​In a televised speech on Wednesday 10 September 2014, President Barack Obama outlined what he described “as a reasonable strategy” for attacking the so called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, renamed Islamic State -IS. He said “We will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq.  Instead, this will be a war where others mainly Iraqi soldiers fight on …

The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is pleased to allocate Scholarships for meritorious but financially needy Muslim Students in Sri Lanka, who are selected for admission to the University for Agriculture, Dental, Engineering, Medicine Veterinary faculties. The Students will be paid Stipends thrice a year plus grants for books clothing each year. The IDB Scholarship is a grant from the IDB …

The old poem that most American school children recognize begins “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…” Indeed, in the year 1492, Christopher Columbus (whose real name in Italian was Cristoforo Colombo) sailed across the Atlantic in the name of the Spanish crown and landed in the Caribbean part of North America. For hundreds of years, it has simply been …

Medical sciences have witnessed unprecedented developments in the past decades that have resulted in better health care systems in many countries of the world. Last decade, the World Health Organization's World Health Report for the year 2000 ranked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 26th in terms of the performance of its health care system compared to that of 190 other countries assessed in the report. …

Helping Hand People in some parts of the country are facing severe drought. They are not having any water to use, for such as drinking, cooking or even for washing. Center for Islamic Studies welfare wing has decided to collect water bottles in 1 liter or 5 liters bottles. Anyone wishing to donate can come and hand over them at …