A Moroccan man convicted of helping three of the September 11 attackers as they plotted to strike New York and Washington was flown from a Hamburg jail on Monday to the city's airport in preparation...More
Afghanistan is set to hold much-delayed parliamentary elections next Saturday, the first since NATO's combat mission ended in 2014. An election regarded as successful would send a strong message to...More
Protestors from across Germany marched through Berlin on Saturday against racism, xenophobia and the far right in one of the country's biggest rallies of recent years. Organisers put the turnout at...More
The United Nations and humanitarian workers on Sunday condemned an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen's Shia rebels that reportedly killed at least 15 civilians near the port city...More
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has signed into law a new bill expanding the powers of a government ministry overseeing religious affairs and limiting the term of the country's top Muslim cleric...More
An ultra-nationalist monk – dubbed the "Buddhist Bin Laden" – on Sunday condemned the international community for their calls to bring Myanmar's generals to justice over the Rohingya crisis...More
Israel's government on Sunday approved the construction of 31 settler homes in Hebron, the first such green light for the flashpoint West Bank city since 2002, a cabinet minister said. Construction...More
The Red Cross on Sunday appealed to Nigeria to secure the release of two abducted health workers, as a deadline set by Boko Haram to kill them approached. The International Committee of the Red Cross...More
The "sinicisation" of religion must be upheld to promote ethnic solidarity and religious harmony, a senior Chinese official has said in the troubled western region of Xinjiang, which is home to a...More
The Saudi contributor to the Washington Post who went missing more than a week ago and is feared dead had major plans, including a string of new projects to promote inclusiveness and accountability...More
Brothers Abu Eliyas and Abu Yousef have fought at opposite ends of the insurgency against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. One is a member of a rebel group that was once backed by the CIA. The other...More
A deadline passed on Monday without jihadists leaving a planned buffer zone around Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib, as set out under a Russian-Turkish deal. The radical fighters were...More
Omar Alnifawi was 16 when he fled Syria's civil war with his family. After four years working menial jobs in Lebanon to help pay for their journey on to Europe, he had given up on ever going back to...More
The disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has hardened resistance in the U.S. Congress to selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, already a sore point for many lawmakers concerned about the...More
Egyptian authorities detained the youngest son of jailed former President Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday for questioning on charges of spreading "fake news", then released him on bail. State security...More
A surprise celebrity wedding bridging Israel's Jewish-Muslim divide drew mixed public reaction on Thursday in a country where such inter-marriage is extremely rare. Wednesday's nuptials of Tsahi...More
The Turkish government says it has audio and video recordings proving that dissident journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was slain inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul this...More
Thousands of Syrians stranded on Jordan's border with Syria are running out of food as routes leading to their camp are closed by the Syrian army and Jordan is blocking aid deliveries, relief workers...More
Religious hardliners in Pakistan this week threatened judges and announced protests as the country awaits a Supreme Court ruling on the fate of a Christian woman who faces becoming the first person...More
Syrian Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State group hold around 900 of the organisation's foreign jihadists, a spokesman said on Thursday, a sharp increase from a previous figure. In lengthy...More
Allegations that Saudi Arabia killed a journalist inside its Istanbul consulate have forced Donald Trump into a position he never expected – raising human rights with the kingdom he has steadfastly...More
In Yassin Mohammed's sketches and paintings, he and other Egyptian prisoners are crammed into tiny cells, feet in each other's faces and their few belongings hanging from the walls. The cramped...More
The capital of China's Xinjiang region, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority, has launched a campaign against halal products to stop Islam penetrating secular life and fuelling "extremism". In a...More
Cows roam freely in the Pakistani city of Mithi, as in neighbouring India. Considered sacred animals among Hindus, they embody the religious tolerance of this community in conservative Muslim...More
An international independent investigation should be launched into the disappearance of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, three UN human rights monitors are demanding. "We are deeply...More
Jihadists and Turkish-backed rebels in Syria's last major opposition stronghold have withdrawn heavy weapons from nearly all of a planned buffer zone, a monitor said on Tuesday, a day ahead of...More
Qatari-bought fuel arrived at the Gaza Strip's only power station after entering through Israel on Tuesday in a bid to alleviate conditions in the Palestinian enclave, a Hamas spokesman and sources...More
