At first, no one in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Arbil would drink the bitter coffee at Syrian refugee Abdussamad Abdulqadir's cafe. But now it's a hit, part of a growing cultural exchange. Since...More
An Iranian lawmaker on Tuesday offered a $3-million reward to "anyone who kills" U.S. President Donald Trump to avenge the assassination of a top general, semi-official news agency ISNA reported...More
There are currently 74 German nationals in Turkey who cannot leave the country due to travel bans, the German Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday. The number has nearly doubled since the end of...More
A lawyers' association in Pakistan has triggered criticism by asking its Muslim members to submit a certificate of faith declaring belief in the finality of the prophet Muhammad. The move by the...More
Egypt's state of emergency is set to reach the three-year mark by April, after the government announced it would extend it by another three months from Monday next week. The North African country has...More
Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert held in an Iranian prison says she rejected an offer to become a spy in exchange for her release, British media reported on Tuesday. A Melbourne University...More
India's top court on Wednesday began hearing dozens of petitions seeking the revocation of amendments to the citizenship law, following nationwide protests and a security crackdown that led to more...More
The UN Security Council called on Libya's warring sides on Tuesday to quickly reach a ceasefire that would pave the way for a political process aimed at ending conflict in the oil-rich state. The...More
A Pakistani court has sentenced more than 80 Islamists to 55 years in prison each after protests linked to the 2018 acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of blasphemy, one of their senior...More
More than 2,000 Turkey-backed Syrian fighters are now in Libya, and further recruits are in training, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights . Turkey, a supporter of the Libya's...More
Lebanese anti-riot police dispersed stone-throwing protesters with tear gas in Lebanon's capital on Sunday, as heavy rain capped a weekend of rare violence that wounded hundreds. Medics said 145...More
In the old Jewish quarter of Morocco's coastal city of Essaouira, a newly-opened "House of Memory" has been dedicated to the historic coexistence of its Jewish and Muslim communities. Nestled in a...More
EU foreign ministers are due on Monday to discuss the outcome of international talks aimed at overcoming the conflict in Libya, held in Berlin the previous day. International leaders, including some...More
World leaders committed to ending all foreign meddling in Libya's civil war at a Berlin summit on Sunday, and to uphold a weapons embargo as part of a broader plan to end the long-running conflict...More
Iran still remains in its 2015 nuclear deal despite rolling back its commitments to the pact, Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Monday, criticising European powers for failing to...More
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that three European states who were party to a nuclear pact from which the United States has already withdrawn could not be trusted, and...More
Australia's foreign minister said on Friday she had raised with her Iranian counterpart the fate of an imprisoned Australian-British academic, who has gone on hunger strikes and urged the Australian...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed assurances on Thursday from Libyan General Khalifa Haftar that he would stick to a cease-fire as world powers prepare to gather in Berlin for a summit on the...More
Fahima Mirzaie set up a dance school for women in the Afghan capital last year, hoping to help her students fight depression and find inner peace in a war-torn country where dancing is widely...More
Today she travels the world, attends a red-carpet movie premiere and sits on panels with astronauts, former presidents and feminist icons. But in the years after 9/11, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh was just a...More
Iran's supreme leader is expected to lead the main weekly Muslim prayers in Tehran on Friday, after a traumatic month in which the country had appeared on the brink of war with the United States and...More
Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar left Moscow on Tuesday without signing a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending nine months of fighting, leaving the future of a fragile truce uncertain. The commander's...More
President Donald Trump circulated a fake image on Monday depicting congressional Democrats' top-ranked leaders in traditional Muslim attire in front of the Iranian flag, drawing criticism that he was...More
India's southern Kerala on Tuesday became the first state to legally challenge a new citizenship law that has triggered nationwide demonstrations. The Kerala government in its petition to the Supreme...More
Pain mixed with anger – an Iranian-Canadian student who lost his mother when Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner with 57 Canadian nationals onboard shares his grief. "Once you start to cope with the...More
President Donald Trump's embrace of anti-government protesters in Iran is another departure from his predecessors, who feared such overt support could backfire and inadvertently help hard-liners in...More
For all of the Trump administration's insistence that the threat of an “imminent'' attack led to the American drone strike on Iran's top general, U.S. officials behind the scenes say the strike was...More
