Pope Francis, who has made boosting ties between Christianity and Islam a cornerstone of his papacy, will visit Abu Dhabi in February, the Vatican said on Thursday, becoming the first ever pope to...More
Two Jordanian families aim to put wine from their desert land on the world viticultural map, reviving an age-old tradition that some suggest has Biblical heritage. Wine lovers like to say that the...More
Representatives from around the globe are gearing up for a major conference in Morocco to endorse a United Nations migration pact, despite a string of countries shunning the accord. The Global...More
U.S. senators, bent on punishing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, said on Thursday they want to vote next week to penalise Riyadh, but struggled...More
At the crack of dawn in Kabul, dozens of girls and women bounce along a path leading up a barren, rocky mountain on the edge of the Afghan capital, relishing every step of freedom. The all-female...More
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says there is compelling evidence that the Myanmar military committed genocide against Rohingya Muslims last year. "Our analysis concludes there is...More
Security forces in Mozambique waging the fight against jihadists in the country's north are guilty of "serious abuses" of human rights including summary executions, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday...More
A Greek court has agreed to release Syrian refugee Sarah Mardini, once lauded for helping to save people in a sinking dinghy at sea, who was detained in August accused of helping illicit migrant...More
A vote in Iraq's parliament on the remaining candidates for Cabinet seats was postponed again on Tuesday amid deep divisions over the key defence and interior portfolios. Deputy Speaker Hassan al-...More
A UN team authorised over a year ago to investigate the massacre of the Yazidi minority and other atrocities by jihadists in Iraq will finally begin work early next year, the head of the...More
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made an apparent threat on Tuesday to disrupt other countries' oil shipments through the Gulf if Washington presses ahead with efforts to halt Iranian oil exports...More
The first UN-backed discussions on the disputed Western Sahara region since 2012 open in Geneva on Wednesday, but expectations remain low, with the meeting seen as just a first step towards resuming...More
Prosecutors in Rome on Tuesday formally opened an investigation into five Egyptian domestic secret service members and police investigators in connection with the 2016 torture and murder of an...More
The majority of those in Australia-run immigration detention camps on the Pacific island of Nauru are suffering from "extreme" and "inhumane" levels of mental health issues, according to Doctors...More
Israeli police on Sunday said they had found enough evidence for bribery and fraud charges to be brought against Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife in a third corruption case against the Israeli prime...More
Independents have won most seats in Bahrain’s parliament after a two-round election that the opposition boycotted, according to official results released on Sunday. The first round was held on 24...More
Tens of thousands of Indonesian Muslims held a rally in Jakarta on Sunday led by hard-line groups who had agitated to remove the city's Christian governor, underscoring the growing influence of...More
An Egyptian film star faces trial next month for promoting immorality after attending the Cairo Film Festival in a see-through dress, state-owned online newspaper Al-Ahram Gate reported on Saturday...More
Twenty Yemeni children huddle together outside Khokha hospital, hoping to be let into a clinic that serves as a lifeline for tens of thousands. On the narrow pavement, a boy dressed in purple leans...More
The IOC has set up an advisory committee on human rights chaired by Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, former United Nations commissioner for human rights. President Thomas Bach said on Saturday at meetings in...More
The death of former U.S. president George H.W. Bush stirred bitter memories for Iraqis Saturday of "Mr Embargo" – the man behind crushing sanctions they blame for ravaging their country. Under Bush's...More
High up in Lebanon's mountains, the lifeless grey trunks of dead cedar trees stand stark in the deep green forest, witnesses of the climate change that has ravaged them. Often dubbed "Cedars of God...More
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has demanded that the country's mosques be more independent of foreign donors. Mosque communities should "largely" organise and finance themselves and the...More
The two women in the photograph were smiling, but Halmurat Idris knew something was terribly wrong. One was his 39-year-old sister; standing at her side was an elderly woman Idris did not know. Their...More
An Indonesian city plans to slap its gay and transgendered residents with a one million rupiah ($70) fine for disturbing "public order", underscoring a marked rise in discrimination against the...More
Turkey on Thursday lambasted an "unacceptable" decision by a British court to reject a request from Ankara to extradite a prominent businessman accused of providing financial support for the 2016...More
Italian prosecutors have named several members of Egypt’s national security agency as suspects in the alleged murder of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni – the first Egyptians to be named by the...More
In the Syrian city of Raqqa, children wear hats, scarves and coats to guard against the winter cold as they struggle to catch up on years of lost learning in a classroom with no doors or glazed...More
