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Police monitoring of Muslim students in New York sparks outrage
New York: The mayor faced off with the president of Yale University on Tuesday over an effort by the city’s police department to monitor Muslim student groups for any signs that their members harboured terrorist sympathies.
It was revealed...
New York police built secret files on mosques in New Jersey
Newark: Americans living and working in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark...
Mother visits American condemned to die in Iran
Flint (Michigan): The mother of a former US Marine sentenced to death in Iran on a spying conviction has visited her son in an Iranian prison, a spokesman for the Michigan family said on Tuesday.
Eric Volz said that Benhaz Hekmati was able...
Saudi-backed group mass on Syria border
A report says about 18,000 Saudi-backed Salafists are currently stationed in the northern Jordanian city of Mafraq and the northwestern city of Ramtha near the Syrian border.
According to a recent report published by the Arabic Nakhel news agency,...
US-led airstrikes hit girls school, injure 11 in Afghanistan
US-led airstrikes have hit a religious girls school in eastern Afghanistan, leaving at least 10 students and the school’s janitor injured, Press TV reports.
Afghan officials told Press TV that US-led NATO helicopters carried out the aerial...