IRBIL, Iraq (CNN) — ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack Friday near the U.S. Consulate in the Kurdish Iraqi city of Irbil, according to several Twitter accounts linked to the terror group. The U.S. Consulate was the target of the attack, ISIS said. At least two people were killed and five injured, […]
PALERMO, Sicily — Fifteen Muslim migrants have been arrested on charges that they threw a dozen Christians off a boat to drown in the Mediterranean sea. On Tuesday, 105 passengers boarded a rubber boat to travel from Libya to Italy, where they were seeking asylum as refugees. However, during the journey, Muslims aboard became agitated when they […]
An American pastor imprisoned in Iran is reportedly being threatened that he will not be freed from prison until he denies his faith in Christ and returns to Islam. As previously reported, Saeed Abedini, a former Iranian Muslim turned Christian, left Iran in 2005 and moved to the United States with his wife and two […]
IRAQ — A nine-year-old Yazidi girl has been impregnated after being raped by at least ten members of the barbaric Islamic group ISIS, which identifies itself as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, according to aid workers in the region. “This girl is so young she could die if she delivers a baby,” Yousif […]
NAIROBI — One Kenyan student is dead and approximately 100 others were treated at a local hospital on Sunday following a stampede driven by fear of a second Islamic terror attack that turned out to be only an electrical problem. According to reports, at approximately 4:30 a.m., an electrical transformer blew up at the University of Nairobi-Kikuyu, […]
Malaysia (Mission Network News) — Amendments implementing the hudud law (Sharia penal code) were passed unanimously by the legislation of Kelantan state in Malaysia on March 19th. The next step is to submit two bills in the federal parliament in order for the hudud to be enforceable. Open Doors USA reports these bills will be […]
TIKRIT, Iraq (CNN) — Mass graves believed to hold Iraqi soldiers have been discovered in newly liberated Tikrit. Up to 1,700 bodies may be recovered. ISIS claimed to have executed that many soldiers captured in June outside Camp Speicher, a fortified Iraqi base near Tikrit. A total of 47 bodies have been exhumed from two […]
LONDON — A mother in the UK is expressing thankfulness that she refused to listen to doctors who advised her to obtain an abortion two years ago after asserting that her then unborn daughter was “incompatible with life.” Michelle Macaulay and her husband learned in late 2012 that they were pregnant with their second child. […]
LONDON — An employment tribunal in the United Kingdom has ruled against an occupational therapist who was suspended for nine months after her Muslim co-worker alleged that she was trying to convert her. Victoria Wasteney, 38, had developed a friendship with her colleague Enya Nawaz, 27, as they worked at the St. John Howard Center in London. […]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (New York Post) — Islamist Boko Haram militants disguised as clerics killed at least 24 people and wounded several others in an attack near a mosque in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, a military source and witness said on Monday. The attackers arrived in cars late Sunday and gathered people at a mosque in the […]