U.S. Vice President Mike Pence demanded on Thursday that Europeans drop a nuclear deal with Iran and join in seeking to cripple the regime, a cause that united Israel with long-time Arab rivals at a...More
An unrepentant British teenager who joined the Islamic State group in Syria said in an interview on Thursday that she wanted to come home, highlighting the challenge for Western governments on how to...More
Austrian authorities acted unlawfully when they ordered the shuttering of six mosques of the Arab Religious Community last year, the Vienna Administrative Court has ruled. Austria's top religious...More
Valentine's Day wasn't getting much love in the world's biggest Muslim majority nation on Thursday as Indonesian authorities urged amorous couples to call it quits and carried out raids to quash any...More
Anti-Semitic offences rose almost 10 percent in Germany last year and violent attacks were up more than 60 percent, crime statistics released on Wednesday showed, sparking alarm in the Jewish...More
The Syrian opposition believes defeating terrorism in Syria is impossible if the reign of President Bashar al-Assad is not brought to an end, saying the root of the problem must be fought. It's not...More
For generations Algerians like the Gueldasmi family have barely eked out a living growing prickly pear fruits, but thanks to the cactus's new found virtues their lives are steadily improving. "Now,...More
Air India on Thursday resumed flights to Iraq after a 30 year gap, when a plane carrying Shia pilgrims landed in the city of Najaf. "This is the first time in the last 30 years" that a plane has come...More
Security was tight on Friday in Bangladesh as hundreds of thousands of people gathered for a Muslim gathering rivalling the Hajj in Mecca for size. The Biswa Ijtema, or the World Congregation, draws...More
The Egyptian parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly approved proposed constitutional changes which would allow President Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi to stay in power beyond 2022 when his current term ends...More
Ethnic Uighurs have launched a global campaign to press China for video proof that their missing relatives are alive, turning the tables on Beijing's use of video to counter claims that a renowned...More
On a Jerusalem plaza looking up at the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, a crowd gathers in front of two guides, listening attentively, a common sight in a city packed with pilgrims and tourists...More
When Nigerians head to the polls on Saturday, they will be able to choose from a list of a whopping 72 presidential candidates. But only two contestants are expected to have a chance of winning:...More
Egyptian authorities have arrested four students for mocking Christian rituals in an online video and ordered them to be kept in custody for four days, a judicial source said this week. The...More
Instagram has removed an account that published comic strips depicting the struggles of gay Muslims in Indonesia following a frenzy of moral outrage online in the world's biggest Muslim nation. The...More
Turkey has called on China to close its internment camps for Muslims, saying the camps which reportedly hold a million ethnic Uighur people are a "great shame for humanity". Rights activists are...More
Tolerance and non-judgemental understanding may be the best way to try to save radicalised young Europeans who want to go and join militant Islamists in Middle Eastern conflicts, veteran French...More
A study by a Saudi research centre is challenging the notion that jihadist fighters are necessarily disenfranchised and lacking opportunity, with its lead researcher saying that a new generation of...More
When public protests erupted in Sudan over the rising cost of bread almost two months ago, women's rights activist Hala Al-Karib did not hesitate to join the masses on the streets defying the...More
Sitting near a tea stall smoking and drinking sugary milk tea, a group of young Rohingya men are bored and worried about their futures in the world's largest refugee settlement. Having fled over the...More
Indonesian entertainers have rallied against a draft law that seeks to ban blasphemous and "pornographic" music content, which critics say could be used to clamp down on freedom of expression in the...More
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron walked children to school on Sunday, saying protecting them from Israeli settlers was necessary following the withdrawal of international...More
Ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared he will seek a fifth term in April elections in a message published by state media on Sunday, after he was endorsed by his party and the ruling...More
Riyadh does not know the location of dissident Jamal Khashoggi's body, despite having detained the Saudi team that murdered him, a high-ranking foreign affairs official in the kingdom said in an...More
An international rights group on Friday said Egypt executed three Muslim Brotherhood members sentenced to death following torture and beatings to extract confessions. Human Rights Watch said in a...More
A U.S. Muslim man has been executed after the Supreme Court denied a request to halt the sentence over his demand to be accompanied by an imam to the death chamber. Domineque Ray, 42, was put to...More
Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit on Monday as the United States leads a push for peace talks with the Taliban. Shanahan will meet President Ashraf...More
