Monthly Archives: November 2009

Islamist militants blew up a girls school in Pakistan's lawless Khyber tribal district Sunday, destroying the building and wounding four people in neighbouring homes, officials said.

A militant Islamist group associated with al Qaeda has for the first time threatened to attack Israel, far from its normal base of operations in Somalia.

A leading Iranian cleric has warned against the enemy's plots to damage the Islamic establishment and called for proper counter measures to be taken.

Authorities in Malaysia have seized more than 20,000 Bibles in recent months because they refer to God as "Allah," Christian leaders said Thursday.

Saudi authorities have discovered an arms cache near the capital linked to an al-Qaeda cell dismantled in August, an interior ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

In what may be the first recorded instance of a Muslim wife attempting to murder her husband for not being pious enough, a Staten Island woman was charged this week with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

Egyptian security forces have intensified their presence in the Upper Egyptian town of Dairout, in anticipation of a recurrence of Muslim violence against Christians.

SUSPECTED Islamic insurgents shot and killed two people and wounded three others in a bomb blast in Thailand's troubled Muslim-majority south, police said.

Opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah announced on Sunday that he was pulling out of next weekend's run-off presidential election in Afghanistan because demands he made for a fair vote had not been met by the government and election officials.