Pakistani police on Saturday arrested hundreds of supporters of a hardline cleric whose party recently paralysed the country with violent protests over the acquittal of a Christian woman accused of...More
The staunchly anti-migrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) has established itself as Germany's largest opposition party and now sits in all 16 state legislatures. Despite the party's rising fortunes,...More
Police in Muslim-majority Indonesia have questioned the head of one of its newest and most progressive parties, who is battling accusations of "Islamophobia" from rival politicians, after she said...More
Hundreds of female protesters took to the streets of the Syrian Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli on Sunday to call for an end to violence against women. Some banging large drums and others ululating...More
Protesters in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state demonstrated on Sunday against the planned repatriation of Rohingya Muslims from Bangladesh, referring to them as "runaway refugees". About 100 people...More
Tens of thousands of hard-line Hindus rallied on Sunday to demand a Hindu temple be built on a site in northern India where hard-liners in 1992 had attacked and demolished a 16th century mosque,...More
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged Muslims worldwide on Saturday to unite against the United States and assured Saudis they were "brothers" who had nothing to fear from Tehran. U.S. President...More
With songs like "I woke up gay" and "Lonely lesbian", LGBT+ punk band Shh...Diam! is making a rare splash in Malaysia, using music to fight long-running discrimination. The four-member group is a...More
Yemeni officials say the U.N. special envoy has arrived in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in efforts to halt hostilities between Saudi-led forces and Yemen's Shia rebels there and lay the...More
Australia unveiled a radical plan on Thursday to strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship even if they are native-born Australians. Acting after a series of Jihadist-inspired plots and attacks...More
The wife of a British academic sentenced to life in prison for espionage in the United Arab Emirates said Britain's foreign secretary assured her Thursday that the government was now working to get...More
Egypt revealed on Thursday that it was holding the daughter of Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater and five other people, three weeks after family members say they disappeared in a new...More
Lebanon marked 75 years of independence with a military parade on Thursday in Beirut, but many anxious Lebanese feel they have little to celebrate: the country's corruption-plagued economy is...More
India's government has dissolved the Kashmir state assembly in a sudden move that could lead to fresh elections and further turmoil in the disputed region also claimed by Pakistan. The move, which...More
Nearly eight years into the Syrian war, Selim still refuses to perform his military service, just like many fellow Druze from Suwayda province rejecting the regime's conscription call. "I don't want...More
As desperation swells in the squalid camps that are home to a million Rohingya refugees, long-dormant – and often deadly – trafficking networks are being revived, Bangladeshi officials warn...More
A former militia leader from Central African Republic known as "Colonel Rambo" will for the first time face judges in The Hague on Friday on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Alfred...More
For centuries, it was a magnet for artists across the region and churned out Iraq's best musicians – but recent years saw Mosul suffer a devastating musical purge. For three years until last summer,...More
Alper Yilmaz has no doubt where his home is. "My homeland is Austria, Vienna," he says. But with a far-right party sharing power and anti-immigration sentiment generally on the rise in Austria,...More
A suicide bomber targeted a gathering of hundreds of Islamic scholars in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing at least 50 people as Muslims marked the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. Another 83...More
A federal judge in Detroit on Tuesday declared unconstitutional a U.S. law banning female genital mutilation and also dismissed several charges against two doctors and others in the first U.S...More
Australian Muslim leaders said on Wednesday they would boycott a meeting with Prime Minister Scott Morrison after he said they needed to do more to halt terror attacks in the country. Morrison...More
Australian Muslim leaders said on Wednesday they would boycott a meeting with Prime Minister Scott Morrison after he said they needed to do more to halt terror attacks in the country. Morrison...More
Hundreds of Libyan Sufis packed the narrow streets of Tripoli's walled old city to celebrate the Prophet Muhammad's birthday on Tuesday, chanting hymns to the beat of drums and cymbals. Participants...More
Dozens of Indonesian mosques that cater to government workers are spreading radicalism and calling for violence against non-Muslims, the country's intelligence agency said on Monday. Its findings...More
Tunisia's new tourism minister sought to brush aside concerns about his Jewish background Tuesday by laying out plans to dramatically boost tourist visits to a terrorism-struck country. "It is a...More
Hundreds of Basra residents mourned a Muslim cleric on Sunday who police said was killed outside his home after he suggested that protesters should take up arms over poor public services in the city...More
