Africa

Five Nigerian soldiers were killed, four injured and dozens missing when ISIS-aligned terrorists attacked a military base in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, two military officers told AFP Saturday.Terrorists from the so-called Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) on Friday dislodged…

The Libyan calligrapher Abd al-Salam al-Sarari wrote more than a thousand small Qurans, expressing his hope now to write a distinguished copy of the Holy Quran with the arts of Arabic calligraphy that he mastered, in order to decorate the…

Egyptian authorities say a passenger train accident Sunday north of Cairo has killed at least 11 people.Railway authorities say that at least four train wagons ran off the tracks at the city of Banha in Qalyubia province.The Health Ministry said…

At least 19 civilians were killed when armed men raided a village in west Niger close to the border with Mali, officials have said, in the latest bloodshed in the troubled region.The governor of Tillaberi region said dozens of heavily…

At least 40 migrants have drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, United Nations and Tunisian officials said.The Tunisian coast guard had so far recovered 21 bodies, all African migrants, and rescued…

As many as 65,000 people have fled the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak following a series of attacks by an armed group, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said.Terrorists from the so-called Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) stormed the…

Sheikh Ali Gomaa, the former Grand Mufti of the Republic of Egypt and a senior member of the Council of Scholars in al-Azhar, reiterated the importance of the Site of the Head of Imam Hussain, peace be upon him, in…

An illiterate Egyptian man managed to write the longest handwritten Quran in the world after spending years of work and effort.Saad Muhammad Hashish, from the western province, is an illiterate man who taught himself reading and writing, and the art…

Egyptian volunteers organized a sterilization and cleaning campaign for the Imam Hussein Mosque in the Egyptian capital Cairo, in preparation for its opening during the great month of Ramadan.“One of the companies specialized in medical sterilization carried out a volunteer…

The Umm al-Baneen Center, affiliated with the Shirazi Religious Authority in the city of Majunga, Madagascar, held a symposium to commemorate the birth anniversary of Imam al-Mahdi, may Allah hasten his reappearance.The symposium was attended by a group of women…