with Turkey January 2, 2014. Photo: Reuters In its campaign across northern Syria and Iraq, the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has been using ammunition from the United States and other countries that have been […]

Her interview with CNN is the first time she has ever told anyone her story The petite 25-year-old tentatively opens the door to the hotel room where we’ve agreed to meet. Her face is covered, but her body language betrays her anxiety. She slowly lifts her niqab, revealing her young, heart-shaped face. Her large brown […]

Muslim pilgrims pray as they join one of the Hajj rituals on Mount Arafat near Mecca. Photo: AFP Tears flowed and prayers filled the air as the annual Muslim hajj by about 1.4 million believers from around the world reached its zenith on a vast plain in western Saudi Arabia on Friday. “I am now […]