Paterson 6th Ward Councilman Andre Sayegh submitted 1,197 petition signatures today to the clerk’s office compared to the 493 submitted by his rival, challenger Al Abdel-aziz. Abdel-aziz pointed out ...

Typically, Central Asian militants of Katibat al-Tawhid wal Jihad (KTJ) eschew the use of the first name of their leader, Abdul Aziz (whose actual name is Ilmurad Hikmatov), opting instead to refer to ...

New Jersey Assemblyman Al Abdel-Aziz confirmed that the five people killed in a Halloween night house fire in Paterson were his relatives. The fire broke out at 15 Emerson Avenue just after 9:50 p.m.

In Paterson, where an estimated 20 percent of the population identifies as Muslim, comments like those made by 2016 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump calling for a ban on Muslims entering the ...