Scores of Afghan civilians, including women and a child, have been killed in a NATO airstrike, dealing a major blow to US-led efforts to win Afghan hearts and minds. "Initial reports indicate that NATO fired Sunday on a convoy of three vehicles ... killing at least 27 civilians, including four…

Two British occupation soldiers have been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan. According to the British Occupation Ministry of Defence said the soldiers, from 1st Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment – part of the Household Cavalry Regiment Battle Group – were caught in a…

Hamas political leader has said that his group will not recognise Israel despite new pressures and will give priority to building resistance to the Jewish state. Addressing a rally in the Syrian capital on Friday to mark the end of the Israeli attack on Gaza a year ago that killed 1,400 Palestinian…

Muslim groups reacted angrily after it emerged that the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan were using rifle sights inscribed with coded Biblical references.   The company producing the sights, which are also used to train Afghan and Iraqi soldiers under contracts with the US Army and the Mar…

  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday decried what he called Muslim leaders' inadequate response to Palestinian suffering in the Gaza Strip as "pitiful." He made the remarks when asked to compare the attitude of other Muslim countries to Turkey's vehement out…

 Poll finds 52 percent of Britons believe Blair deliberately misled them to invade Iraq in 2003. Nearly one quarter of Britons want former prime minister Tony Blair to be tried as a war criminal over the Iraq war, according to a poll published on Sunday. A YouGov poll for The Sunday Times new…

 A raid by a US drone in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 12 suspected opposition fighters, Pakistani officials have said. The attack took place on Sunday in the Shaktoi area of South Waziristan, close to the Afghanistan border. "The target was a milit…

Turkish president Abdullah Gul and his premier Recep Erdogan have refused to meet Israeli war minister Ehud Barak during his visit to Ankara, a Turkish paper reported on Saturday. "Hurriyet" quoted Turkish diplomatic sources as saying that Gul and Erdogan do not wish to meet Barak despite…

Sheikh Dr. Salman bin Fahd al-Awda supervisor of Islam Today and a member of the International Union for Muslim Scholars denounced the speech uttered by the representative of Maliki government where he insulted Islamic Umayyad, Abbasi and Ottoman periods. This speech came at the opening of the &qu…

The Center of Ummah Studies and development organized a series of lectures on human development, by researcher Fadli al Fadli certified trainer by the International Federation of Neuro Linguistic Programming.  The lecture was attended by a group of journalists, researchers and observers of th…