Germany's Muslim population has risen to around 5.5 million, equivalent to some 6.5 percent of the population, according to an official government survey published on Wednesday. The Federal Office...More
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday elections would be held only when Israel allows voting in Jerusalem, a stance likely to delay polls in a society that last voted in 2006...More
Despite its fury with the United States for calling the Ottoman massacre of Armenians a genocide, Turkey is for now avoiding a showdown which could hurt its fragile economy and scupper hopes of...More
The U.N. Security Council held an informal meeting on Thursday focusing on the repatriation of more than 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries from Libya, a demand of the country's transitional...More
A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel killed at least 44 people and injured about 150 early on Friday, medical officials said. It...More
After 20 years, America is ending its "forever war'' in Afghanistan. Announcing a firm withdrawal deadline, President Joe Biden cut through the long debate, even within the U.S. military, over...More
The stampede that killed 44 people at an Israeli religious festival is a "national catastrophe", a spokesman for Israel's emergency rescue service Zaka said on Friday. "It is an unbearable incident...More
Ten years after the killing of its founder Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida bears little resemblance to the terror network that struck the U.S. on September 11, 2001, but remains a threat even under a...More
A Turkish woman who shot and killed her husband after years of violent abuse has been freed by a court that ruled that she was acting in self-defence. The verdict late on Monday in the Mediterranean...More
Egyptian authorities executed nine people Monday over the storming of a police station in 2013 in which 13 policemen were killed, a security source said. The executions took place "this morning", the...More
Iran's president said on Wednesday the leak of an audio recording of his top diplomat was aimed at creating "discord" in the Islamic republic during talks aimed at reviving a nuclear deal. "It was...More
When 3-on-3 basketball makes its debut at the Tokyo Olympics, referee Sarah Gamal will also be making a breakthrough, as an Arab and African woman officiating at the Games. Wearing a black veil...More
Boasting azure waters and white sands, a Turkish lake that NASA thinks hides secrets about Mars threatens to become too popular for its own good. Lake Salda gained international renown when U.S...More
Pakistan recorded more than two hundred COVID-19 deaths in a day for the first time since the start of the pandemic on Tuesday, as the government said it was considering stricter lockdowns. A total...More
Iran's president has ordered a probe into the "conspiracy" of leaked audio in which the foreign minister says the military was too influential in diplomacy, a government spokesman announced Tuesday...More
Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday that Israel is committing the crime of "apartheid" by seeking to maintain Jewish "domination" over Palestinians and its own Arab population, an explosive allegation...More
Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested a prominent Muslim lawmaker and his brother over suspected connections to the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in 2019 that killed 269 people. Rishad Bathiudeen...More
The Turkish army has launched a new ground and air offensive against outlawed Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, officials and local media reported on Saturday. Turkish media said commando forces...More
U.S. President Joe Biden's declaration that massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide is "simply outrageous" and Turkey will respond over coming months, Turkey's presidential...More
A Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee outside Paris watched jihadist propaganda videos just before the attack, France's anti-terror prosecutor said Sunday, adding that a fifth person...More
The death toll from a massive fire at a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to at least 82 on Sunday as anxious families searched for missing relatives and the government suspended key...More
Israeli police on Sunday allowed Palestinians to gather in a flashpoint plaza outside Jerusalem's walled Old City, in a move apparently aimed at easing tensions after days of clashes. The staired...More
Turkey on Saturday accused the United States of trying to rewrite history, resoundingly rejecting U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to formally recognise the Armenian genocide. From the streets of...More
The U.S. and Britain rushed ventilators and vaccine materials to India on Monday as the country battles a catastrophic, record-breaking coronavirus wave that has overwhelmed hospitals and set...More
Precious relics of Afghanistan's ancient past are returning home as the nation confronts deepening uncertainty about its future. A collection of 33 artefacts seized from a New York-based art dealer...More
An Algerian court on Thursday convicted a high-profile university professor specialising in Islam of offending the Muslim religion, and sentenced him to three years in prison. Said Djabelkhir was not...More
Hours after Israeli soldiers shot and killed Osama Mansour at a temporary checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, the military announced that it had thwarted a car-ramming attack – but the facts didn't...More