Thirty years after Iran called for the killing of Salman Rushdie, the British novelist remains a figure of hate for extremists across the Muslim world and though the level of outrage has dropped, the...More
Pope Francis will meet with migrants in Morocco and visit a training institute for imams that seeks to be a bulwark against Islamic extremism during his March 30-31 visit to the North African nation...More
Tens of thousands of Malians gathered Sunday in Bamako for a rally called by the country's chief Muslim leaders, who accuse the government of failing to bring stability back to the nation plagued by...More
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan, has been transferred from a secret location near the capital to another in Karachi, but is...More
Pope Francis on Tuesday hailed a "step forward" in dialogue with Islam after his historic visit to the United Arab Emirates, which must still "ripen like fruit". The pope made the statement in the...More
A Dutch former far-right MP and right-hand man of anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders set tongues wagging in the Netherlands on Tuesday after revealing he has converted to Islam. Freedom Party (PVV)...More
Amnesty International accused the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday of diverting arms supplied by Western and other states to "unaccountable militias accused of war crimes" in Yemen. The UAE and...More
President Ashraf Ghani is being pushed to the sidelines as the Taliban ignore his overtures for peace and negotiate instead with his friends and enemies over the future of Afghanistan. From Doha to...More
Some prayed while others cried as a dozen men surrounded by a sea of mourners carefully lowered the coffin of the Yazidi spiritual leader into a freshly dug grave on Tuesday. Prince Tahseen Said Ali...More
Three British lawmakers this week endorsed reports that women activists detained in Saudi Arabia have been tortured and said responsibility for what is likely a violation of international law could...More
Forty years after he defected from the shah's Imperial Guard to join the Islamic Revolution, Mohammad Reza Tajik, like many Iranians from that time, looks back wistfully at the youthful excitement...More
Pope Francis on Sunday became the first pontiff to set foot on the Arabian Peninsula, just hours after issuing his strongest condemnation yet of the war in Yemen, in which his host the United Arab...More
A raven perched on the shoulder of a woman with flaming hair is Iraqi artist Marwan Fathi's symbol for the terrible events he and his home city Mosul have had to endure. Three years under the...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said his government maintained "low-level" contact through its spy agency with the Syrian regime despite being one of its most fervent critics. Ankara...More
Egyptian lawmakers on Sunday tabled proposed constitutional changes that would allow President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to extend his rule beyond 2022, legislators said. The bill submitted to speaker Ali...More
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a poorly armed insurgent group operating around the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, released a 69-page report on Monday reiterating its commitment to fighting...More
Saba was just 25 when she left her design job in New York to work on a project renovating an art gallery back in her hometown Tehran. Within months, she won three more contracts to do up galleries...More
Election fever is sweeping Tunisia well ahead of parliamentary and presidential polls set for late 2019. President Beji Caid Essebsi has accused Prime Minister Youssef Chahed of seeking power through...More
At first, word spread that many of the Uighurs who had gone missing in Yining, a city cradled between mountains in north-west China, were being held inside a former Communist Party school. Some had...More
Iran is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its Islamic Revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed Shah, overturned 2,500 years of monarchical rule and brought hard-line Shia clerics to power. The...More
A prominent atheist video blogger says he has given up hope on life in Egypt and has launched a crowdfunding page called "Help Me Escape Egypt" to aid him in purchasing another nationality so he can...More
The United Nations plans to convene a second round of talks in March on settling the decades-old conflict in Western Sahara even though no major progress was made during the first round, diplomats...More
Ibrahim Masri has been calling Muslims to prayer for nearly 15 years in an Israeli city, but his voice is now being silenced because he took part in a bodybuilding contest. Israel's interior ministry...More
U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle said on Wednesday they have nominated jailed Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti – sentenced to life in prison for "separatism" – for the Nobel peace prize...More
Fed up by months of bread queues, price hikes and petrol shortages in Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir's hometown of Shendi, office worker Louay Mohamed Kheir, feels there's only one solution: "We need...More
Mauritania straddles the transition between the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa, its population is equally divided between Africans and Arabs. Berber women carefully veil themselves with colourful 'melhafas', their feet decorated with henna, while Wolof women show off their beautiful skin glistening with shea butter. By Pascal Mannaerts (www.parcheminsdailleurs.com)
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