Kashmir's apple orchards, a backbone of the economy that supports nearly half the people living there, are deserted, crops rotting on the trees at a time when they should be bustling with harvesters...More
Sudan peace talks stalled before they began in Juba on Wednesday as a key rebel grouping said it refused to negotiate with Khartoum, claiming government forces were still bombarding its territory...More
Oded Kotler made his way discretely through the crowd taking in the acrobats and clowns performing at a festival in Acre, an ancient city along the Mediterranean in northern Israel. On a warm autumn...More
The Committee to Protect Journalists and Amnesty International are calling for the Egyptian government to release a journalist who they say has been detained by security officials and investigate...More
The 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee finally managed to escape after three months as a prisoner in a Cairo apartment where she was repeatedly gang raped, only to realise that she had become...More
Shelling and gunfire resounded around the northeast Syrian town of Ras al Ain on Friday, a day after Turkey agreed with the United States to pause its offensive in Syria for five days to let Kurdish...More
With each serving of French press coffee poured delicately into a cup with steamed milk, 21-year-old Afghan refugee Fatemeh Jafari lives out a dream in her basement coffee shop in Tehran that is out...More
The White House is warning Chinese shipping companies against turning off their ships' transponders to hide Iranian oil shipments in violation of U.S. sanctions, two senior administration officials...More
Yemen's Saudi-backed government and southern separatists are expected to announce a deal on Thursday to end a power struggle in the southern port of Aden that fractured an Arab coalition battling the...More
Turkey vowed to press ahead with its offensive in northern Syria on Tuesday despite U.S. sanctions and growing calls for it to stop, while Syria's Russia-backed army moved on the key city of Manbij...More
German daily Die Welt laments the role of Europe in the latest flare-up in the Syrian conflict, arguing that the region is powerless in the face of a Turkish invasion. In a Wednesday editorial, the...More
President Donald Trump has united disparate political factions in the United States against his policy of paving the way for a Turkish invasion of Syria, while also sowing confusion abroad which...More
Egypt has detained two prominent activists who played key roles in the 2011 revolution, activists and a rights group said, the latest in a wave of arrests in recent weeks. Blogger and journalist...More
Classical pianist Igor Levit dedicated an award he received in Berlin on Sunday to the victims of a right-wing terrorist attack in the city of Halle. "After the NSU, after countless attacks on...More
Conservative academic Kais Saied, a political outsider, was headed for a landslide victory in Tunisia's presidential run-off, sweeping aside his rival, media magnate Nabil Karoui, exit polls said. In...More
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday likened China's treatment of more than one million Uighur Muslims to George Orwell's "1984" novel, saying the Communist Party was detaining and abusing...More
European states are trying to fast-track a plan to shift thousands of foreign Islamic State militants out of Syrian prison camps and into Iraq, after the outbreak of fresh conflict in Syria raised...More
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel-Mahdi said on Saturday that his government had formed a committee to investigate the deaths of protesters in recent demonstrations. His announcement comes a day after...More
Syria's Kurds have announced a ground-breaking deal with Damascus on a Syrian troop deployment near the border with Turkey, as Ankara presses a deadly cross-border offensive that has sparked an...More
Tourist visas for Saudi Arabia are now available online and on arrival to holidaymakers who already hold a visa from the United States, Britain or the EU's Schengen zone, expanding eligibility beyond...More
The United States appears to be heading toward a full military withdrawal from Syria amid growing chaos, cries of betrayal and signs that Turkey's invasion could fuel a broader war. Defence Secretary...More
China's all-encompassing security crackdown in Xinjiang has turned the northwest region – home to most of the country's ethnic Uighur population – into a place activists describe as an open air...More
China is destroying burial grounds where generations of Uighur families have been laid to rest, leaving behind human bones and broken tombs in what activists call an effort to eradicate the ethnic...More
French President Emmanuel Macron vowed an "unrelenting fight" against Islamist extremists on Tuesday at a memorial ceremony for four Paris police staff stabbed to death last week by a radicalised...More
Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir will allow tourists back into the region two months after ordering them to leave because of security concerns amid an Indian crackdown, an official said on...More
Despite pulling off a safer presidential election than expected, Afghanistan looks headed for a prolonged period of political uncertainty, with the two front-runners claiming victory before ballots...More
Iraq has been plunged into a new cycle of instability that potentially could be the most dangerous this conflict-scarred nation has faced, barely two years after declaring victory over the Islamic...More
