An Indian court on Friday ordered a state government to explain why police interrogated children who performed a play critical of a new law, a lawyer said, in a case that has raised questions about...More
Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been charged with raping two women besides two others he was already facing accusations over, his lawyer told journalists on Thursday. The 57-year-old Ramadan , a...More
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi rejected international criticism of his country's human rights record with regard to its Muslim minority following a meeting with his German counterpart, Heiko Maas,...More
The Republican-dominated U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to rein in President Donald Trump's ability to launch military action on Iran, with eight GOP members joining Democrats to pass the resolution...More
Indonesia wasn't feeling the love for Valentine's Day on Friday as authorities arrested couples in one city, scolded stores over condom displays and warned students they would be reprimanded for...More
Turkey on Thursday threatened to use force against “radicals” in Syria’s Idlib province after Russia accused Ankara of failing to “neutralise” jihadist groups under a 2018 deal. “Force will be used...More
A Turkish court on Friday acquitted renowned novelist Asli Erdogan on charges of membership of an armed terror organisation. The court in Istanbul also acquitted Erdogan, who is living in exile in...More
Egypt's legislature on Monday gave its initial approval for toughening up already draconian anti-terrorism laws, with amendments that include life sentences and capital punishment for funding...More
Britain, the United States and Turkey were on Wednesday formally asked to arrest senior officials from the United Arab Emirates on suspicion of carrying out war crimes and torture in Yemen, three...More
Often treated as less than human in life, there has been little dignity in death for the sex workers of one of the world's biggest brothels: their bodies frequently tossed into unmarked graves or...More
Lebanon's new cabinet won a vote of confidence in parliament on Tuesday based in part on a financial rescue plan it put forward for grappling with a deep financial crisis. Parliament Speaker Nabih...More
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is 84 years old and in fragile health. Speaking Tuesday at the UN, he roundly rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian...More
Government forces seized control of a highway in northwest Syria for the first time since 2012 on Tuesday as they pressed their campaign to eradicate the last rebel strongholds in Idlib province and...More
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was facing a stunning defeat by a regional party Tuesday in elections in the national capital that were seen as a referendum on Modi’s...More
Dressed in hot pink and a colourful hijab, crouched down close to Ring 1 to cheer on the hounds, Aliya Taylor clearly stood out. "Like a sore thumb," she laughed. It's true, no one else at the...More
The United States has signalled to Iraq its willingness to extend sanctions waivers enabling the country to continue importing vital Iranian gas and electricity imports, three Iraqi officials said...More
Thousands of people marched in Morocco's capital on Sunday to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan for the Middle East and to oppose what they see as the Moroccan government's lenient...More
Italy on Sunday called on Egypt to release a young Egyptian researcher and activist based at Bologna University, saying it had reason to believe the security forces had tortured him. The incident has...More
Near the hometown of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini , workers at a small Iranian factory diligently add all 50 stars and 13 red-and-white bars to what are supposed to be U.S. flags and...More
Turkey will change tack in northwestern Syria if agreements over Idlib, a rebel bastion, continue to be violated, the country's defence minister warned in remarks published on Sunday. Turkey and...More
Egyptian Copt Amal Hanna says she is determined to fight the long-standing application of Islamic inheritance laws to Christians, as recent court victories embolden Coptic women. For decades,...More
Exhausted from days of driving in search of shelter in northwest Syria, 38-year-old Ghossoon has no idea where her family will go after fleeing regime and Russian bombardment. "Thank God we have this...More
Russian officials will arrive in Turkey on Saturday for talks aimed at stopping the Syrian government's offensive in Syria's northwestern Idlib region and halt a humanitarian catastrophe there,...More
A woman who married an Islamic State fighter in Syria as a teenager lost an appeal against the British government's decision to strip her of her citizenship on Friday. An immigration appeals tribunal...More
The U.N.'s special representative for Libya said on Thursday the country's warring sides are working to turn a provisional ceasefire into a formal agreement as they emerged from four days of talks, a...More
Egypt on Friday freed a pro-democracy activist who spent over four years in prison and rose to local prominence as one of the faces of the country's 2011 uprising, his lawyer said. Ramy Sayed, 31,...More
The Palestinians on Friday rejected U.S. allegations of incitement after a day of clashes and attacks left three Palestinians dead, including a member of the security forces,and wounded more than a...More
