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Iraqi Prime Minister congratulates armed forces for Mosul ‘victory’
July 9th, 20170 MOSUL, IRAQ- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul on Sunday and congratulated the armed forces for their victory over ISIS after nearly nine months of urban warfare. ISIS's defeat in Mosul three years after taking the city is a major blow for the terrorist group, which is also losing ground in its operational base in...
Flint Islamic center raises $10,000 for Lt. Jeff Neville
July 9th, 20170 FLINT- The Flint Islamic Center raised $10,000 for Lt. Jeff Neville, the victim of the Bishop International Airport stabbing, as he continues to recover from his injury. The Flint Muslim community launched the fundraising campaign right after the attack. Amor Ftouhi, 49, of Montreal, was charged with stabbing officer Neville at...
Dearborn teenager drowned in Cass Lake
July 9th, 20170 WATERFORD, Mich. - Rescuers are searching for Mohammed Wutwut (15), a Dearborn teenage boy who went missing in Cass Lake on July 8. Witnesses say the 15 year-old from Dearborn was swimming in a shallow part of the lake this afternoon. He went underwater and never resurfaced. Dive teams from the Oakland County Sheriff's Department...Dearborn teenager drowned in Cass Lake, recovery efforts continue
July 9th, 20170 WATERFORD, Mich. - Rescuers are searching for Mohammed Wutwut (15), a Dearborn teenage boy who went missing in Cass Lake on July 8. Witnesses say the 15 year-old from Dearborn was swimming in a shallow part of the lake this afternoon. He went underwater and never resurfaced. Dive teams from the Oakland County Sheriff's Department...
Muslim leaders begin European tour to protest against terror
July 8th, 20170 Dozens of religious leaders boarded a bus on the Champs Elysees in Paris on Saturday to kick off a European tour of the sites of recent ISIS attacks to remember the victims and condemn violence. Imams from countries including France, Belgium, Britain and Tunisia were joined by representatives of other religious communities at the spot...
Two armed men who walked into police station found guilty by jury
July 7th, 20171 DEARBORN — Two men who entered the Dearborn Police Station armed with firearms and dressed in tactical vests and masks earlier this year were found guilty with felonies by a jury in the Wayne County Circuit Court on Thursday, July 7. Police first arrested Brandon Vreeland, 40, of Jackson and James Craig Baker, 24, of Leonard on Feb....
Brothers who attacked Mike Sareini charged with assault and battery
July 7th, 20170 DEARBORN — Two men who attacked City Councilman Mike Sareini and his 66-year-old mother in March are facing two counts each of assault and battery. They are set to appear in court on Aug. 4 before Judge Mark Somers in the 19th District Court in a pretrial settlement conference. The conference will result in either a deal with Wayne...
Excessive fireworks put Dearborn residents in a war zone
July 7th, 20170 The Fourth of July has passed, but the community's celebratory faults haven't, as "war zone" sounds persistently reappear over the years. Dearborn's patriotism shines bright on Independence Day. However, community members launch dangerous fireworks in between houses and throughout neighborhoods— disregarding the potential dangers,...
The call to shut down Al Jazeera must be condemned
July 7th, 20170 It has been more than a month since four Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia decided to cut off ties with their neighbor, Qatar. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE imposed severe diplomatic and economic sanctions on the tiny Gulf state that heavily depends on imports for its daily consumption of necessary goods. The...
Local food blogger Zee Shami opens culinary studio in Dearborn Heights
July 7th, 20170 By Stephen Martin DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On July 5, local food blogger Zee Shami held the grand opening of her new culinary studio, ZeeTheCook. The studio offers cooking classes, etiquette coaching, unique culinary workshops and birthday parties, as well as fall, spring and summer camps for children. It also offers adults a variety...
Qatar Airways joins major Middle East rivals in lifting laptop ban on U.S. flights
July 6th, 20170 DUBAI- Qatar Airways said on Thursday passengers traveling to the U.S. can now carry their laptops and other large electronics on board, ending a three month in-cabin ban on devices for the Doha-based airline. Qatar Airways joins Emirates, Turkish Airlines and Etihad Airways, which have also announced this week a lifting of the ban on...
Rights group urges Lebanon to probe deaths of Syrians in custody
July 5th, 20170 BEIRUT ― Human Rights Watch on Wednesday demanded an independent inquiry into the deaths of four Syrians who died while in Lebanese army custody and said anyone responsible for wrongdoing should be held to account. The Lebanese army said on Tuesday that the four Syrian men arrested during a raid on a refugee camp on Friday had died...
