Indonesian Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the suspected mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, walked free from prison on Friday after serving 10 years for setting up a...More
Mali 's government on Thursday broke its silence in a controversy over a deadly attack in the centre of the country, supporting France 's assertion that its warplanes struck jihadists, while...More
Pakistan 's counter-terrorism police and the country's intelligence agency raided hideouts of an outlawed Shia militant group in the eastern Punjab province and arrested seven suspects who allegedly...More
An arrest warrant was issued on Thursday for outgoing President Donald Trump in connection with the killing of an Iranian general and a powerful Iraqi militia leader last year , Iraq 's judiciary...More
Indonesia 's highest Muslim clerical council aims to issue a ruling on whether a COVID-19 vaccine is halal, or permissible under Islam, before the country is due to start a mass inoculation programme...More
Sudan on Wednesday quietly signed on to the Abraham Accords, US -brokered agreements which have ushered in public rapprochements between Israel and several Arab states. While Sudan and Israel...More
Nearly 100 Rohingya smuggled from Myanmar 's conflict-scarred Rakhine state were arrested in a raid in Yangon, police announced on Thursday, with authorities saying they had been headed to Malaysia...More
Tunisia 's tourism revenue plunged by 65% in 2020 compared with 2019, to around $746 million, official figures showed on Thursday, as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic dealt a severe blow to the...More
Air travel was partially suspended, roads were blocked and a city was shut in Pakistan on Thursday as Shia Muslims continued protests against the killing of 11 coalminers by Islamic State (IS)...More
The UN mission in Libya has welcomed a second exchange of prisoners between the country's rival administrations and called for faster progress on other parts of an October truce . The formerly...More
Germany 's Foreign Ministry has called on Bosnia to take clear steps to improve the situation of migrants in the country. Officials also addressed the issue during a visit to Bosnia, where Bosnian...More
The United States on Tuesday blacklisted a Chinese company that makes elements for steel production, 12 Iranian steel and metals makers and three foreign-based sales agents of an Iranian metals and...More
Move over, Siegfried. Ahmet is on the way. A journalists' group gave the name Ahmet to a low pressure system bringing frigid temperatures, dark clouds and snow to Germany on Tuesday in an effort to...More
Members of the Shia Hazara minority in Pakistan who have blockaded a highway in Quetta with the bodies of slain coal miners said on Tuesday that they will not withdraw until Prime Minister Imran Khan...More
Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Israel to provide coronavirus vaccine doses to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza , saying the Jewish state was obligated to do so under...More
Pakistan 's Supreme Court ordered authorities on Tuesday to rebuild a century-old Hindu temple that was vandalised and set on fire by a mob last week , drawing condemnation from the government and...More
Three Algerian activists awaiting trial in prison were rushed to hospital on Tuesday, ten days after they began a hunger strike protesting their detention, the CNLD prisoners' rights group has said...More
Gulf Arab leaders signed a declaration on Tuesday to ease a rift with Qatar , following Saudi Arabia 's decision to end a 3 1/2-year embargo of the tiny energy-rich country that deeply divided...More
Afghan government negotiators returned to Doha on Tuesday for a second round of talks with the Taliban after Kabul accused the insurgents of stalling the negotiations as Washington draws down its...More
Iran said on Tuesday that it had stepped up its uranium enrichment at a time of heightened tensions with the United States and after it seized a South Korean tanker in strategic Gulf waters. Tehran...More
(Corrects to say ban is imposed only on state-run Islamic schools, not all Islamic schools) An Indian state ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's Hindu nationalist party on Wednesday (30 December...More
Tunisia , the current president of the UN Security Council, called on Monday for a resolution sending international monitors to support Libya's brittle ceasefire to be adopted as soon as possible. "...More
Al-Qaida 's branch in North Africa has claimed responsibility for killing two French soldiers who died when their armoured vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in eastern Mali , Site...More
A supporter of Algeria 's Hirak protest movement was sentenced to three years in jail on Monday for satirical social media posts mocking the government and religion, sparking condemnation from rights...More
Lebanon will begin a 25-day nationwide lockdown on Thursday to battle a surge in coronavirus infections during the holiday season that has challenged the country's already battered health care sector...More
Egyptian rapper and actor Mohamed Ramadan, blocked from work after the publication in November of photos of him posing with Israeli celebrities, is back on the job, he said on Monday. The actor...More
A radical Indonesian cleric linked to the deadly Bali bombings will be released from prison this week, authorities said on Monday, after an earlier bid to free him early was axed following a public...More