Saudi women have mounted a rare protest against the abaya, posting pictures on social media wearing the obligatory body-shrouding robe inside out. The conservative petro-state has some of the world's...More
U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said on Sunday that he hoped the Taliban and Afghan government would strike a peace deal within five months – even as the militants inflict record high casualties on...More
Indonesian Budi Ahmad used to live openly as a gay man without fear of becoming a target for violence in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation. Not any more. The country of 260 million is in the...More
Syrian rebels said on Saturday that the Syrian army and their allies were intensifying attacks on a demilitarised zone in the northwest, in an attempt to undermine a Russian-Turkish deal that has...More
Iran and Iraq could raise their annual bilateral trade to $20 billion from the current $12 billion, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday, despite concerns over the impact of renewed U.S...More
A city in China's far-western Xinjiang region has ordered people who are "poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism", in contact with overseas terror groups, or act in a conservative Islamic...More
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation on Thursday seeking to strike back at Saudi Arabia over the death of a Saudi journalist at a consulate in Turkey and for its role in...More
It was just after dawn prayers when the caretaker at a Jakarta mosque noticed a man stealing from the donation box, prompting a furious mob to beat him to death – for taking the equivalent of $130...More
Australia's treasurer on Friday said Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad had a history of anti-Jewish statements, in an escalating war of words over the possibility Australia might move its...More
Abdul Rahman and his family drove all night in a rented car to escape the "absolute terror" of escalating violence in Afghanistan's southeast, joining thousands abandoning their villages in Hazara-...More
Normal life has returned to a Rohingya Muslim refugee camp in Bangladesh a day after government officials abandoned plans to begin repatriating residents to Myanmar after finding no one wanted to go...More
Two top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime were found guilty of genocide on Friday, in a landmark ruling almost 40 years after the fall of a brutal regime that presided over the deaths of a...More
Prominent Islamic theologian Tariq Ramadan, who is facing two potential rape charges, was granted bail on Thursday by a French court, a judicial source said. The Swiss-born scholar has been held in...More
One of Nigeria's leading and respected Islamic figures on Tuesday renewed calls to tackle endemic poverty and rapid population growth to help end deadly Boko Haram violence. More than 27,000 people...More
A Moroccan court has handed a 12-year prison sentence to a newspaper publisher charged with sexual assault, in a trial his lawyers said was politically motivated. The Casablanca court had found...More
Tunisian Nadia Borji says she wants to be considered as equal, but fears she will end up buried in her town's so-called "slaves" cemetery – because she is black. Black Tunisians, including some...More
Thousands of Afghans have fled to Ghazni city to escape fighting in two Hazara-dominated districts, with some describing the violence on Tuesday as the worst they had seen in the 17-year conflict...More
Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip have announced an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel after a severe escalation of violence threatened to descend into full-blown war. The groups,...More
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has amended a disputed land law that alarmed refugees and the countries hosting them, giving owners more time to register land claims. Law 10, passed in April, gave...More
A Cairo criminal court has added Islamist group Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya as well as 164 of its leaders and members to a list of terrorist entities, Egypt's official gazette said on Sunday. The group...More
Hugh Lovatt, a Policy Fellow with European Council on Foreign Relationsʹs Middle East and North Africa Programme, gave the following comment on Israelʹs 11 November raid on Gaza: "The intent behind...More
Saudi Arabia and the United States have agreed to end U.S. refuelling of aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition battling Houthi insurgents in Yemen, halting a divisive aspect of U.S. support to a war...More
The Taliban intensified attacks in a district heavily populated by minority Hazaras on Sunday, as U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad returned to the region as part of efforts to convince the group to end...More
Hollywood superstar Russell Crowe led tributes Saturday to "true gentleman" 74-year-old Sisto Malaspina, a doyen of Melbourne's thriving cafe culture who was stabbed to death in Friday's rush hour...More
The deaths of two young Saudi sisters, whose bodies washed up along the New York City waterfront last month, have shined a light on the often secretive and risky journeys Saudi women take to flee...More
With fighting around Damascus having ceased, everyday life is slowly returning to the Syrian capital. While the people there enjoy a touch of normality, life in the immediate surroundings could hardly be more different. By Rahel Klein and Marko Djurica
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"