The Stealth Crusade By Barry Yeoman | Wed May 1, 2002 12:00 AM PST At 8 o'clock on a warm Monday morning in January, 20 students file into Rick Love's classroom at Columbia International University in South Carolina. Eyes glassy from writing papers all weekend, they clutch Styrofoam cups of Folgers a...
Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region Author: Preeti Bhattacharji, Research Associate Updated: July 6, 2009 ...
Mosques in the riot-hit capital of China's northwestern Xinjiang province have been ordered to stay closed for Friday prayers in the wake of recent ethnic violence, media reports quoted Chinese officials as saying. An official who identified herself as a government worker but refused to give her name was quoted as saying the decision to close mosques in Urumqi had been made for public safety and that "people should stay at home today and pray." Separately, officials ...
China ramps up propaganda to quell unrest Last Updated: Thursday, July 9, 2009 | 4:16 PM ET Comments103...
Iran mosque explosion kills at least 15, wounds 50 Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 3:48 PM ET Comments5...
Israel threatens 'disproportionate' response to Hamas rocket fire Last Updated: Sunday, February 1, 2009 | 8:41 AM ET Comments259...
Israel pounds Gaza tunnels as U.S. Mideast envoy arrives in region Last Updated: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 | 7:27 AM ET Comments71...
Air strike, bombing threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire Last Updated: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | 12:06 PM ET Comments340...
Fragile ceasefire continues in Gaza Officials expected to meet on Sunday Last Updated: Friday, January 23, 2009 | 9:21 PM ET Comments0...
Israel pulling out of Gaza; Hamas ceases fire - at least for now Published: Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 8:03 PM ET Canadian Press NewsItem/NewsComponent/NewsLines/ByLine GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops began to withdraw from Gaza Sunday after their government and Hamas militants declared an end...
UN headquarters in Gaza City hit by Israeli artillery Last Updated: Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 5:58 AM ET Comments189...
UN and Red Cross halt Gaza aid deliveries after Israeli attacks on staff Module body ...
Rockets fired from Lebanon strike northern Israel Israeli military bombs Gaza overnight as conflict against Hamas enters 13th day Last Updated: Thursday, January 8, 2009 | 2:12 AM ET Comments35...
UN Security Council must not fail civilians caught in Gaza conflict 5 January 2009 Amnesty International today urged the UN Security Council to take firm and decisive action to address the increasingly grave situation in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel. “Civilian casualties and destruction in Gaza are on an unprecedented scale. T...
UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets Last Updated: Monday, December 29, 2008 | 9:53 PM ET Comments1198...
China Muslim minorities Uprising from the ashes of history Last Updated: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | 9:40 AM ET Comments64...
29 dead, dozens wounded as blasts hit western India Last Updated: Saturday, July 26, 2008 | 3:06 PM ET Comments16...
Jewish settlers terrorizing Palestinians with impunity, UN expert says 11:07:46 EST Mar 8, 2006 BRADLEY S. KLAPPER GENEVA (AP) - Jewish settlers are terrorizing Palestinians with impunity, attacking children on their way to school and destroying farmers' trees and crops, a UN expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict said in a report. ...
Pakistani cleric announces big reward for killing Prophet cartoonist 10:54:59 EST Feb 17, 2006 ...
Fearful Christmas in Baghdad By Zaineb Salah Ahmed in Baghdad Sunday 25 December 2005, 9:23 Makka Time, 6:23 GMT Iraqi Christians light a bonfire on Christmas Eve Related: Church blasts fail to dent Iraqi unity Islamist groups deny role in church blasts Iraqi Muslims, Christians stress unity Several killed in attack on Iraqi churches Tools: Email Article Print Article Send...
Israel threatens to cut Gaza power by Thursday 22 December 2005 3:28 PM GMT Israeli troops killed three Palestinian fighters in Nablus Israel has threatened to cut power supplies to the Gaza Strip as more rockets were fired from the territory after troops killed three Palestinian fighters. Zeev Boim, the deputy defence minister, confirmed on Thursday that the idea of severing electricity supplies to Gaza has recently been discussed in th...
Police investigating Sydney race riots find pistol, ammunition in house raids 06:53:14 EST Dec 19, 2005 MIKE CORDER SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Detectives investigating race riots that rocked Sydney last week seized a pistol, ammunition, knives and smoke bombs in a series of raids Monday, police said in a statement. The weapons haul came after police questioned five men arrested Sunday night with a drum of petrol and objects for putting together makeshift...