Suspect in Michigan airport stabbing indicted
July 5th, 20170 FLINT- A Canadian man was charged on Wednesday with stabbing a Michigan airport police officer in an attack federal investigators are probing as an act of terrorism, according to an indictment filed with the federal court in Flint. Amor Ftouhi, 49, of Montreal, was previously charged with stabbing officer Jeff Neville at the Bishop...
Assad appears on Syrian currency for first time
July 4th, 20170 President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on the Syrian currency for the first time, his portrait printed on a new 2,000-pound banknote that went into circulation on Sunday. Central bank governor Duraid Durgham said the 2,000-pound note was one of several new notes printed years ago but the decision to put it into circulation was delayed...
Trump administration defends interpretation of travel ban ruling
July 4th, 20170 NEW YORK- The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump opposed opening the door to grandparents from six Muslim-majority countries on Monday, arguing in a court filing that the government's interpretation of how to implement its temporary travel ban is based on U.S. immigration law. The U.S. Supreme Court in a ruling last Monday......
Iraq declares end of ISIS in Mosul
July 3rd, 20170 MOSUL — After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops captured the ruined mosque at the heart of ISIS' de facto capital in Mosul, on Thursday and the prime minister declared the group's self styled caliphate at an end. Iraqi authorities expect the long battle for Mosul to end in coming days as remaining ISIS...
Nearly half a million Syrians return to own homes this year
July 2nd, 20170 Nearly half a million Syrians have returned to their homes so far this year, including 440,000 internally displaced people and more than 31,000 returning from neighboring countries, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday. Most returned to Aleppo, Hama, Homs and Damascus, it said, on the view that security had improved in parts of the......
U.S. deaths by police gunfire on track to reach 1,000 in 2017
July 2nd, 20170 Police officers across the United States shot 492 people dead in the first half of 2017, on track to approach 1,000 such incidents for the third year in a row, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The Post, which has been tracking all fatal shootings by police since 2015, said the tally on June 16 of this year was identical to...
Three car bombs hit Syria, at least seven people killed
July 2nd, 20170 SYRIA- Three car bombs exploded in Damascus on Sunday, state media said, killing at least seven people in the first suicide bombings in the Syrian capital since March. A police officer at the scene of one of the blasts put the death toll there at seven with 13 more people wounded. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based...
Republican healthcare bill imperiled, with 22 million seen losing insurance
July 1st, 20170 WASHINGTON— Twenty-two million Americans would lose insurance over the next decade under the Republican-controlled Senate’s healthcare bill, a nonpartisan congressional office said on Monday, complicating the path forward for the already-fraught legislation. After the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score, Senator Susan Collins,...
Hussein Berry is to blame for the tension on the school board and in the community
July 1st, 20172 These past few weeks have been filled with political rants, social media gossips and legal threats. It has become hard to find the truth amid the sea of accusations. This is the new age of politics, it is the Trump era. Truth has no place in his White House and it seems that it has no place in Dearborn, either. At the Dearborn Board......
Gunman kills doctor, wounds six in a New York City hospital rampage
July 1st, 20170 NEW YORK- A doctor who had lost his job at a New York City hospital opened fire with an assault rifle inside the building on Friday, killing another physician and wounding six other people before taking his own life in a burst of apparent workplace-related violence, officials said. The gunman, wearing a white medical lab coat, stalked...
Acid attack on Muslim cousins in London investigated as hate crime
July 1st, 20170 LONDON- On June 21, a White man in London threw acid on Muslim cousins Resham Khan, a 21-year-old aspiring model, and Jameel Muhktar, 37 through their car window. According to police, the "horrendous act of violence" is now being investigated as a hate crime as they had found new information that led them to that conclusion. Police......
International students: A $32.8 billion industry
June 30th, 20170 By Stephen Martin DEARBORN — The ever-changing global perception of the United States is having an impact on the education industry. CNN, The Hechinger Report and Inside Higher Ed have respectively reported in recent years on a decline in H1B work visas, a decline in international student applications and increased competition...
Travel ban bars grandparents, fiancés from six Muslim countries
June 29th, 20170 WASHINGTON- Grandparents, grandchildren and fiancés of people in the United States will be barred from getting U.S. visas under President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban against citizens of six Muslim-majority countries taking effect on Thursday, U.S. officials said. The administration also narrowly interpreted which refugees......
