With tightened curfews and a shortage of essential commodities because of a Hindu economic blockade, Muslims in India-ruled Kashmir are bracing for hard times during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. "We have been waiting for the holy month of Ramadan like previous years," Reyaz Ahmad, from north K…

Israeli occupation forces on Sunday kidnapped four Palestinian young men at a roadblock south of Nablus city after ordering them out of their car and searching them, eyewitnesses reported.They said that the IOF soldiers forced all commuters out of their cars before rounding up the four citizens.In S…

The PA Awkaf (endowment) ministry in Gaza city has warned Wednesday of an Israeli plan to fire rockets at the Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan, urging Arab foreign ministers to immediately convene in defense of the holy shrine.The ministry also called for an international committee to ch…

Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank has nearly doubled this year, with 2,600 housing units being built in settlements, the Peace Now group said in a report Tuesday.Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank has nearly doubled this year, with 2,600 housing units b…

A U.N. investigation team said 90 civilians, including 60 children, were mistakenly killed by a U.S. bombing raid in Afghanistan's Herat province. U.N. Special Representative Kai Eide said a probe by the U.N.'s Assistance Mission in Afghanistan found "convincing evidence" that an aerial bombardment …

Finnish Muslims are looking for a plot of land to build a cemetery to bury their deceased, reported the Helsingin Sanomat on Friday, August 15.  "The aim is to find a larger area as a long-term solution," Pia Jardi, head of the Finnish Islamic Council's cemetery committee, said.The council wants to …

Russian warplanes bombed a military base and radar installation near Tbilisi early Monday, Georgia's Interior Ministry said. "There were two bombings. One at the Kojori military base and another on Mt. Makhata. As far as I know there are no casualties," Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Uti…

The Quds committee in the PA caretaker government's ministry of Awkaf and religious affairs has charged that the Israeli systematic settlement policy in occupied Jerusalem was American backed.The committee in a statement on Friday said that the occupied municipality in Jerusalem announced a new hous…

A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said.The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid…

The junta that took over Mauritania in a military coup promised "free and transparent" presidential elections in "the shortest possible period" in a statement read on national radio Thursday.The 11-member High State Council of armed and security forces led by former head of the presidential guard Ge…