Frustrated with having to defend Muslims and Islam in the wake of a brutal terror campaign by the Islamic State (IS), a group of South Africans are planning an interfaith demonstration calling for peace and justice. Faithworks, a network of South African Muslims, will host an interfaith vigil for people[…]
US President Barack Obama will not hesitate to conduct airstrikes in Syria as he expands the US fight to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State. “We will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are,” Obama said in a rare evening address to the American people from[…]
The Islamic Unity Convention (IUC) has joined several South African Muslim bodies in condemning the actions of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis). It said in a statement on Wednesday that core tenets of Islam included love, peace and unity and justice and that these values were not[…]
US President Barack Obama is set to outline an expanded military and political effort to combat the Islamic State armed group in Syria and Iraq, and urge American legislators to quickly give him authority to arm Syrian opposition forces. Obama’s much-anticipated television address on Wednesday comes on the eve of[…]
US President Barack Obama is sending his secretary of state to Saudi Arabia to meet Arab foreign ministers as he prepares to deliver a speech outlining his strategy against the Islamic State group. John Kerry’s meeting seeks to broaden a coalition across the Arab world against the armed Sunni group,[…]
Top US diplomat John Kerry vowed Monday to build an enduring international coalition to defeat the Islamic State, saying almost every nation had a role to play in eliminating the groups terrorizing Iraq and Syria. Speaking only hours before leaving on a mission to solidify the hardening front against the[…]
US President Barack Obama will on Wednesday spell out his strategy to destroy the Islamic State, the Sunni rebel group that controls large parts of Iraq and Syria. “What I’m going to be asking the American people to understand is, number one, this is a serious threat,” Obama told broadcaster[…]
The United States has begun carrying out air strikes near Iraq’s Haditha Dam which was under threat from Islamic State (IS) fighters, a US defence official has said. It is the first time that the US is targeting IS fighters in the area as the group tries to capture the[…]
“As much as many Iraqi’s and Syrians dislike ISIS, they have greater problems with their own regimes. Because of this, they are willing to put up with what they view as the lesser of two evils”. These were the words of Afro-Middle East Centre (AMEC) researcher, Omar Shaukat, addressing the[…]
The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has called on the United Nations (UN) to put an end to the Islamic State (IS) destructive path and prevent further atrocities in the volatile region. This follows the recent beheading of a second US journalist, Steven Sotloff, as well as Thursday’s kidnapping of dozens[…]
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