One hundred people were killed on Saturday in attacks on two villages in western Niger , Prime Minister Brigi Rafini said following one of the deadliest days in recent memory for a country ravaged by...More
Gunmen opened fire on a group of minority Shia Hazara coal miners after abducting them, killing 11 in south-western Balochistan province early on Sunday, a Pakistani official said. The Islamic State...More
Thousands of Iraqi mourners chanted "revenge" and "no to America " on Sunday, one year after a US drone strike killed Iran's revered commander Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mahdi al-...More
The German government in 2020 approved arms exports worth more than a billion euros to countries involved in the conflicts in Yemen and Libya . For Egypt alone, exports of weapons and military...More
Egypt , Ethiopia and Sudan resumed their years-long negotiations on Sunday over the controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile , officials said. The resumption came six weeks after...More
An Indian state ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's Hindu nationalist party on Wednesday passed a law abolishing all Islamic schools, saying they provided sub-standard education. Opposition...More
The United Nations -African Union mission in Darfur is set to end 13 years of peacekeeping in the vast Sudanese region on Thursday, even as recent violent clashes leave residents fearful of new...More
The death toll in an explosion that hit a main airport in Yemen 's southern city of Aden has climbed to 25, a Yemeni government official said on Thursday. Some 110 others were injured in Wednesday's...More
The Italian government has described as "unacceptable" a decision by Egypt's public prosecutor to clear five police officers over the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni . The decision announced...More
The Israel Air Force said on Thursday it attacked around 50 targets in Syria over the course of 2020. Israel rarely admits to strikes in Syria, most of which are targeted against Shia groups and...More
Tunisian President Kais Saied will launch in the coming weeks a national dialogue that will include political parties and youth from all regions "to correct the revolution that has deviated from its...More
Pakistani police arrested 24 people in overnight raids after a Hindu temple was set on fire and demolished by a mob led by supporters of a radical Islamist party, officials said on Thursday...More
The US State Department has approved the potential sale of 3,000 precision guided munitions to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a deal valued at up to $290 million, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The...More
Over 100 retired senior civil servants and diplomats urged the Hindu nationalist leader of Uttar Pradesh state to repeal a new law criminalising forced religious conversion of brides , warning in an...More
US President Donald Trump 's pardons of four Blackwater contractors convicted of killing civilians in a 2007 Baghdad massacre is a violation of US obligations under international law, UN experts said...More
Indonesia has banned the controversial and politically influential hard-line group the Islamic Defender's Front, the chief security minister announced on Wednesday. Minister Mahfud MD said the group...More
A Saudi court on Monday sentenced prominent women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to nearly six years in prison, her family said, after her conviction in a trial that has drawn international...More
Three French soldiers deployed to Mali to combat Islamist terrorism were killed when their armoured vehicle hit an improvised bomb, the Elysee Palace said in a statement late on Monday. They had been...More
North Macedonian police on Monday arrested eight people suspected of links with the Islamic State terrorist group , the Interior Ministry in Skopje said. The eight were arrested in Skopje and...More
Moroccan officials are in Israel laying the groundwork for the opening of a liaison office in the Jewish state, a source familiar with the topic said on Monday. The Moroccan "technical" team landed...More
Attacks by gunmen suspected to be from Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadist rebels have killed at least 10 people in Borno state in northern Nigeria , according to local residents. The attackers hit four...More
Russia said late on Sunday that it had sent more military police to an area in northern Syria where fighters backed by Turkey have clashed with Kurdish forces near a strategic highway patrolled by...More
Bangladesh on Monday started moving a second group of Rohingya refugees to a controversial flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal despite opposition from rights activists. More than 1,600 of the...More
The leader of Lebanon 's Hezbollah said on Sunday that his group now has twice as many precision-guided missiles as it had a year ago, saying Israel's efforts to prevent it from acquiring them have...More
Turkey 's parliament on Sunday approved a law that would increase government monitoring of civil society groups, which rights groups have warned would violate the freedom of association. Newly...More
"Temple of Refuge" illustrates Iraqi-Kurdish migrant Sartep Namiq's journey to Berlin. It was commissioned with the help of a unique organisation. By Stefan Dege
