Muslim Issues

Lenore Zimmerman, 85, shows injury she says came during strip search by security at JFK Airport. An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search on Tuesday by agents at JFK Airport. Lenore Zimmerman, who lives in Long Beach, says she was on her way to a 1 p.m. flight to Fort …

Icelandic parliament passes resolution making country the first in western Europe to accept Palestine as an independent state   Iceland's foreign minister, Ossur Skarphedinsson, said he would discuss the outcome of the vote with other Nordic countries before making a formal declaration on Palestinian statehood. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images Iceland has become the first western european country to recognise Palestine as …

Bashar al-Assad, Syria's beleaguered president, has openly defied the Western world, succeeded in splitting the United Nations Security Council and fractured the League of Arab States – even as it imposed unprecedented economic sanctions against his embattled country. With Russia and China, two permanent members of the Security Council, exercising their vetoes to protect him against U.N. intervention, and Lebanon …

Pakistani protesters rally in the city of Lahore to condemn the NATO air strike on two army checkpoints in the country’s northwest that left 24 soldiers dead.(PHOTO ap)   The NATO air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers went on for almost two hours and continued even after Pakistani commanders had pleaded with coalition forces to stop, the army claimed …

Sanctions include asset freeze on Assad Thousands of supporters of Lebanon's anti-Syrian opposition rally in the northern city of Tripoli on November 27, 2011 to denounce the Syrian regime and its Shiite ally Hezbollah. The rally in the northern port city was organised by the Future Movement, the main opposition party headed by ex-premier Saad Hariri, to mark the 68th anniversary …

Last February Britain’s then defense minister Liam Fox attended a dinner in Tel Aviv with a group described as senior Israelis. Alongside him sat Adam Werritty, a lobbyist whose “improper relations” with the minister would lead eight months later to Fox’s hurried resignation. According to several reports in the British media the Israelis in attendance at the dinner were representatives …