One is a 19-year-old construction worker charged with aiding militants against Indian troops, the other is one of Kashmir's most prominent lawyers, accused of being "an incorrigible secessionist"...More
The European Union's top migration official is urging EU member states to back a temporary plan to quickly get migrants off boats in the Mediterranean Sea and distribute them among willing countries...More
Iraq's government issued a second package of proposed social reforms on Tuesday in an attempt to meet the demands of anti-government protesters who have demonstrated nationwide for eight days, with...More
Germany warned on Tuesday of a repeat of the chaotic influx of migrants that caught the European Union unprepared in 2015, as Greece and Cyprus sounded the alarm over a resurgence of arrivals from...More
The Turkish military, together with the Free Syrian Army, will cross the Syrian border "shortly", President Tayyip Erdogan’s communications director said early on Wednesday, as Ankara starts a...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that his army was ready to launch operations against Kurdish militants in Syria at any moment following the U.S. announcement that it would not...More
Police blocked a march on Sunday by thousands of protesters in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir who wanted to move toward the highly militarised Line of Control that divides the territory between...More
Pope Francis has added 13 new cardinals to the top of the Catholic hierarchy, telling them they must show God's compassion to those who suffer to be faithful to their ministry. Francis presided over...More
Saudi Arabia has introduced new regulations allowing women in the conservative kingdom to rent a hotel room without a male guardian and foreign men and women to share a room without proof of marriage...More
Tunisian elections held on Sunday amid a number of political and economic challenges for the country were expected to deliver a fractious parliament. Around 41.3 percent of registered voters cast...More
Iran has arrested an Instagram celebrity famous for drastically altering her appearance through cosmetic surgery, Tasnim news agency has reported. The social media star known as Sahar Tabar was...More
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said "enemies" were trying to drive a wedge between Tehran and Baghdad in a tweet on Monday following deadly unrest in neighbouring Iraq. "#Iran and #Iraq...More
Top officials from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, key players in a coalition fighting Yemeni rebels, have discussed military co-operation following a positive response by Riyadh to a truce offer from the...More
Iraq's military admitted on Monday that "excessive force" was used in a district of the capital overnight where a mass protest led to clashes that medics and security forces said left 13 people dead...More
Police have launched a probe into a complaint that a cut-out of India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi was defaced at a museum during his 150th birth anniversary celebrations this week, officials...More
Journalists in Indian Kashmir on Thursday staged a small silent protest against what they say has been a "media gag" by Indian authorities that has badly affected their ability to work in the...More
The latest on developments in Iraq, amid deadly violence over anti-government protests (all times local): 3:45 p.m. An influential Iraqi Shia cleric whose political coalition came in first in last...More
At least 46 Iraqis have died in recent days in clashes between protesters and the security forces during street demonstrations that caught the authorities by surprise. They were the first major...More
At least 25 Malian soldiers have been killed and about 60 are missing after jihadists attacked two military posts in the country's fragile central region, the Malian government said on Tuesday. The...More
Horrific revelations of torture and abuse at a compound billing itself as a Koranic reform school in northern Nigeria have shone a spotlight on Islamic institutes unregulated by the authorities. Last...More
Police in Indian Kashmir have detained 144 children, including a nine-year-old, since early August when the government revoked the disputed region's special status and imposed a lockdown, according...More
Sitting in a wheelchair beside a metal fence in a camp in northern Syria, nine-year-old Ruqaya Mohammad raises a scarf over her face to hide from journalists. The Egyptian girl lost her left eye, her...More
Nearly two months after the Indian government changed the status of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, new tensions are brewing in Ladakh, a remote and picturesque part of that territory that...More
Jamal Khashoggi's friends, rights activists and press freedom groups will hold a memorial in Istanbul on Wednesday outside Riyadh's consulate, where the Saudi journalist was murdered. The event on...More
Outlawed and repressed, the Muslim Brotherhood was not behind the recent protests in Egypt, but has sought to capitalise on a new wave of dissent, analysts say. The protests first erupted on 20...More
The attempted attack on a synagogue in Halle is not the first in recent years. Even after the horrors of the Nazi era, anti-Semitic incidents occur in Germany — on individuals, memorials and Jewish places of worship. By Bettina Baumann
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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''