Monthly Archives: November 2009

France has asked Switzerland for judicial assistance in an investigation into a nuclear physicist arrested in France over alleged links to al-Qaeda, the federal prosecutor's office said Saturday.

New York - More than 100 non-governmental organizations on Thursday protested attempts by some governments to push through a United Nations resolution to protect religion from defamation.

Spain's first Islamic party is pareparing to run in 2001's local elections in a goal to achieve representation for Muslims in administrations of municipalities, the Spanish media said earlier this week.

'I feel great. It’s an experience for life. It’s one of these things'

A Rochester man is in custody after a police chase down several Rochester streets.

A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-filled car Saturday at a police checkpoint in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 10 people, officials said.

A SYDNEY couple has withdrawn their two children from a public primary school, claiming their 11-year-old son was bullied by Muslim students because he ate a salami sandwich during Ramadan.

Al Qaeda in Its Own Words provides the translated writings of four jihadis—Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, and Abu Musab Zarqawi. Edited by five people with Kepel, a French sociologist of Islam, as lead editor, it contains a wealth of data that, unfortunately, is presented in a rather confused manner.

Iran must continue its struggle against the United States, a hardline cleric said on Friday a day after Washington renewed long-standing U.S. financial sanctions against Iran.

The security services of Iraq's northern Kurdish area said Saturday they had arrested a key al-Qaeda figure allegedly behind a string of bomb attacks, in an operation backed by the U.S. military.