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Residents in besieged Syrian town forced to eat insects, plants to avoid starvation Agencies | 26 Rabi ul Awwal/07January 2015 Up to 40,000 civilians are slowly starving to death in the Syrian town of Madaya, activists have warned, after six months under a punishing siege. Encircled by land mines and …

New York Times and Agencies | Something drove Ishaq Khalil Hassan, 28, into the Mediterranean last week, to walk naked in the shallow surf, to attempt what has become all but impossible for Palestinians: an escape from the Gaza Strip. Palestinian officials insisted that Mr. Hassan, who tried to wade …

Rashida Ntotela | 10 Rabi ul Awwal 1437/22 December 2015 Since 2002, over 1500 volunteers from across the world have literally put their lives on the line for Palestinians, themselves perpetually in much more danger – acting as human shields in the name of Islam and brotherhood. This week, Soweto …

Rashida Ntotela | 05 Rabi ul Awwal 1437/17 December 2015 Abducted and sold for a bounty to the US, Shaker Aamer endured a pain like no other in the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. 14 years later, he was finally returned home to the UK.He is now recovering from his …

Susan Abulhawa – Al Jazeera | 09 Rabi ul Awwal 1437/21 December 2015 With rare exception, Muslims appearing on mainstream Western news outlets are asked, in some way, to apologise for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). At a minimum, they are expected to denounce and condemn …

Saudi Gazette | 05 Rabi ul Awwal 1437/17 December 2015 Egypt’s dictator/puppet el-sisi thanked the Kingdom for its valued support for Egypt and its people. King Salman on Tuesday pledged a total of SR30 billion ($8 billion) in investment and aid to Egypt over the next five years. The King …

By Budour Youssef Hassan 16 December, 2015 The Electronic Intifada It is hard to believe that Hadil Awwad’s room has been abandoned for more than two weeks. It is clean, tidy and smells beautiful. Teddy bears of many colors are scattered on the two sides of her bed. Hadil received …

  ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 13 December 2015 MADINAH: The process of dismantling the Mataf bridge encircling the Kaaba will begin after three months and will be completed by Ramadan to make room for 105,000 pilgrims to perform tawaf in one hour. Before the expansion, only 48,000 pilgrims could …

Analysts and Critics Denounce ‘Muslim’ Label on San Bernardino Attacks   Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News, 2015-12-05   Critics in the US say the religion of the attackers who went on a shooting rampage in California should not be become the main focus of the investigation after the FBI announced …

Al Jazeera | 20 Safar 1437/03 December 2015 France is likely to close up to 160 mosques in the coming months as part of a nationwide police operation under the state of emergency which allows places of worship that promote ‘radical’ views to be shut down, one of the country’s …