Turkey is investigating the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident writer who has not been seen since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, as doubts persist as to...More
Aqal passes to Aqal, who finds Aqal in space out wide. He squares to Aqal, who smashes home a strike, sending the crowd of yet more family members into hysterics. The match inside Jerusalem's walled...More
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday promised a new law that will reward whistle-blowers who help nab corrupt officials and politicians. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party won the July...More
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday said that a Russia-Turkey deal for the last major rebel bastion of Idlib was a "temporary measure", state news agency SANA reported. "The agreement is a...More
An Egyptian judge has issued an order banning a former presidential candidate from travelling abroad over suspicions he may be linked to a case alleging foreign financing to harm national security,...More
Pakistan's Supreme Court is set to hear the final appeal Monday of a Christian on death row since 2010 accused of insulting Islam's prophet, a crime that incites mobs to kill and carries an automatic...More
Leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) have been rebuked for belittling the significance of the Nazis and criticising a Holocaust memorial, but this has not stopped a small group of...More
Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who disappeared last week after a visit to his country's consulate in Turkey, was once a Saudi insider. A close aide to the kingdom's former spy chief, he had...More
The European Union's ambassador to Iraq said on Thursday that he had become sick in the city of Basra from polluted water, which has seen tens of thousands of residents hospitalised. Envoy Ramon...More
In a country where political power is formally shared by three ethnic groups, Bosnians who identify as "ostali" – or "others" – are second-class citizens. They can vote in Sunday's general elections...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to emphasise their two nations' strong relations during a visit by the German leader to Israel even as their...More
The election of a respected Kurdish politician as Iraq's new president and his designation of a compromise figure as premier gives the country a fighting chance of achieving stability after years of...More
Jerusalem's mayor said on Thursday that he plans to remove a U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees from the city, accusing the body of operating illegally and promoting incitement against Israel. Nir...More
Turkey will not leave Syria until the Syrian people hold an election, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. "Whenever the Syrian people hold an election, we will leave Syria to its...More
Saudi Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist who has gone missing after entering his country's consulate in Istanbul, has been an outspoken critic of the ultra-conservative kingdom's...More
Iran's supreme leader says the Islamic Republic will "slap" the United States by defeating new American sanctions targeting the nation. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the comments Thursday in a speech...More
An international rights group on Wednesday accused Egyptian authorities of "forcibly disappearing" a prominent human rights lawyer who was due to be released from prison last month but whose...More
Police in Spain have dismantled a jihadist recruitment ring which operated in 17 prisons and included two men convicted over the deadly 2004 Madrid train bombings, officials said onTuesday. The...More
With its pristine waters, snow-covered mountains and breath-taking Alpine views, the Austrian lakeside town of Zell am See is one of the top European destinations for visitors from the Gulf region...More
Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul insisted on Thursday that a missing Saudi contributor to The Washington Post left its building before disappearing, directly contradicting Turkish officials who...More
A judge cannot refuse to take testimony from a woman because she is wearing an Islamic veil, a court ruled on Wednesday. A citizen may wear any religious attire in a courtroom so long as their "...More
The trial of 189 suspected Islamist militants began in Mozambique on Wednesday, with the accused allegedly involved in attacks against police and civilians in the northern province of Cabo Delgado...More
A prominent Pakistani cleric says an Afghan delegation has asked him to mediate between the Kabul government and the Taliban to help resolve the 17-year-long war in Afghanistan. Maulana Samiul Haq...More
An Egyptian court has ordered a retrial of the Muslim Brotherhood's leader Mohamed Badie and other senior figures from the banned group starting on 7 October, judicial sources and state news agency...More
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Monday that they had launched a missile strike against a "terrorist" headquarters in Syria in retaliation for an attack that killed 24 people in the Iranian city...More
They pollute the roads and chug along at a snail's pace, but to their Pakistani owners the rickety trucks are moving pieces of art. And indeed, the trucks with their many garish portraits of flowers, Islamic art and snow-capped Himalayan peaks are now attracting global attention. By Caren Firouz and Jibran Ahmad
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"