A journalist arrested last week as he covered Algeria's weekly anti-regime demonstration said on Monday that he was beaten, insulted and humiliated for eight hours. Mustapha Bendjama, editor-in-chief...More
Ethiopia's mediator in the Sudan crisis urged the military rulers and the opposition coalition to hold direct talks on Wednesday to strike a deal on handing over power to civilians. The Transitional...More
After getting kicked off the national squad, Egyptian footballer Amr Warda, accused of rampant sexual harassment, has been reinstated for the African Cup of Nations amid a heated debate about women's...More
Iran has breached a cap on its enriched uranium stockpile set in a 2015 deal with major powers and said it plans to further flout the nuclear agreement, moves which ultimately could lead to the...More
Carola Rackete, the German captain of charity rescue ship Sea Watch 3, has been released from house arrest after a pre-trial hearing in Italy, according to the Ansa news agency. A pre-trial judge in...More
The diplomatic chiefs of the EU, France, Germany and Britain said Tuesday they were "extremely concerned" and urged Iran to reverse its decision to breach a limit on enriched uranium reserves under a...More
When travellers shop at dozens of duty free stores at airports worldwide, they may be paying for more than a bottle of vodka or a box of chocolates. The Falic family of Florida, owners of the...More
Iran will soon exceed an enriched uranium limit under its nuclear deal, after remaining signatories to the pact fell short of Tehran's demands to be shielded from U.S. sanctions, the semi-official...More
Tunisian authorities said on Friday that President Beji Caid Essebsi's condition was improving and insisted there was no power vacuum in the North African country, shaken by the 92-year-old leader's...More
Seven people were killed Sunday as tens of thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets to demand civilian rule in the first mass rally since a bloody crackdown on demonstrators – a show of...More
The Syrian government is co-opting humanitarian aid and reconstruction assistance, Human Rights Watch said last Friday, urging donors and investors to ensure that funding is going to the right place...More
Away from the frontlines, volunteers are helping in the war against President Bashar al-Assad by cooking, filling sandbags, collecting old tyres and digging trenches, aiming to help ward off his...More
A British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran has ended a hunger strike after 15 days, according to her husband. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was put under serious pressure by authorities in the prison to end...More
High-level support and almost three-quarters of a million dollars in donations poured in on Sunday for the German captain of a migrant rescue ship who was arrested after she defied repeated orders to...More
Iran will never succumb to U.S. pressure and if Washington wants talks with Tehran it should show respect, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday. Tension between Tehran and Washington...More
A U.S. detergent advert that encourages women to pursue careers has sparked a debate over women's rights in conservative Pakistan, with critics urging people to #BoycottAriel. The ad shows a female...More
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday urged Pakistan to use its influence to secure direct talks between his administration and Taliban insurgents as global efforts to seek a political settlement...More
Iran said Friday's meeting in Vienna between the remaining signatories of the nuclear deal was the "last chance" to save the accord after the U.S. withdrawal last year and warned Tehran would not...More
More than 200 demonstrators broke into the courtyard of Bahrain's Embassy in Baghdad and took down the country's flag on Thursday night, to protest a U.S.-led meeting in Bahrain on Israeli-...More
The children of high-profile Egyptian Islamists detained in the same prison as former President Mohammed Morsi before his sudden death last week say they fear for their parents' health. Morsi, 67,...More
The two municipal swimming pools in the southeast French city of Grenoble have been shut down, despite the current heatwave, after a row over the use of full-body Islamic burkini swimsuit, the local...More
During the day, Gadoora checks his patients at a clinic near Khartoum, but at night he locks himself in his room rapping songs which echo the sentiments of Sudan's "revolution". "The revolution broke...More
Former NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen defended the international agreement aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions although it was "not perfect." "I think the alternative is worse...More
Political unease over the White House's tough talk against Iran is reviving questions about President Donald Trump's ability to order military strikes without approval from Congress. The Senate is...More
Iran's president on Tuesday blamed Washington for a steadily escalating row with the United States and said the situation will not be resolved unless U.S. sanctions on the country are lifted. Rouhani...More
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has defended the continued detention of a blogger who has served jail time for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Cheikh Ould Mohamed Ould...More
Eight people have been detained by the Egyptian authorities on accusations of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood and helping to fund a plot to overthrow the state, a judicial source told journalists...More
