With their control of Mosul slipping away, Islamic State militants decided to send a message of defiance: They blew up the 12th century al...More
The scene in Syria's besieged rebel-held town of Douma is almost surreal – tables laden with food to break the Ramadan fast are surrounded...More
Four Arab states boycotting Qatar over alleged support for terrorism have sent Doha a list of 13 demands including closing Al Jazeera...More
Some members of Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany party were in hot water on Wednesday after instant message transcripts came...More
The United States declared itself "mystified" on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies have failed to justify their embargo on...More
Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Wednesday appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, placing him first-in-line to...More
The cars still zip over London Bridge at their typical fast clip, drawing little obvious attention.
But some pedestrians walking the...More
In squalid camps in Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled violence and persecution in neighbouring Myanmar dream of...More
Chit Tin, a 55-year-old Muslim man has prayed at the same madrassa in eastern Yangon his whole adult life, most of it spent under a junta...More
Dalal Abdel-Qader, a 43-year-old mother from Cairo, is doing something that has for centuries been the exclusive domain of men – being a "...More
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced 31 people to death for murdering the country's former chief prosecutor almost two years ago, state...More
With a mission to spread a liberal form of Islam, a mosque where men and women pray side by side has opened its doors in Berlin, complete...More
The Nicht Mit Uns – or Not With Us – march was planned as opposition to violence in the name of Islam, but some groups claimed it...More
The Muslim community in Warsaw cancelled a public event on Tuesday aimed at countering stereotypes about Islam after receiving threats...More
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday denounced the isolation of Qatar by neighbouring states as a violation of Islamic values and...More
The European Commission launched a legal case on Tuesday against Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic for refusing to take in asylum...More
Rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday dismissed as "absurd" the jailing in Tunisia of people who fail to observe the Ramadan fast...More
Egypt, under fire for muzzling freedom of expression, has blocked access to around 60 news websites and service providers since the end of...More
Qatar on Monday denounced the sanctions imposed against Doha by Saudi Arabia and its allies as "unfair" and "illegal", as Britain...More
Another U.S. appeals court stomped on President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on Monday, saying the administration violated federal...More
Hamas this week marks 10 years since taking power in Gaza with the Palestinian enclave at risk of conflict and facing electricity...More
Many Iraqi Kurds hailed last week's announcement of a September referendum on independence as historic, but major obstacles will remain on...More
Clad in camouflage and armed only with their convictions, the paramilitary wing of Indonesia's biggest Muslim organisation is on a...More
Thousands of Moroccans led by an Islamist movement rallied in the capital Rabat on Sunday in a massive show of support for protests...More
Governments across Southeast Asia had been bracing for the time when Islamic State, on a back foot in Iraq and Syria, would look to...More
Saif al-Islam, the son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been released after more than five years in...More
Muslim student athletes at one U.S. high school no longer have to be slowed down by worries that their headscarves might fall off.
...More
Efforts to resolve a diplomatic dispute pitting Saudi Arabia and its allies against Qatar intensified Thursday, after Washington offered...More
Five of the men who launched an attack in the heart of Iran's capital previously fought for the Islamic State group, the country's...More
Myanmar's censors have barred a documentary on festering religious tensions between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, a...More
Senator Bernie Sanders said on Wednesday that he'll oppose Donald Trump's pick to be deputy White House budget director over a blog post...More
A small community of blind students in Malaysia is attempting to learn the entire Koran, a formidable task that requires them to read each...More
A letter drafted by a senior Islamic State militant and obtained by The Associated Press points to a growing power struggle within the...More
Disowned by her parents after running away from the 55-year-old man they forced her to marry in the northeast Nigerian city of Yola, 13-...More
Dutch prosecutors have rejected an Austrian request to prosecute MP Geert Wilders over alleged inflammatory remarks about Islam during a...More
The head of Amnesty International in Turkey was arrested on Tuesday over suspected links to the movement of cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom...More
Crowds gathered by London's beloved Tower Bridge on Monday – many Muslims among them – to grieve for the victims of the city's second...More
US President Donald Trump urged Gulf unity on Tuesday in remarks released just hours after he appeared to back Saudi Arabia and its...More
With bomb-proof tunnels, anti-tank weapons hidden in mosques, human shields and a "mastery" of the terrain, Islamist militants holed up in...More
Secret dates, dead-drops and "bullet-free" maths lessons: these are just some of the ways residents of the Islamic State group's Syrian...More
No militant group has so far claimed responsibility for Wednesday's powerful blast that ripped through Kabul's diplomatic quarter, killing...More
In the early hours of 5 June 1967, Field Marshal Abd al-Hakim Amir of the Egyptian army boarded a plane destined for the desert of the...More
Dozens of foreign jihadists have fought side-by-side with Islamic State sympathisers against security forces in the southern Philippines...More
With their heads covered with Islamic headscarves, the three members of the Indonesian band VoB ("Voice of Baceprot" or "Noisy Voice") do...More
Authorities in Morocco on Monday arrested the fugitive leader of a protest movement that has shaken the country's northern Rif region for...More
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Tuesday described a newly enforced law regulating the work of non-governmental...More
Bishop Edwin Dela Pena was sipping coffee after dinner in a southern Philippines coastal town last Tuesday when he received a phone call:...More
The United Nations on Tuesday announced the appointment of three international experts to an fact-finding mission that plans to...More
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched a fierce attack against regional rival Saudi Arabia, saying it was being pumped "...More
"I'm Muslim and I trust you. Do you trust me enough for a hug?" asks a blindfolded man, arms out wide, to mourners at the focal point of...More
A video advertisement that depicts a would-be suicide bomber confronted by the faithful has gone viral two days into the Muslim fasting...More
Wearing a red hijab and all-encompassing gown, Sakdiyah Maruf cuts an unusual figure in a dark, smoky Jakarta bar as she reels off taboo-...More
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Muslims in Liberal Democracies
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