At least 42 people were killed, including a senior Muslim cleric, and over 80 wounded in an explosion at a mosque in downtown Damascus on Thursday. A suicide bomber set off an explosive device at the mosque during a religious lesson being given by Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, a top Sunni Muslim preacher and long time supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, state-news agency SANA reported Thursday. ...
07:40 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Syrian rebels fully captured a northern town near the Turkish border on December 25 after weeks of heavy fighting and attacked a regime air base in a neighboring province, activists said. The air base is in Aleppo province, where opposition fighters have already captured three other large military bases in recent months. Rebels have also laid siege to the international airport in the city of Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital, and...
07:04 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Since Eid is just gone, it's still time to wish Eid Mubarak to all my readers. What's a better way to celebrate Eid than to ...
12:36 PM, Aug 21, 2012
I cannot imagine Eid without the nervous anticipation of the previous night. Nor the beginning of Ramazan without the nail-biting tension of not knowing. Does ...
12:11 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Hyderabad: During Ramadan, shopping for Eid in the walled quarter of Hyderabad does not end with the night. In fact, it picks up at night with the centuries-old markets doing business round-the-clock. As such, with only a couple of days left for Eid-ul-Fitr, marking the culmination of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, all roads in the city are now leading to shops, hotels, roadside eateries and the ubiquitous vendors...
01:00 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Kabul: Suicide bombers launched multiple attacks in a remote corner of southwestern Afghanistan near the Iranian border on Tuesday, killing policemen and shoppers buying food to break their daily Ramadan fast. A market bombing in northern Afghanistan brought the overall toll to 46 in the deadliest day for civilians this year. There were no claims of responsibility, but the attacks on opposite ends of the country - the provinces of...
02:37 AM, Aug 15, 2012
With the Olympics falling in the month of Ramadan, Muslim athletes are in two minds over fasting. ...
09:52 AM, Jul 26, 2012
Riyadh: Saudi authorities warned non-Muslim expatriates on Friday, the first day of Ramadan, not to eat, drink, or smoke in public until the end of the Muslim holy month's sunrise-to-sunset fast - or face expulsion. The Interior Ministry of the oil-rich kingdom called on expatriates to "show consideration for feelings of Muslims" and "preserve the sacred Islamic rituals". Otherwise, a ministry statement said, Saudi authorities will cancel violators' work contracts...
08:26 AM, Jul 22, 2012
Jakarta: Indonesia's communications and information ministry has shut down more than one million pornographic websites ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Minister Tifatul Sembiring said Wednesday that his office would target more sites in the upcoming month. The closed websites were all run from abroad, he said. "We will block more porn sites during Ramadan, though that doesn't mean that we will allow such sites to operate during...
04:09 PM, Jul 18, 2012
PCB had requested the ICC to allow it to host more than 3 T20s against Australia in August-September. ...
08:58 PM, Jun 06, 2012
New Delhi: Muslims across the world celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr on Wednesday, after the moon was sighted on Tuesday evening kicking off feasts and festivities. "The Eid moon has been sighted. Id-ul-Fitr will be celebrated on Wednesday," Maulana Mufti Mohammed Mukkaram, Shahi Imam of Fatehpuri Masjid, said. Eid-ul-Fitr marks the end of the fasting month of holy Ramzan. Across India on Tuesday Eid prayers were being offered at mosques. Jammu and Kashmir...
07:57 AM, Aug 31, 2011
Geneva: More than 2,200 people have been killed in Syria's crackdown on anti-government protesters since mid-March, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Monday. The previous United Nations toll had been between 1,900 and 2,000. "As of today, over 2,200 people have been killed since mass protests began in mid-March, with more than 350 people reportedly killed across Syria since the beginning of Ramadan," she told the...
07:37 PM, Aug 22, 2011
Kandahar: A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded in a vegetable market in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday evening, killing eight people at dusk as residents broke their daily fast for the holy month of Ramadan, authorities said. The motorcycle was parked at the market in the Dihrawud district of Uruzgan province, said provincial council director Amanullah Otaq. He said eight people were killed and dozens wounded. Uruzgan provincial spokesman Hamid...
01:10 AM, Aug 17, 2011
Dubai: Muslims in Qatar can pay their end of Ramadan zakat (charity) by sending a short message on their mobile to a telecommunication provider. The charity amount, USD 4.10 (15 Qatari riyals), is either added to the user's bill or deducted from the call balance, and transferred to a special fund that will give it to the poor and the needy. The service introduced in 2004 has been hugely popular...
11:54 AM, Aug 15, 2011
Amman: Syrian security forces killed at least 16 civilians in attacks on tens of thousands of protesters demonstrating against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad on the first Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, activists said. A six-day tank assault on the central city of Hama to crush pro-democracy demonstrations there has killed at least 300 civilians, the Local Coordination Committees, an activists' group, said, citing refugees from...
07:07 AM, Aug 06, 2011
Dubai: A special fatwa issued by a religious body here has permitted smokers to use nicotine patches during the month of Ramadan to deal with withdrawal symptoms, saying it does not violate the observance of fasting. The Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department (IACAD) here issues list of fatwas daily to help Muslims observe their fast in the right manner during Ramadan. "Nicotine patches, which can help smokers to deal...
11:37 AM, Aug 03, 2011
Beirut: Anti-government protesters in the Syrian city of Hama set up barricades and took up sticks and stones to defend themselves Monday after one of the bloodiest days so far in the regime's campaign to quell an uprising now in its fifth month. The protesters vowed not to allow a repeat of 1982, when thousands of people were killed in Hama after President Bashar Assad's father ordered a massacre. As...
01:11 AM, Aug 02, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Muslims in Kerala on Monday began month-long fasting and prayers with the commencement of the holy month of Ramadan of the Islamic calendar. The faithful congregated in mosques across the state for morning prayers marking the beginning of the spiritual season of fasting, prayers and charity. The community leaders had on Sunday evening declared the start of Ramadan in Kerala on sighting of the new moon at Kappad beach...
12:30 PM, Aug 01, 2011
Washington: President Barack Obama has clarified that his defence of Muslims' right to build an Islamic complex near New York's Ground Zero site of 9/11 attack, was not an endorsement of the controversial proposal. Speaking to reporters during a family vacation visit to Panama City, Florida, Obama reiterated the stand he took on Friday night at a White House dinner observing the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. "In this country...
02:44 PM, Aug 16, 2010
Indonesia is world's biggest Muslim country with more than 20 cr Muslims. ...
04:41 PM, Sep 08, 2009