Iran will punish all those responsible for the accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane, President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on Tuesday, adding that the "tragic event"...More
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims raised their hands and prayed for the welfare of the world on Sunday, wrapping up a three-day Islamic congregation near Bangladesh's capital. The Biswa Ijtema, or...More
Indian police baton-charged protesters on Sunday to stop them reaching Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cavalcade as nationwide protests against a bitterly disputed citizenship law entered a second...More
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and European Council President Charles Michel discussed Libya's conflict on Sunday amid intense international efforts to resolve the years-long feud in the...More
Braving the snow and cold, Abrar Ahmad, 18, is one of thousands of Kashmiris who regularly spend hours journeying on a packed train just so that they can go online as the region grapples with the...More
King Abdullah of Jordan on Monday warned that the Islamic State group was re-grouping and was once again on the rise in the Middle East. Months after the ousting of IS last year from their last...More
Iraqi officials fear economic "collapse" if Washington imposes threatened sanctions, including blocking access to a U.S.-based account where Baghdad keeps oil revenues that feed 90 percent of the...More
Iranian police and security forces fired both live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against the Islamic Republic's initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner,...More
Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Middle East's longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup and pulled his Arabian sultanate into modernity while carefully balancing diplomatic...More
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok visited the rebel bastion of Kauda in the South Kordofan region's Nuba Mountains on Thursday, the first senior Khartoum official to travel there since clashes...More
India's Supreme Court said on Friday that the indefinite shut-down of the Internet in Kashmir was unwarranted, rebuking the government for the communications lockdown imposed after it withdrew the...More
Concern mounted on Thursday in Iran over the whereabouts of the Islamic Republic's only woman to have won an Olympic medal, who is believed to want to settle in The Netherlands. Kimia Alizadeh...More
After bearing the brunt of jihadist dynamite and looting by thieves, the archaeological treasures of Afghanistan's Bamiyan province are facing a new and possibly more daunting threat: climate change...More
Unidentified planes struck targets in Syria near the border with Israel on Friday, reports said, triggering ‘‘a huge explosion'' amid soaring tensions in the region between the U.S. and Iran. The...More
Iranian newspapers proclaimed the country's attack on U.S. forces in Iraq to be "a dark night for Americans", and Washington's "first admission of failure in history". On the bustling streets of...More
Iran has invited Boeing to take part in the investigation into a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week at a time of soaring tensions between Washington and Tehran, killing all 176 people...More
The speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Mohammed al-Halbusi, on Wednesday condemned a salvo of retaliatory Iranian missile strikes on Iraqi bases housing U.S.-led troops as a "violation of Iraqi...More
Sometimes Arshad Hussain disappears. He will be sitting on the bed, watching relatives, neighbours and journalists pour into his house, when suddenly scenes of his dead son wash over him. "I find...More
At least a dozen people were injured in India on Tuesday in fresh clashes between student groups loyal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opponents with the main opposition Congress party, police...More
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi appeared at Coptic Christmas Eve Mass on Monday and praised the links between the country’s Christian and Muslim faithful, saying they have prevented the...More
Iran has dropped espionage charges that had been laid against an Iranian-French academic detained in the Islamic republic since last year, her lawyer said on Tuesday. "The espionage charge has been...More
More than 250 civilians have been killed by Islamic extremists in Burkina Faso in less than a year, Human Rights Watch said in a new report on Monday, as attacks increase and armed groups gain more...More
Iran fired missiles on Wednesday at Iraqi bases housing the U.S. military, officials in Washington and Tehran said, in the first act of the Islamic republic's promised revenge for the U.S. killing of...More
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians thronged Tehran’s streets on Monday for the funeral of military commander Qassem Soleimani , killed by a U.S. drone strike last week, and his daughter said his death...More
Turkish lawmakers are set to back a bill on Thursday that allows troop deployment in Tripoli, but that is likely to begin with military support, training and drones in the air rather than boots on...More
Behind a suffocating political system and inquisitive cliches, Iranian youth dream of a break with the system while proudly defending their culture. By Gwenvaël Engel
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''