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
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he would ask parliament for immunity, weeks after the embattled premier was indicted on a range of corruption charges. The move is expected to...More
Supporters of Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups who stormed the U.S . Embassy’s perimeter and hurled rocks in two days of protests withdrew on Wednesday after Washington dispatched extra...More
Assailants attacked several protest camps in north and south Lebanon early on Tuesday, according to state-run media, demolishing tents and burning down others as anger boiled over in the capital...More
Christians in the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy cities such as Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, Israeli authorities have announced. Gazan Christians will be...More
Six Malaysian Muslims have reportedly been handed one-month jail terms for skipping prayers in violation of Islamic laws, sparking fresh concern on Wednesday about rising religious conservatism in...More
Xiyue Wang, A Princeton University scholar who was freed from Iran this month after three years in captivity said on Monday that his release "is a victory of humanity and diplomacy across nations and...More
India's Supreme Court on Wednesday postponed hearing pleas challenging the constitutionality of a new citizenship law that has sparked opposition and massive protests across the country. The court...More
In reaction to the announcement of the Sakharov prize by the EU parliament for her father Ilham Tohtis, Jewher Ilhan, told Sumi Somaskandam from the Deutsche Welle: "I hope that this prize could help...More
2022 host Qatar has given the clearest indication yet that LGBT fans will be welcome, engaging with gay supporters as it hosts the FIFA World Cup – despite criminalising homosexuality. Organisers of...More
Qatar's large Egyptian community is clamouring to welcome their country's "icon" Mohamed Salah when he comes to the Gulf this week as Liverpool kick off their Club World Cup campaign. B ut a regional...More
A court in Pakistan on Tuesday handed a death sentence to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on treason charges for suspending the country's constitution in 2007. The three-judge special court...More
Outraged concert-goers shouting "revolution, revolution" hounded former Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora from a Christmas concert at the American University of Beirut on Sunday night. Lebanese...More
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 181 people suspected of ties to a group blamed for a 2016 coup attempt, the Ankara public prosecutor's office said. The detentions came after the capital's public...More
As dusk fell on Sunday, police smashed their way into the main library of New Delhi's Jamia Millia University, firing tear gas shells as scores of terrified students barricaded doors and hid inside...More
India's new citizenship law has stoked fears that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to remould the world's largest democracy as a Hindu nation, undermining the secular and pluralist roots of the...More
Algeria's unpopular presidential election was meant to reset the country's politics after months of crisis, but it exposed a rigid system determined to perpetuate itself, analysts say. "You get the...More
Amnesty International on Monday said that at least 304 people were killed and thousands more injured between 15 and 18 November as Iranian authorities "crushed protests using lethal force." In a...More
Jeremy Issacharoff, the Israeli ambassador to Germany, has defended Germany's UN ambassador against accusations of anti-Semitism. "We can have differences at times on policy issues and that does not...More
The United Nations extended the work of its Palestinian refugee agency for another three years on Friday, despite fierce opposition from the United States and Israel. The current mandate was due to...More
A supporter of Iraqi anti-government demonstrators was gunned down in Baghdad, a police source said on Sunday, the fourth backer of the protest movement to be killed in two weeks. Mohammed al-...More
In a riot of colour, acrobatics and drum beats, Morocco's gnawa artists joyously celebrated the inclusion of their ancient art-form in UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity...More
Protests over a new citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses across India on Monday as critics said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government was pushing a partisan agenda in...More
Tear gas engulfed central Beirut as security forces chased protesters near Lebanon's parliament on Sunday in a second night of street clashes that wounded dozens of people. Protesters had returned...More
"Last seen: Friday, 9:18pm." About an hour after gunmen began attacking a protest encampment in Iraq's capital at the weekend, Mustafa - who had slept there for weeks- went offline. In the days since...More
Algerians awaited the outcome on Friday of a widely unpopular presidential election marred by attacks on polling stations and the lowest turnout in the country's history. The election had been...More
With border guards, clean-up crews and hospitals, Iraqi protesters have created a mini-state in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, offering the kinds of services they say their government has failed to provide...More
Internet access has been cut in India's northeastern city of Guwahati after violent protests over a new citizenship law saw two demonstrators shot dead by police, authorities said on Friday. The...More
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Benny Gantz prepared on Thursday for their third election campaigns in a year, with the country trapped in its worst political crisis in decades...More
China is ramping up a global campaign to promote its own vision of human rights, inviting the likes of North Korea and Syria to a forum on the topic and drafting other countries to back its policies...More
Lawyers seeking to halt what they allege is ongoing genocide in Myanmar slammed leader Aung San Suu Kyi's defence of her country's armed forces, saying on Thursday that the Nobel Peace Prize winner...More
A divisive citizenship bill has been signed into law in India, a move that comes amid widespread protests in the country's northeast that could force the cancellation of a visit by Japan's Prime...More
A self-exiled Egyptian businessman and dissident who has accused President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi of corruption has been sentenced in absentia to five years in jail for tax evasion, a judicial source...More
The Christmas tree in the middle of a central Baghdad plaza occupied by anti-government protesters is bare, save for portraits of those killed under fire from security forces. A tribute, the...More
Two French academics detained in Iran for six months have lost a bid to be released on bail and their case will now go before the Revolutionary Court, Iranian media reported. Roland Marchal, a...More
At the sixth Assembly of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, in Abu Dhabi, Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah, President of the Forum, will inaugurate the charter of the "New Alliance of...More
Protesters burned tyres and blocked highways and rail tracks in India's remote northeast for a second day on Wednesday as the upper house of Parliament began debating legislation that would grant...More
Pakistani authorities are struggling to deal with an infestation of desert locusts in one of the country's poorest regions where millions of the insects are eating crops, raising fears of food...More
Boko Haram militants have killed at least 275 people this year in Cameroon's Far North region despite government claims back in January that the Islamic extremist group had waned in the area, Amnesty...More
"As Nobel Peace laureates, we call on Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, to publicly acknowledge the crimes, including genocide, committed against the Rohingya. We are deeply concerned...More
Former pro-democracy symbol Aung San Suu Kyi takes centre-stage on Wednesday at the U.N.'s top court as she seeks to defend Myanmar's armed forces against genocide allegations over its crackdown on...More
Two major parties in Tunisia said last Friday that they would not join the government of prime minister-designate Habib Jemli, meaning any coalition he does build may be fragile and increasing the...More
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani announced Sunday a "budget of resistance" against U.S. sanctions targeting the country's vital oil sector, backed by a $5 billion Russian investment. Rouhani said the...More
Algeria's first-ever presidential debate seems to have failed to persuade the country's pro-democracy protesters to take part in next week's election. The five candidates recited their platforms...More
Lebanese businessman Samir al-Khatib said on Sunday that he has withdrawn his candidacy to head the next government and that consensus was building for Prime Minister Saad Hariri to hold the post...More
A prominent civil society activist was shot dead late on Sunday in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala while returning home from anti-government protests, a neighbour told journalists. Fahem al-Tai, 53,...More
Thousands of Algerian protesters gathered in their capital Algiers on Friday in what could be a last large-scale attempt to pressure the country's authorities to cancel the December 12 presidential...More
Ali Milani didn't speak English when he came to Britain from Iran at the age of five. Twenty years later, he's the biggest individual threat to Boris Johnson at this week's election. The 25-year-old...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''