Islamic clerics in Sri Lanka are asking Muslim women to continue to avoid wearing face veils until the government clarifies whether they can wear them again now that emergency rule has ended four...More
U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to back off his previous insistence on mediating in the Kashmir crisis in a closely watched encounter at the G7 in Biarritz on Monday. Restive India-administered...More
For 15 years, Yalqun Rozi skillfully navigated state bureaucracies to publish textbooks that taught classic poems and folk tales to millions of his fellow minority Uighurs in China's far western...More
Iraqi President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Monday condemned air strikes on Sunday that hit bases and weapons depots belonging to Iraqi paramilitary groups, which the factions...More
Without weapons, riot gear or even clean uniforms, a group of police officers sat on the sidewalk outside a shopfront in Srinagar, the main city in the Himalayan region of Indian-administered Kashmir...More
Two yellow burkas are on display at a television station in Kabul, bright versions of the blue ghostlike garments some women in the capital still wear. For the young women at Zan TV they are relics,...More
Pakistan on Monday launched an emergency anti-polio vaccination campaign as the total number of affected children rose to 58 in the current year, an official said. Three new cases of the crippling...More
Germany could be facing a political earthquake this coming weekend with the far-right looking to emerge in two state elections as the leading political force, a result that could send shockwaves...More
Sudan's Christians suffered decades of persecution under the regime of Islamist general Omar al-Bashir. Now they hope his downfall will give the religious freedom they have long prayed for. Deep...More
Moroccan women seeking to escape harassment at the beach are flocking to Rabat's vast new public swimming pool instead, but many still eschew swimsuits for fear of voyeurs and disapproving glances. "...More
Indian authorities on Sunday defended blocking opposition politicians from visiting Muslim-majority Kashmir, saying it was to "avoid controversy" weeks after stripping the restive region of its...More
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif held surprise talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Biarritz on Sunday, staying in the resort town for only a...More
Authorities in Istanbul banned the "Queer Olympix" over the weekend, making it the latest pro-LGBT event to be cancelled in Turkey . Some 130 participants were to compete in the third annual Queer...More
Syria's Kurds said on Saturday they would support the implementation of a U.S.-Turkey deal to set up a buffer zone in their areas along the Turkish border. The so-called "safe zone" agreed by...More
The leader of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah , Hassan Nasrallah, vowed on Sunday that the group will bring down any Israeli drones in Lebanese airspace, after two such aircraft went down over...More
Israel has carried out at least one strike against a weapons depot in Iraq, The New York Times reported on Thursday. There have been a series of blasts in Iraq over the past month at training camps...More
Iran is prepared to work on French proposals to salvage the international nuclear deal that Tehran signed with world powers in 2015, but it will not tolerate U.S. interference in the Gulf, its...More
Sexual violence carried out by Myanmar's security forces against the country's Muslim Rohingya minority was so widespread and severe that it demonstrates intent to commit genocide as well as warrants...More
Sudan's new prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, is a seasoned economist who faces the daunting task of rescuing his country's moribund economy. Hamdok built a career in continental and international...More
The music videos began appearing on social media within hours of the announcement by India's Hindu nationalist-led government that it was stripping statehood from the disputed region of Kashmir that...More
Opposition political parties held a public meeting i n the Indian capital on Thursday, demanding the release of hundreds of activists detained in Indian-administered Kashmir and the immediate...More
A 24-year-old Syrian man was sentenced to nine- and-a-half years in jail on Thursday for a knife killing that sparked racist street violence and far-right protests in the eastern German city of...More
Authorities in the main city of Indian Kashmir tightened security ahead of Friday prayers after separatists called for a protest march to a U.N. office, with streets bristling with paramilitary...More
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the world on the first international day to remember the victims of religious persecution to "step up to stamp out anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred, the...More
Bangladesh 's refugee commissioner said on Thursday that no Rohingya Muslims turned up to return to Myanmar from camps in the South Asian nation. Abul Kalam told a news conference that no one from...More
The German government has flown three children of German Islamic State militants to Frankfurt from the Iraqi city of Erbil, a federal police spokesman said late on Tuesday. It is the first time the...More
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned against abusing religion for political gains in his opening speech at the Religions for Peace World Assembly on Tuesday. "Religion can never be a...More
