Indonesia's Joko Widodo was on track to be re-elected leader of the world's third-biggest democracy as unofficial results put him in a comfortable lead over firebrand ex-general Prabowo Subianto...More
"When we arrived here, there were TV crews and photographers, but now nobody comes," said Abdallah, amazed to see a journalist turn up at his Sudanese refugee camp in Chad. He fled over the border...More
Hundreds of Algerians rallied on Wednesday outside the offices of the country's biggest union, calling for its chief to quit over his ties to ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. "Free the union,"...More
Egypt on Wednesday set a referendum for 20-22 April on sweeping constitutional changes including amendments that could extend President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's rule until 2030. The push to extend the...More
Islamic officials in Malaysia have launched an investigation into a public event that discussed women who stop wearing the hijab, according to a group of female activists who spoke at the forum. The...More
Voting began in the second phase of India's general elections on Thursday amid massive security and a lockdown in parts of the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Srinagar is one of 97...More
Turkey's main opposition candidate took office as Istanbul mayor on Wednesday after a stunning victory over President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party, but the new head of the country's largest city still...More
United Nations Security Council diplomats began negotiations on Tuesday on a British-drafted resolution that would demand an immediate ceasefire in Libya after forces loyal to commander Khalifa...More
Eleven Saudi women's rights activists were due back in court on Wednesday in a trial that has drawn international criticism, just days after campaigners reported a new crackdown on their supporters...More
Weeks of anti-government protests have helped Algerian journalists shake off the chokehold of state-imposed censorship, but their work remains complicated and is often contested by demonstrators...More
The head of Sudan's ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) has fired the country's three highest-ranking public prosecutors, the council said on Tuesday, after protesters demanded an overhaul of...More
Tens of millions of Indonesians voted in presidential and legislative elections Wednesday after a campaign that pitted the moderate incumbent against an ultranationalist former general whose fear-...More
The protesters in Sudan wave national flags, chant "freedom" and bang plastic drums in the sweltering summer heat, while others man makeshift clinics or prepare meals for fellow demonstrators. For...More
U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, who is engaged in an intensifying feud with President Donald Trump, has raised nearly $830,000 in the first quarter for her re-election campaign, according to campaign...More
A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Kobani, a town besieged by Islamic State for months and where the tide turned against the militants four years ago. The...More
An independent rights watchdog on Monday raised concerns about incidents in Pakistan of forced conversions and marriages of girls from the country's minority Hindu and Christian community to Muslim...More
In yet more upheaval for Algeria since the ousting of long-time leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the controversial head of the country's constitutional council Tayeb Belaiz quit on Tuesday bowing to...More
For the third day, thousands of people continued a sit-in protest on Sunday outside Sudan's military headquarters, demanding a peaceful transition to civilian rule. They sang protest songs and held...More
After years of anxiously waiting in cramped prison cells, appointments with the noose can come fast to the many on Egypt's death row. Leila's brother Amr was hanged in February. The news of his...More
The UN envoy for Syria held "substantial" talks on Sunday in Damascus with Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on efforts to find a political settlement to the country's eight-year-long war. "We have had...More
A proposal to ban many public employees from wearing religious symbols is creating a fiery debate in the Canadian province of Quebec, where people are fighting to freely practice their religion - or...More
Dozens of Algerian judges and lawyers on Saturday gathered in the capital Algiers, backing popular demands for a radical change in the country after veteran president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced...More
Tens of millions of Indonesians will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections this week after campaigns focused on the economy, but with political Islam looming ever larger in the world's...More
Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide blast in Pakistan's Quetta city on Friday that killed 20 people and left 48 more injured. The group released a photograph of the bomber along with...More
Top Democrats on Saturday rushed to defend Representative Ilhan Omar after President Donald Trump re-tweeted a video that was edited to suggest she was being dismissive of the significance of the...More
Thousands of Pakistanis clad in white gathered in the central city of Jhang on Friday to make a human image of Christchurch's Al Noor mosque, where 50 people were killed by a white supremacist four...More
Hundreds of Algerians on Thursday protested against newly appointed president Abdelkader Bensalah and demanded he resign, a day after he set the country's presidential polls for July. The elections...More