U.S. soldiers accused of assaulting Afghan prisoners Last Updated Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:33:09 EST CBC News Two American soldiers have been charged with assaulting two detainees at a military base in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military says. A military statement issued on Sunday alleged that the two soldiers punched the prisoners in the chest, shoulders and stomach while they were being held in Uruzgan province in July. "The command rem...
4 dead in blast at Israeli market Last Updated Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:10:49 EDT CBC News At least four people were killed on Wednesday in a bombing in the Israeli coastal city of Hadera, said Israeli police and emergency workers. * INDEPTH: Middle East Ambulances rushed to a market area in the Mediterranean coastal city as emergency workers treated people in a nearby field. Police say a Palestinian suicide bomber detonate...
Israel orders Palestinian land seized by Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Wednesday 24 August 2005 4:27 PM GMT The Israeli barrier in Maale Adumim has Palestinians worried Israel has issued orders to seize Palestinian-owned land to link a main Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank to Jerusalem, officials say, a step that could isolate Palestinians from Jerusalem. An Israeli government spokesman on Wednesday said orders were issued t...
Israel to expand West Bank settlement even as it quits Gaza Strip 10:13 AM EDT Aug 04 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel announced plans Thursday to expand a settlement near Jerusalem, its latest effort to consolidate control over parts of the West Bank even as it prepares to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. The plan to build 72 housing units in the Beitar Illit settlement are liable to put Israel on a collision course with the U.S. government, which oppo...
Israeli forces kill teenager in Jenin by Wednesday 27 July 2005 2:49 PM GMT Yusuf Haseef was shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces Israeli occupation troops have shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian bystander in the West Bank town of Jenin while a four-year-old was seriously wounded in shooting at the Rafah refugee camp near Gaza. The forces, backed by Israeli tanks and bulldozers, entered the Palestinian town of Jenin around midd...
Palestinian civilians die in Gaza battle by Friday 15 July 2005 8:32 AM GMT Fighting rages in the Zaitun neighbourhood of Gaza Two Palestinian bystanders have been killed and more than a dozen people wounded in gunbattles between Palestinian security forces and resistance factions, hospital sources said. The internal conflict erupted on Thursday night and resumed on Friday after fighters fired rockets into southern Israel, killing a youn...
Guantanamo inmate forced to wear bra, act like a dog: report Last Updated Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:21:06 EDT CBC News A suspected terrorist was forced to wear a bra, dance with another man and behave like a dog during his interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military investigators said Wednesday. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo Bay The investigators called for Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller to be reprimanded because he did not oversee the interro...
Qur'an thrown in toilet by U.S. guards: ex-prisoner Last Updated Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:58:50 EDT CBC News A Muslim cleric once held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has told reporters in Moscow that fellow prisoners told him that guards desecrated the Qur'an by putting it in a toilet. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo A Guantamamo Bay cell block. (AP file photo) Airat Vakhitov, who was released last year, said he did...
Israel signals renewed assassinations by Wednesday 22 June 2005 6:44 AM GMT Israel says it will resume its attack on Palestinian fighters Israel has resumed an assassination policy against resistance fighters from the Islamic Jihad group, confirming Palestinian reports of a failed Israeli missile strike in Gaza a day earlier. "There was an attempt in Gaza to intercept an [Islamic Jihad] activist yesterday. It was unsuccessful," Public Se...
Israeli, Palestinian killed in shootings by Monday 20 June 2005 6:13 AM GMT The attack was near Baka al-Sharqiya, 10km north of Tulkarim An Israeli civilian and a Palestinian teenager have been shot dead in the Palestinian territories, the Israeli army and medical sources on both sides say. In the northern West Bank, an Israeli man was killed and a teenager injured when Palestinian fighters ambushed their car, the army and medics said....
US rejects calls to shut Guantanamo by Tuesday 07 June 2005 7:45 AM GMT The Pentagon opened the prison in January 2002 The Pentagon has rejected a call to close its Guantanamo prison and declined to express regret over five cases of US jailors "mishandling" the Quran there. Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon spokesman, said on Monday that the United States was not considering shutting the Guantanamo jail as suggested by a senior Senate De...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A bomb from a suicide attacker tore through a mosque during Wednesday's funeral for a Muslim cleric opposed to the Taliban, killing at least 20 people, and the local governor said an al-Qaida-linked militant was responsible. At least 42 people were wounded. The attack - which came on the heels of a major upsurge in rebel violence in recent months including assassinations, near-daily clashes with rebels and the kidnapping of an Italian ai...
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