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Syria opposition leaves Homs under truce deal
Hundreds of Syrian opposition members and civilians began evacuating the last opposition-held district in the central city of Homs Wednesday under a local ceasefire deal reached with President Bashar al-Assad's regime. The deal agreed at the start December, a rare agreement between the regime and opposition forces, will leave the city once dubbed the.. More -
Israeli forces kill Palestinian accused of knife attack
Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian youth in Hebron following an alleged attack on an Israeli settler and soldier in the city's historic center. An Israeli military spokesperson told Al Jazeera that the youth, identified as Yusri Meswadeh, stabbed two Israelis on Wednesday before being killed by a nearby Israeli soldier. The soldier.. More -
Myanmar government accused of denying Muslims fair trial
An international human rights organization has slammed the Myanmar government for denying fair trial to 12 Muslim men accused of receiving training from a so-called "Myanmar Muslim Army". Defense lawyers for the men along with security experts have claimed that the group does not even exist, suggesting that the government has invented a threat.. More -
Thousands of refugees rescued off Libyan coast
More than 4,600 people travelling across the Mediterranean in unseaworthy boats have been rescued off the Libyan coast, the Italian coastguard has said. Sunday's announcement came after the United Nations recorded the number of people crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe drop by more than a third last month due to bad weather. The 4,600-plus people.. More -
Attack kills governor of Yemen's Aden
The governor of Yemen's port city of Aden, Major-General Jaafar Mohammed Saad, has been killed in an attack along with five of his bodyguards. Unknown assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at Saad's car in the Tawahi district in Aden, state-run SABA news agency confirmed on Sunday morning. Earlier reports said six bodyguards were killed in the.. More -
Refugee boats to Greece persist despite winter's chill
Dozens of aid workers and volunteers wait on the shore, many of them with binoculars pressed against their faces, as a small dot in the distance gradually takes the form of a dinghy carrying more than 30 Afghan refugees. A Spanish volunteer lifeguard on a jet ski leads the boat to the rocky coastline safely, and the men, women and children pile off.. More -
Russia targets opposition, civilians in Syria
The Russian air campaign in Syria - purportedly launched as part of a counter-terrorism offensive against ISIS - has targeted opposition forces and civilians in areas held by forces opposed to Bashar al-Assad. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, as of Nov. 4 Russian warplanes carried out 1,631 flights over Syria and hit 2,084 targets since the.. More -
Lebanese army and al-Nusra Front conduct prisoner swap
The Lebanese army and Syria's al-Nusra Front have conducted a long-awaited prisoner swap outside Lebanon's border town of Arsal, where a group of Lebanese soldiers were kidnapped last year. The deal, brokered by Qatari mediators, entailed the release by al-Nusra Front of 16 Lebanese security officers - soldiers and policemen - in exchange for 13 prisoners,.. More -
Turkey releases air control warning to Russian jet
Turkey on Wednesday released a recording of warnings given to the Russian warplane later shot down on the Turkey-Syria border. In the recording, the Turkish Air Force command center in Diyarbakir warns the approaching flight to change course to the south. Addressing “unknown air traffic” in English, the message said: “This is Turkish.. More -
Russian jet shot down near Turkey-Syria border
Turkey says it has shot down a Russian-made warplane on the Syrian border for violating Turkish airspace. Two Turkish officials told Al Jazeera the plane was shot down on Tuesday by the Turkish military according to the rules of engagement. Reports said the plane crashed in Syrian territory in Latakia's Yamadi village. The Su-24 fighter jet, also.. More -
Russian air strikes 'killed over 400 Syrian civilians'
Russian air strikes in Syria have killed over 400 civilians since September this year, monitoring groups say. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the death toll from September 30 - when the strikes were launched - until November 20 stood at 403 civilians, a figure that includes 97 children. The Syrian Network for Human Rights.. More -
Belgium arrests 16 in late night security raids
Belgian security forces have carried out multiple raids across the country, arresting 16 suspects believed to have ties to the deadly attacks in Paris. Police targeted 19 locations overnight in the capital Brussels and in the city of Charleroi, 75km to the south, the federal prosecutor's office said on Sunday. "An investigative judge will decide.. More -
Trump confirms plans to for US Muslim database
Donald Trump has said that he “would certainly implement” a database system keeping track of all Muslims in the United States, according to a report in MSNBC. “I would certainly implement that. Absolutely,” Trump said in Newton, Iowa, in between campaign town halls. “There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases,”.. More -
Greek coast guard sinks refugee boat
A video released Friday appears to show Greek coast guards puncturing a dinghy boat with a sharp object earlier in November in the Aegean Sea. Video footage released by Turkey's Office of Public Diplomacy on Friday shows a sea vessel numbered LS-060, belonging to the Greek coast guard, approach the dinghy carrying refugees, reportedly on Nov. 12. An.. More -
Terror acts on Muslims on rise since Paris attacks
The Paris attacks have brought renewed attention to the situation of Muslims living in the U.S., many of whom have reported a significant increase in Islamophobia following the terror attacks in Paris last Friday. Many Islamic communities across the U.S. have condemned the attacks, stating that most Muslims exist peacefully within American society. 1... More
Hajj virtues
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School of Faith in Ten Days of Thul-Hijjah
The believing human self needs strong provocations in order to awaken whenever it is enveloped by laziness in...
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The Status of Hajj in Islam
Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam; Allah, The Exalted, ordained it in the ninth year after Hijrah (the Prophet's,...
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School of Faith in Ten Days of Thul-Hijjah
The believing human self needs strong provocations in order to awaken whenever it is enveloped by laziness in relation...