Iran wants to resolve differences with its Gulf foes Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates "as quickly as possible", Tehran's ambassador to Iraq told the Iraqi state news agency in an interview...More
Flights carrying patients needing urgent medical attention began from the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said, a long-sought confidence-building measure in...More
The Islamic State group has maintained its capabilities in Syria despite the death of its chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an independent U.S. government watchdog said in a report on Tuesday. An inspector...More
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday emphasised the UN's role as the guardian of international law in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, days before U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law...More
Germany's Dresden Semperopernball Association is reversing the controversial award of its Order of St. George to Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Ball director Hans-Joachim Frey decided that...More
Education authorities in the German city-state of Hamburg said on Monday that they would move urgently to change the law after a court ruled in favour of a Muslim pupil who wore a full-face veil to...More
Slovenia's first mosque opened in the capital Ljubljana on Monday after surmounting financial hurdles and right-wing opposition, 50 years after the initial request to build was made. Opponents of the...More
An outspoken French teenager has reignited a polarising debate over free speech in the country after an expletive-laden Instagram rant against Islam that has forced her to stay home from school on...More
U.S. presidential advisor Jared Kushner said on Sunday that if Palestinians are unable to meet the conditions of the new Middle East peace plan he crafted, Israel should not take "the risk to...More
Mustapha left his home in Guinea two years ago to make the arduous journey to Morocco, hoping to cross the fence separating the kingdom from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. "We're going to cross this...More
When Lebanon's protests erupted in October, thousands found a renewed commitment to their homeland and vowed to fix a country that has long fed its best and brightest to the diaspora. Then the...More
An Istanbul court on Friday sentenced 27 students from the country's top-ranking university to nearly a year in jail over 2018 protests against a Turkish military operation in northern Syria, state...More
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called for an end to fighting in northwestern Syria, where hundreds of combatants reportedly died this week as regime forces advanced on a rebel-held...More
Egypt has detained a retired doctor after the death of a 12-year-old girl on whom he performed female genital mutilation (FGM) sparked anger among women's rights activists. The victim's parents and...More
Hamas, the Islamist movement in de facto control of the Gaza Strip, on Sunday joined forces with opposition groups in the coastal enclave, to jointly oppose U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East...More
Recounting the hellish conditions of eight years spent on death row on blasphemy charges but also the pain of exile, Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi has broken her silence to give her first personal...More
Algeria on Thursday offered to host a reconciliation forum on Libya during a meeting of African leaders discussing ways to end the long drawn-out conflict, the African Union said. The talks were...More
An assault on rebel-held northwest Syria by government forces has pushed some 700,000 people to flee toward the Turkish border and raised the spectre of an international crisis, U.S. Special Envoy...More
Questions surfaced on Thursday over whether Israel would immediately seek to annex parts of the West Bank, after U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial peace plan called for extending Israeli...More
The UN Security Council called on Thursday for an "immediate cessation" of hostilities in Yemen, which it said were threatening a political process aimed at ending the war. "The Members of the...More
President Kais Saied of Tunisia, an ally of the United States, said on Thursday that the new U.S. plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians is the "injustice of the century". Tunisia is...More
Acclaimed Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni, who chronicled the popular uprising that toppled longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 , died on Monday aged 36 after a long illness, her...More
On a recent balmy evening at a Mumbai sports ground, writer Varun Grover , a pink flower tucked behind his ear, read his new poem to thousands of people protesting against India's new citizenship law...More
Around 40 young Tunisian volunteers gather on a bare hill in the central region of Siliana. Their weekend mission – revive a burned forest by planting Aleppo pine shoots. Hamdi, from the eastern city...More
U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East plan on Tuesday prompted a lukewarm response from Europe and the UN, and a furious rebuke from key Muslim countries who denounced it as betrayal of the...More
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
Turning away from Shia in Iran
''A Tsunami of Atheism''