Sri Lanka's police on Tuesday stepped in to prevent a local council from banning Muslim traders from a weekly fair in another backlash from the devastating Easter attacks blamed on Islamic extremists...More
In Pakistan's picturesque Gilgit-Baltistan district, flanked by soaring mountain ranges and glaciers, plastic shopping bags are now illegal. In late April, the provincial government banned their “use...More
A top U.S. State Department official who deals with Sudan said on Tuesday that Washington was considering all options, including possible sanctions, if there was more violence after a deadly assault...More
Climate change is threatening the success of peacekeeping missions, according to a policy briefing by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Due to the compound nature of...More
President Hassan Rouhani said Iran "never seeks war" with the U.S., state media reported on Wednesday amid a spike in tensions between the two countries. "Iran has no interest to increase tension in...More
The death of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi warrants further UN investigations, his fiancee Hatice Cengiz said on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. At the...More
Softly-spoken football fan Ekrem Imamoglu has emerged from relative obscurity to win Turkey's biggest city – twice – as the new figurehead of the country's long-suffering opposition. It has been a...More
Sudan's protest movement accepted an Ethiopian roadmap for a civilian-led transitional government, a spokesman said on Sunday, after a months-long standoff with the country's military rulers - who...More
Last Friday Pope Francis called for a reform of the way theology is taught in Catholic schools, saying students must learn about dialogue with Judaism and Islam and that overall there must be greater...More
The United States on Monday was due to tighten sanctions on Iran as the two countries traded barbs in a tense standoff sparked by Washington's withdrawal from a nuclear deal. Both nations say they...More
Jordan and Egypt said on Saturday that they will send officials from their finance ministries to take part in an economic conference in Bahrain on a U.S.-led Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. Egypt's...More
Tunisia's parliament has passed an amendment to its electoral law that would bar businessman Nabil Karoui, owner of a private TV station critical of the government, from running for president in a...More
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday the U.S. Middle East peace plan that is set to be presented at an international conference in Bahrain this week is "shameful" and "doomed to failure...More
Turkey's opposition has dealt President Tayyip Erdogan a stinging blow by winning control of Istanbul in a re-run mayoral election, breaking his aura of invincibility and delivering a message from...More
The Turkish lira strengthened overnight after the opposition dealt a stinging blow to President Tayyip Erdogan by winning control of Istanbul in a re-run mayoral election on Sunday. Assets have...More
Algerian authorities on Sunday arrested 18 people who had brandished the Berber minority flag during an anti-government protest in Algiers despite a ban imposed by the military, their lawyers said...More
Voters in Istanbul will take part in a re-run of the mayoral election on Sunday after a vote in March was annulled over alleged irregularities. Local elections around Turkey on 31 March showed the...More
Hundreds of Sudanese demonstrated in state capitals on Thursday, seeking to revive a push for civilian rule in ongoing tumult since the overthrow of former President Omar al-Bashir more than two...More
Military chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah said on Tuesday that those who oppose the army were "enemies of Algeria", as the country's protest movement demands an overhaul of the entire regime. Those...More
The United States Senate passed resolutions on Thursday to block arm sales to Saudi Arabia, with the bills now set to move to the House of Representatives where they are also expected to get approved...More
The U.S. State Department on Thursday added Saudi Arabia and Cuba to its 2019 list of the world's worst countries for human trafficking. Saudi Arabia and Cuba may be "subject to certain restrictions...More
Iran said Friday it had "indisputable" evidence a U.S. drone it downed had violated its airspace, as reports emerged in the U.S. that President Donald Trump had approved then scrapped retaliatory...More
The UN Secretary General cannot set up an investigation into the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, his spokesman insisted, after a UN special rapporteur looking into the Saudi journalist's death called for...More
A court on Thursday declared Britain's licensing of arms sales to Saudi Arabia unlawful, handing a victory to campaigners who argued that the government failed to make a proper assessment of...More
Two-year-old Farid should have been vaccinated against polio, but his family – like many in rural Afghanistan – believed the conspiracy theories and refused to have him inoculated. He contracted the...More
Antoin Sevruguin, the father of Iranian society photography, captured portraits of Iranian women in the early 20th century, from well-known ladies at the court to women from various tribes around the country.
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
Junaid Jamshed
"I Was a Sinner for Years"