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By Md. Kamruzzaman DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): A top UN official on Friday urged Saudi Arabia and India not to deport members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim community to Bangladesh but instead to grant them refugee status. “I am dismayed by Saudi Arabia’s recent deportation of 13 Rohingya to Bangladesh,” said Yanghee Lee, UN special […]

25th Jan 2019

Afghanistan: US airstrike kills scores of civilians

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 16 members of a single family have been killed in an airstrike by U.S. forces in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province, officials and local media confirmed late Thursday. Helmand Governor Mohammad Yasin Khan has condemned the strike and has called for an investigation. Meanwhile, the local […]

22nd Jan 2019

Afghanistan: Death toll rises to over 120 in suicide car bomb

By Shadi Khan Saif and Sayed Khodaberdi Sadat KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): The death toll in a suicide car bomb attack in central Maidan Wardak province has risen to 120, an official said on Monday. Sharifullah Hotak, a member of the Maidan Wardak provincial council, told local media the death toll — which includes personnel […]

15th Jan 2019

Afghanistan: Truck bombing kills 4, injures 113 in Kabul

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA):- At least four people were killed and 113 more wounded as a massive truck bombing jolted the Afghan capital on Monday, an official confirmed. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish told Anadolu Agency security forces have reached the site where […]

11th Jan 2019

Afghanistan: Taliban attacks kill over 40 troops

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 40 Afghan troops were killed on Thursday in separate Taliban attacks in six different northern and western provinces, local officials said. Mohammad Jawad Hijri, spokesman of the Takhar governor’s office, told reporters that the Taliban attacked a police station in Khwaja Ghar district killing seven […]

8th Jan 2019

Afghanistan: US airstrikes kill 4 civilians

By Sayed Khodaberdi Sadat KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): U.S. airstrikes killed at least 4 civilians in Afghanistan on Monday, a local said. Army regiment spokesman Mohamed Hanif Rezai told Anadolu Agency that the NATO-led U.S. drone strike targeted a Taliban camp in the Kurgan district of northern Faryab province. Rezai said 14 militants were killed […]

26th Dec 2018

Israeli warplanes strike targets in Syria from Lebanon

By Faruk Zorlu, Esat Firat (AA): Israeli warplanes flying over southern Lebanon fired missiles at targets near the Syrian capital of Damascus late Tuesday, Syrian state media reported. Most of the missiles were shot down before hitting their targets, although an arms depot was struck and three soldiers were wounded, according to the regime-run […]

25th Dec 2018

Afghanistan: Attack on Govt compound kills 43

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL (AA): Gunmen stormed a government building in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday and killed 43 people in a standoff with security forces lasting some eight hours. One police officer was among those killed, while at least 20 other people were wounded, according to the Afghan Health Ministry. The […]

17th Dec 2018

Syria: US coalition airstrikes kill 17 civilians in Deir ez-Zour

By Mohamad Misto and Adham Kako DEIR EZ-ZOUR, Syria (AA): At least 17 civilians were killed on Sunday when the U.S.-led coalition launched airstrikes at a mosque in Syria’s eastern Deir Ez-Zour province. Local sources told Anadolu Agency that the airstrikes were carried out in the Daesh-held Hejjin district on the eastern outskirts of […]

13th Dec 2018

Turkey: 7 killed, 46 injured in high-speed train crash

By Mohamad Misto, Burak Karacaoglu, Esref Musa ANKARA (AA) At least seven people were killed and 46 injured when a high-speed train crashed into a pilot engine traveling along the same rails near a station in Turkey’s capital Ankara. According to the latest inspections carried out at the scene, seven people were killed including […]

7th Dec 2018

Iran: Suicide bombing kills 2 in southeastern Iran

TEHRAN (AA): At least two people were killed, 43 injured, in a car bombing in Iran’s southeastern port city of Chabahar, Sistan-Balouchestan Province.on Thursday, according to a local official. Provincial governor Rahmdel Bamri told local media a booby-trapped vehicle attempted to enter a police headquarters in the city. However, the bomb went off at the […]

1st Dec 2018

US drops nearly 6000 bombs in Afghanistan in 2018

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA):In what appears to be statistical proof of evident upsurge in the Afghan war, the US announced to have dropped close to 6000 bombs in Afghanistan this year so far. According to the figures by the US Air Force Central Command (AFCENT), the US forces released 5,982 munitions […]

30th Nov 2018

Syria: US-led coalition strikes kill dozens in eastern Syria

By Mohamed Misto, Adham Kako and Ashraf Musa DEIR EZ-ZOR/IDLIB, Syria (AA): U.S.-led coalition warplanes struck a building used as a prison by the Daesh terrorist group, killing scores of people, including dozens of civilians, local sources told Anadolu Agency on Thursday. The coalition has continued to target the Hejjin district and surrounding towns […]

29th Nov 2018

Afghanistan: 10 dead, 29 wounded in bomb, gunfire attack in Kabul

By Sayed Khodaberdi Sadat KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 10 people died and 29 were wounded in a car bomb followed by gunfire in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, in an attack claimed by the Taliban, police said. Basir Mujahed, spokesman for the Afghan National Police in the capital, told Anadolu Agency that […]

25th Nov 2018

Syria: Civilians killed by Syrian Govt & US led attacks

By Ashraf Musa IDLIB, Syria (AA): At least five civilians were killed in attacks by Syrian Government forces and allied militias in Syria’s northern Idlib province, according to the controversial White Helmets civil defense agency on Saturday. Meanwhile, twenty civilians, including women and children, were killed in airstrikes carried out by US-led coalition in […]

21st Nov 2018

Afghanistan: Suicide bombing kills 43 people celebrating Prophet’s birthday

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): A suicide bombing at a religious ceremony in capital Kabul on Tuesday killed at least 43 people, officials and local media confirmed. Najib Danish, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, told Anadolu Agency the suicide attack targeted a private community hall, Uranus hall. He said a meeting […]

5th Nov 2018

US: Journalist Khashoggi’s sons plead for father’s body return

By Umar Farooq WASHINGTON (AA): The sons of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi delivered an emotional appeal on Sunday asking for the return of their father’s body in an interview with CNN. In their first interview since their father was murdered, Salah and Abdullah Khashoggi said that the past few weeks have been painful for […]

1st Nov 2018

Turkey: – ‘Khashoggi’s body disposed of after dismembering’

By Murat Kaya, Muhammed Enes Can and Basak Akbulut Yazar ISTANBUL (AA): Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s body has been disposed of after being dismembered, Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said on Wednesday. “Victim Jamal Khashoggi was strangled to death — in a premeditated way — soon after he entered the Istanbul Consulate of […]

28th Oct 2018

Turkey: 30 irregular migrants rescued in Aegean Sea

By Durmus Genc and Ali Balli MUGLA, Turkey (AA): At least 17 irregular migrants have been rescued in the Aegean Sea off Turkey’s southwestern coast, said security sources on Saturday. The migrants requested help from the Turkish Coast Guard when their rubber boat started taking in water off the Emecik district in the Mugla […]

23rd Oct 2018

Syria: US-led coalition strikes mosque deliberately in eastern Syria

By Umar Farooq WASHINGTON (AA): The U.S.-led coalition in Syria on Monday targeted and destroyed a mosque in the Deir ez-Zor province, according to a top pentagon official. Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning told reporters the mosque was deliberately targeted by U.S. forces because it was being used as a command center by Daesh. […]

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The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.