Ramadan

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A pilaf recipe from a cookbook on Arabic food

Palestinian writer Reem Kassis offers an iftar-special dish in her terrific new book

4 min read11 Apr 2021
News

Mecca's Grand Mosque suicide attack: 5 arrested including a woman

A suicide bomber blew himself up near the Grand Mosque at Mecca as Saudi Arabia police disrupted a plot to target the holiest site in Islam just as the fasting month of Ramadan ends

3 min read24 Jun 2017
Politics

Afghanistan attack: 20 dead, 50 wounded in car bombing

Bombing at a bank in Afghanistan's Lashkar Gah city leaves at least 20 people dead and 50 wounded; no group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far

1 min read22 Jun 2017
Videos

Iftar with Rohingya refugees in India

There are around 14,000 registered Rohingya refugees in India

20 Jun 2017
News

Muslim teenage girl killed after leaving Virginia mosque in US

In an apparent hate crime, a 17-year-old American Muslim girl was abducted and beaten after leaving a mosque in Virginia and she was later found dead

2 min read19 Jun 2017
Politics

London mosque attack leaves one dead, several injured

A van ploughed into worshippers leaving a London mosque, killing at least one person and injuring 10 others in what witnesses said was a deliberate attack on Muslims

4 min read19 Jun 2017
Market

Pakistan stocks fall most globally as Nawaz Sharif to appear for probe

Pakistan's benchmark KSE100 Index declined 3.8% at the close in Karachi, the most among 96 primary indexes tracked by Bloomberg

1 min read12 Jun 2017
News

Stunned Qataris hunker down as Gulf neighbours tighten the screws

The reassuring routines of the annual Ramadan fast have been interrupted in Qatari capital Doha, by an incomprehensible shock from its Gulf neighbours

4 min read9 Jun 2017
News

Baghdad blast: Car bomb kills 13, hurts 24, Islamic State claims responsibility

The Islamic State (IS) militant group detonates explosives inside a parked car outside a popular ice cream shop in central Baghdad, killing 13 people and wounding 24

1 min read30 May 2017
News

Afghanistan official says 18 killed in suicide car bomb attack

At least 18 people, mostly civilians, were killed on Saturday when a suicide car bomber targeted a convoy of provincial security forces in eastern Afghanistan

1 min read27 May 2017