Sudan's army has ousted veteran president Omar al-Bashir, but protestors against his iron-fisted rule denounced a "coup" and thousands rallied outside army headquarters as a night-time curfew kicked...More
Egypt blocked a petition website set up to collect signatures against an upcoming constitutional referendum hours after the platform was launched on Tuesday, an Internet monitor said. The proposed...More
Indians thronged to vote on Thursday at the start of a mammoth general election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a second term after campaigning on a plank of national security following...More
Forces loyal to Libya's internationally recognised government and a rival commander battled for control of the capital on Thursday after UN chief Antonio Guterres warned the country faced a "very...More
Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party on Thursday said it would appeal to electoral authorities to annul elections in five districts and towns after some of its successful candidates were blocked from...More
Algeria's interim president, in a televised speech, promised on Tuesday to organise free elections within 90 days following weeks of protests that led to the resignation of leader Abdelaziz...More
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on path for victory in Israel's elections on Wednesday after nearly complete results put him in position to form a right-wing coalition and further extend his...More
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir came under mounting pressure on Tuesday as three Western nations pushed for a political transition after months of unprecedented protests against his rule. Thousands...More
A German woman who joined the Islamic State jihadist group went on trial on Tuesday accused of the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi "slave" girl die of thirst in the sun. The case against...More
On Tuesday the United Nations postponed a Libyan national conference aimed at drawing up an election roadmap because of fighting raging near the capital, in another setback to peace efforts. The move...More
UN refugee chief sees more 'poison' focused against migrants The U.N. refugee chief said on Tuesday he has never seen "such toxicity, such poison" in politics, the media, social media and every day...More
A new park that uses gardens and landscaping to tell stories from Islam's sacred text has opened in Dubai, offering locals and tourists a day out with a religious twist. Quranic Park attracted some...More
Indonesia's Supreme Court has upheld a jail sentence for a mother of four who was convicted last year on blasphemy charges for complaining that her neighbourhood mosque was too loud. In a March 27...More
The number of global executions fell by a third last year, making it the lowest number of executions in at least a decade, according to a report released on Wednesday by human rights group Amnesty...More
Algeria's parliament will meet on Tuesday to elect a new interim president after long-serving leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika, yielding to military pressure and nationwide protests, resigned last week...More
A top-level inquiry will have until December to establish if New Zealand could have done anything to prevent the attacks by a suspected white supremacists on two mosques in Christchurch that left 50...More
Forces under Libya's UN-backed government said on Sunday that they had started a counter-attack against the forces of Khalifa Haftar after he launched an offensive to seize Tripoli, escalating an...More
Dozens of people protested in London on Saturday against new Islamic laws in Brunei that punish gay sex and adultery by stoning offenders to death, while the University of Oxford said it will...More
The International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled that a crimes against humanity case can be brought against Saif al-Islam, son of the later Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, rejecting a challenge from his...More
Thousands of Sudanese protesters braved tear-gas on Monday to keep demonstrating for a third day outside army headquarters as they urged the military to back calls for President Omar al-Bashir to...More
Russia on Sunday blocked a UN Security Council statement that would have called on forces loyal to Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar to halt their advance on Tripoli, diplomats said. Moscow insisted...More
As she patrols for cow smugglers, Sadhvi Kamal, a Hindu holy woman in a saffron robe, rides in a white SUV with a sticker on the rear window displaying a cow framed by swords and rifles. The words in...More
Thirty-seven people believed to be Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar were found on a beach in northern Malaysia on Monday, police said, the latest arrivals in what authorities fear could be a new wave of...More
The Israeli army announced that access points to Israel from the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank will be closed for 24 hours on Tuesday as Israel holds a general election. The decision to close all...More
"Anything you can do I can do while bleeding," read one defiant poster at a recent women's march in Pakistan, while another demanded: "Keep your dick pics to yourself". Then came the backlash,...More
For more than 10 years, Pascal Mannaerts has been travelling the globe as a freelance photographer. Seeking to do justice to the beauty, elegance and grace of Islamic monuments, he has compiled a selection of his favourite shots taken in Asia, India, Africa and the Middle East.
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"