Rocked by the surprise early exit of a national team featuring Mohamed Salah at its home African Cup of Nations last month, Egyptian soccer is getting an emergency management team from FIFA. Soccer's...More
Few Muslim Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have responded to plans for their repatriation to Myanmar, and all who did said they don't want to go back, officials from the UN refugee agency and...More
Algerians launched an unprecedented protest movement in February , filling the streets of cities across the country and forcing the president out of office . Six months later, the movement is still...More
The top US negotiator on Afghanistan said on Tuesday that he was ready to conclude peace talks with the Taliban as he headed back to Qatar on a mission to end America's longest war. With President...More
US President Donald Trump offered on Tuesday to mediate the "explosive" situation in Kashmir amid mounting international concern over a flare-up in violence between India and Pakistan in the divided...More
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced a tough response to Syrian refugees who leave Germany for holidays in their home country. "If somebody, a Syrian refugee, regularly takes holidays in...More
In a new government crackdown on a pro-Kurdish party, Turkey on Monday removed from office the elected mayors of three cities in the mostly Kurdish -populated south-east region over their alleged...More
German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said she would seek an extension to her country's regional troop mandate as she arrived in Jordan on Monday, on her first foreign trip since taking...More
The US Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday was forced to postpone a conference it organised in the West Bank city of Ramallah after Palestinian officials and factions called for a boycott and threatened...More
Indonesia must change its laws to end child marriage in the world's most populous Muslim country where thousands of girls are trapped in a kind of "hell", an Indonesian lawmaker said on Monday...More
More than a dozen soldiers died on Monday during a "major attack" by "terrorist armed groups" in northern Burkina Faso, the army said, adding that it could be the deadliest ever against the armed...More
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came under pressure on Monday from the opposition Conservatives who warned against giving any assistance to Jack Letts – a dual citizen dubbed "Jihadi Jack" by...More
Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib sharply criticised Israel on Monday for denying them entry to the Jewish state and called on fellow members of Congress to visit while they cannot. Omar...More
The Iranian tanker caught in a standoff between Tehran and the West was sailing to Greece on Monday after leaving Gibraltar, shipping data showed, hours after the British territory rejected a US...More
The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, has accused the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of having right-wing extremist tendencies. "In my view...More
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he would likely wait until after Israel's elections on 17 September to release a peace plan for the region that was designed by White House senior...More
A Tunisian advocate of gay rights has filed a legal challenge against an electoral commission's decision to block his bid to stand for president in the country's upcoming election, the panel said on...More
Britain has revoked the citizenship of a dual national Muslim convert to the Islamic State group dubbed "Jihadi Jack" being held in northern Syria , leading Canada to accuse the UK of off-loading its...More
Following Israel's move to close the gates of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque, Jordan summoned the Israeli ambassador in Amman on Sunday, condemning the "Israeli violations" at the city's Temple Mount/...More
About 3,000 people in Bangladesh were left homeless after a massive fire consumed several hundred shanties in a slum on the northern outskirts of the capital city of Dhaka, government officials said...More
Almost a third of UK adults think Islam encourages Muslims to carry out acts of violence against non-Muslims , a survey suggests. It found nearly half (48 percent) think the religion is ‘incompatible...More
As soon as the sun is up, people in southern Tunisia rush out to buy a glass or bottle of legmi, a coveted date palm drink that is too delicate to be sold far from the oasis. At 7:00 am, at the busy...More
After a lone gunman killed 51 mosque worshippers in March , New Zealand's outpouring of collective grief and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's heartfelt support for the Muslim community won praise...More
Sudan's military rulers and protest leaders on Saturday are scheduled to sign a landmark deal reached after a bloody uprising which is meant to pave the way for civilian rule. The ceremony will...More
Human rights activists on Thursday criticised a United Nations decision to hold a conference in Cairo on torture with an Egyptian state organisation. "It's illogical for a country where torture is...More
Sheikh Hussein is a town in the Oromia region in south-eastern Ethiopia. The tomb of the 13th century Sufi Sheikh Hussein who introduced Islam to the area and is said to have performed many miracles is still visited by thousands of people. By Eric Lafforgue
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''