Tag: Mosques
Nearly 60 people were killed on Friday in two attacks on mosques in Afghanistan, one Shia in Kabul, the other Sunni in the center, ending a particularly deadly week across the country. The terrorist group Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the Shia mosque in Kabul, killing at least 39 people. The […]
Clashes erupted Sunday morning on the esplanade of the Mosques in the Old City of Jerusalem between Israeli police and Muslim a few hours to the celebration of the Jewish New Year. According to Muslim witnesses, Israeli police entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third place of Islam and caused damage. The clashes occurred when tensions […]
Nearly all of the 436 mosques in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been destroyed by months of deadly sectarian violence, the US envoy to the United Nations says. Samantha Power said Tuesday that 417 of the CAR’s mosques have been destroyed since the conflict began over a year ago. Power, who spoke to reporters […]
