The highest proportion of refugees in Germany currently comes from Iraq, and another 2,500 are due to arrive soon by way of Jordan and Syria, according to a UN organization that resettles displaced Iraqis. Germany has agreed to resettle 2,500 Iraqi refugees, said the Amman office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on…
Senator John Kerry, chairman of the US Foreign Relations Committee, has called for a new chapter in America’s relationship with the Muslim world. Kerry chaired a hearing on Thursday to explore ways to forge better ties with the Muslim world, and opened the hearing by echoing President Obama’s call for better ties: “we share your…
Maher Arar, the Ottawa software engineer tortured in Syria after being deported there in 2002 by the United States on suspicion of terrorist links, responded to renewed claims that connect him to terrorist activity. Last week, an FBI agent testified before a Guantanamo Bay military hearing that terror suspect Omar Khadr said he had seen…
A Canadian federal court judge ordered the conditional release of a Syrian terror suspect who has spent more than seven years in custody without being formally charged. Justice Richard Mosley said in a written statement that the continued detention of Hassan Almrei — accused of being a threat to national security — can no longer…
The third World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace ended without the publication of a shared declaration; “too complicated to write in so little time,” the organizers announced. The Congress brought together 85 participants from 23 countries, including Israel, Palestinian territories, Syria, Libya on the theme “Israel-Palestine sacredness in peace.”