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency says a Sunni cleric who had worked to reconcile Sunnis and Shias, members of the two biggest sects in Islam, was shot and killed on Tuesday in a village in...More
Hundreds of Tunisians staged the first protests of the Arab world against Saudi Arabia's crown prince as he arrived on a visit on Tuesday, denouncing him as a murderer involved in the killing of...More
A new Indonesian government app that lets the public report suspected cases of religious heresy is drawing fire, as rights groups warn it could aggravate persecution of minorities in the world's...More
A Chinese award-winning photojournalist vanished in the restive northwest region of Xinjiang earlier this month after he was reportedly detained by security agents, his wife said. The wife of Lu...More
A Syrian refugee who spent months in limbo in a budget terminal at a Malaysian airport has arrived in Vancouver after he was granted permanent residency by Canada, a government source and his lawyer...More
Ali al-Boussefi and his wife Zeinab al-Bashari are on a mission to promote the practice of Islamic calligraphy in Libya, even at the risk of offending hardliners in the country. "We hardly have...More
Air strikes hit the edges of Syria's last major rebel stronghold west of Aleppo on Sunday, a monitor said, a day after an alleged toxic attack on the regime-held city. The Britain-based Syrian...More
Pakistani police on Saturday arrested hundreds of supporters of a hardline cleric whose party recently paralysed the country with violent protests over the acquittal of a Christian woman accused of...More
The staunchly anti-migrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) has established itself as Germany's largest opposition party and now sits in all 16 state legislatures. Despite the party's rising fortunes,...More
Police in Muslim-majority Indonesia have questioned the head of one of its newest and most progressive parties, who is battling accusations of "Islamophobia" from rival politicians, after she said...More
Hundreds of female protesters took to the streets of the Syrian Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli on Sunday to call for an end to violence against women. Some banging large drums and others ululating...More
Protesters in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state demonstrated on Sunday against the planned repatriation of Rohingya Muslims from Bangladesh, referring to them as "runaway refugees". About 100 people...More
Tens of thousands of hard-line Hindus rallied on Sunday to demand a Hindu temple be built on a site in northern India where hard-liners in 1992 had attacked and demolished a 16th century mosque,...More
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged Muslims worldwide on Saturday to unite against the United States and assured Saudis they were "brothers" who had nothing to fear from Tehran. U.S. President...More
With songs like "I woke up gay" and "Lonely lesbian", LGBT+ punk band Shh...Diam! is making a rare splash in Malaysia, using music to fight long-running discrimination. The four-member group is a...More
Yemeni officials say the U.N. special envoy has arrived in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in efforts to halt hostilities between Saudi-led forces and Yemen's Shia rebels there and lay the...More
Australia unveiled a radical plan on Thursday to strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship even if they are native-born Australians. Acting after a series of Jihadist-inspired plots and attacks...More
The wife of a British academic sentenced to life in prison for espionage in the United Arab Emirates said Britain's foreign secretary assured her Thursday that the government was now working to get...More
Egypt revealed on Thursday that it was holding the daughter of Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater and five other people, three weeks after family members say they disappeared in a new...More
Lebanon marked 75 years of independence with a military parade on Thursday in Beirut, but many anxious Lebanese feel they have little to celebrate: the country's corruption-plagued economy is...More
India's government has dissolved the Kashmir state assembly in a sudden move that could lead to fresh elections and further turmoil in the disputed region also claimed by Pakistan. The move, which...More
Nearly eight years into the Syrian war, Selim still refuses to perform his military service, just like many fellow Druze from Suwayda province rejecting the regime's conscription call. "I don't want...More
As desperation swells in the squalid camps that are home to a million Rohingya refugees, long-dormant – and often deadly – trafficking networks are being revived, Bangladeshi officials warn...More
A former militia leader from Central African Republic known as "Colonel Rambo" will for the first time face judges in The Hague on Friday on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Alfred...More
A city of some 20 million people combining charm and squalor, Cairo may soon witness an exodus by well-heeled residents, state employees and foreign embassies to the New Administrative Capital. By Hamza Hemdawi
The German Islam Scholar Lamya Kaddor
Why I as a Muslim Woman Don't Wear a Headscarf
Jordan and the influx of refugees
The true Samaritans
Muslims in Liberal Democracies
Why the West Fears Islam
The decline of Islamic scientific thought
Don't blame it on al-Ghazali
The Media and ''The Innocence of Muslims''
Against the Islamisation of Muslims
Junaid Jamshed
"I Was a Sinner for Years"