By Dewan Syed Adnan Majid Which one event does the Quran describe as the Prophet Muhammad’s “manifest victory”? A. The Prophet’s re-entry into...
By Dewan Syed Adnan Majid Which one event does the Quran describe as the Prophet Muhammad’s “manifest victory”? A. The Prophet’s re-entry into...
Members of a Kurdish Peshmerga battalion show their ink-stained fingers after voting in the region’s legislative elections at a polling station in the...
DAMASCUS: Fighters allied to Al Qaeda tightened their grip on a Syrian border town yesterday, as President Bashar Al Assad claimed most of...
CAIRO: Egyptian security forces fought running battles with gunmen, in which a police general was killed, after storming a village near Cairo yesterday...
KHARTOUM: A Sudanese woman who refuses to cover her head under the country’s morality law appeared in court yesterday and her case was...
KHARTOUM: Sudanese police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who set government buildings on fire in the biggest city in the...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving is not mandated by any text in Shariah, the Islamic legal code which forms the basis...
DUBAI: A Bahrain court yesterday jailed five Shias for periods up to 10 years after convicting them of attacking a government building with...
WASHINGTON: Iranian President Hassan Rowhani, in a television interview, said his country is not seeking war but harshly criticised Israel for bringing “instability”...
TRIPOLI: Slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s son made a rare court appearance yesterday in a case highlighting the post-rebellion wrangle between Libya’s regional authorities...
AL ZUBEIDAT: Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said yesterday that peace talks could come to an abrupt end if Israel continues building settlements...
BAGHDAD: The bullet-riddled bodies of 10 young men were found in Baghdad yesterday, in a bleak reminder of Iraq’s brutal Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict...
MOSUL: The local authority in an Iraqi province handed its governor power to sign deals with foreign oil firms independently of the central...
SANAA: Attacks on journalists in Yemen, including an unsolved murder, threaten to undermine gains in media freedoms as the US-backed government enacts pro-democracy...
Doha: An official source at the Ministry of Finance said the ministry respects the decision of the Egyptian government (the governor of the...
Washington: Iran’s new President Hassan Rowhani has told a US television audience he is hopeful of a diplomatic breakthrough over Tehran’s nuclear weapons...
A Syrian family leaves its home in the eastern town of Deir Ezzor for safety yesterday. DAMASCUS: The Syrian civil war has reached...