Pakistan's parliament will resume debating the fate of the French ambassador on Friday after the government appeared, for now, to put a lid on bloody anti- France protests that rocked the country for...More
A Syrian surface-to-air missile exploded in southern Israel on Thursday, the Israeli military said, in an incident that triggered warning sirens in an area near the secretive Dimona nuclear reactor...More
India recorded the world’s highest daily tally of 314,835 coronavirus infections on Thursday as a second wave of the pandemic raised new fears about the ability of crumbling health services to cope...More
The latest Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday no longer includes Germany among the leading nations. Of the 180 countries assessed, Germany came 13th, down two...More
The Myanmar military junta's crackdown on anti-coup protesters has displaced close to a quarter of a million people, a United Nations rights envoy said on Wednesday. The military has stepped up its...More
Peering through binoculars, a Yemeni commander scans a forbidding desert moonscape for lurking Houthi rebels, who are ramping up a bloody offensive to seize the strategic oil-rich region of Marib...More
Outside the Minneapolis court house, a crowd had gathered to hear a verdict that many feared could plunge the nation into a new spasm of protest and unrest. When a man with a bullhorn relayed the...More
Turkey remains opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood being declared "terrorists" by Egypt , despite a recent push to repair strained ties, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday, adding Ankara...More
Pakistani journalist Absar Alam, famous for his blunt criticism of the country's powerful military, has been shot and wounded, triggering calls for investigations and condemnation. A gunmen shot the...More
As Sushil Kumar Srivastava's breathlessness worsened, his family bundled the 70-year-old into a car and drove him to a hospital in the capital of India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, where he tested...More
A Washington-backed Afghan peace conference in Turkey has been postponed due to the Taliban’s non-participation, three sources told journalists on Tuesday. The meeting was scheduled for April 24 to...More
It was messy and hectic in Aisha al-Abed's kitchen, as the first day of Ramadan often is. Food had to be on the table at precisely 7:07 p.m. when the sun sets and the daylong fast ends. What is...More
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is suing prison officials for denying him access to the Muslim holy book, the Koran, in his penal colony outside Moscow. Navalny, who is serving a two-and-a-half...More
To master the art of Koran recitation, 21-year-old Hassan Ali Kasi had to follow a strict regime of yoga, hours of rehearsing vocal scales – and a total ban on biryani. His dedication is paying off,...More
A Turkish court released journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan last Wednesday after more than four years in prison on charges of involvement in a failed 2016 coup attempt that he had always denied. The...More
Israel rescinded the mandatory wearing of face masks outdoors and fully re-opened schools on Sunday in the latest return to relative normality, boosted by a mass-vaccination campaign against the...More
A train accident north of Cairo on Sunday left 11 people dead and 98 others injured, Egypt's health ministry said, in the latest rail calamity to hit the North African country. The ministry, in an...More
Eleven Pakistani police officers seized by supporters of a radical Islamist group as part of their campaign to get the French ambassador expelled have been released, officials said Monday. The...More
Every spring, roses bloom in the western Saudi city of Taif, turning pockets of the kingdom's vast desert landscape a vivid and fragrant pink. In April, they are harvested for the essential oil used...More
Iran and global powers resumed talks on Thursday to rescue the 2015 nuclear deal in an effort potentially complicated by Tehran’s decision to ramp up uranium enrichment and what it called Israeli...More
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Kabul on Thursday to show support for the Afghan government and civil society a day after President Joe Biden said he was pulling...More
The Israeli military said early on Friday it had carried out airstrikes on military targets in the Gaza Strip after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave hit southern Israel. Fighter jets and...More
Fronted by a 20-year-old in pigtails, the dancing flash mob swings into action, campaigning to save a threatened wildlife reserv e – part of a growing, youth-led environmental movement rattling...More
Four people were killed and 20 wounded in a car bomb attack on Thursday in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraqi police and medical workers said. The car was parked at a busy second-hand...More
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday briefed his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Hanif Atmar on NATO discussions in which the allies agreed to withdraw their forces from Afghanistan by...More
Ramadan, the Islamic holy month marked by fasting, has come to an end. Now Muslims are celebrating Eid al-Fitr despite the pandemic and violent conflicts. Here's a look at how some people are marking the festival. By Uta Steinwehr
