Spain must make sure that would-be refugees arriving in two Spanish enclaves in north Africa are allowed to seek asylum, the Council of Europe said on Thursday. Even those "jumping the border fences...More
A black woman who presents the weather forecast on a Belgium public broadcaster posted an emotional video on Thursday which quickly went viral calling out the torrent of racist abuse she has received...More
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has jurisdiction to investigate the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh last year, the court announced on Thursday...More
In north-western Syria, 68-year-old Abu Khaled was among dozens to have set up camp in a field, hoping that Turkish soldiers nearby would shield him from bombardment by Bashar al-Assad's regime. In...More
Seventy-six Myanmar civil society groups called on Tuesday for the release of two jailed Reuters reporters, denouncing their conviction as unfair and an assault on the right to freedom of information...More
The presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey meet Friday in Tehran for a summit expected to shape the future of Idlib province, home to Syria's last major rebel bastion. The summit comes as Syrian...More
The United Nations on Tuesday said rival Libyan militias in the capital Tripoli had agreed to a ceasefire after a week of fighting in which at least 50 people were killed. "The agreement .....More
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday said he was hoping to "reset the relationship" with Pakistan ahead of a trip to Islamabad to meet with new Prime Minister Imran Khan. Speaking on a...More
Five protesters were killed and 16 more were injured during a second day of clashes with security forces in Iraq's main southern city Basra, local health and security sources said. Twenty-two members...More
More than 200,000 people have been displaced in Afghanistan since the beginning of the year due to conflict, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has said...More
Two German states said on Monday they have begun surveillance of youth wings of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as calls grew for a broader monitoring of the biggest opposition party and...More
Egypt's presidency has ratified controversial legislation imposing regulations on social media that is says aims to crack down on fake news. The law, published in the country's official gazette on...More
Iran's Foreign Minister met his Syrian counterpart in Damascus on Monday in a surprise visit ahead of a looming offensive against the country's last rebel stronghold. Mohammad Javad Zarif's trip to...More
The United States accuses Pakistan of playing a dangerous double game, taking billions in U.S. aid since 2002 while supporting the Taliban and other militants who attack American forces in...More
Yemen's embattled government has agreed to raise the salaries of thousands of public-sector employees, including pensioners, after hundreds of people protested in Aden against the rising cost of...More
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Kyrgyzstan on Saturday to crack down on groups linked to the Fethullah Gulen movement which Ankara blames for a failed 2016 coup, something Bishkek has so far...More
Washington's decision to end funding for the United Nation's aid agency for Palestinian refugees was politically motivated, the agency's chief said, rejecting U.S. explanations that it was linked...More
The jailed leader of a Moroccan protest movement began a hunger strike on Thursday to protest against prison conditions, weeks after he was sentenced to 20 years behind bars, his father said. Nasser...More
Shaped like a peanut and smaller than some big-city airports, this tropical Pacific island has an unusual history. Thanks to rich deposits of a fertiliser ingredient, Nauru's 11,000 citizens were...More
Rival Iraqi political factions said on Sunday they had each formed alliances capable of forming a government in the new parliament after months of political uncertainty following a May election...More
A court in South Africa ordered the government on Friday to change the law to formally recognise Muslim marriage for the first time to avoid being in breach of the constitution. Under the country's...More
German politician Thilo Sarrazin has returned to the anti-Islam theme he took up eight years ago in a bestselling book, provoking controversy once again with a new title published on Thursday. "...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to speak before members of the Turkish-German community in Cologne or Berlin during his upcoming visit to Germany, a source familiar with the visit told...More
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has sworn in several new provincial governors, including the first-ever Coptic Christian woman to hold the position. Manal Awad Mikhail was appointed governor...More
The UN special envoy to Syria warned on Thursday that the presence of 10,000 al-Qaida-linked fighters in the country's rebel stronghold of Idlib did not justify an attack that could endanger the...More
Controversial anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders late Thursday said he was cancelling plans to stage a Prophet Muhammad cartoon competition , a scheme that had angered many Muslims particularly in...More
German far-right demonstrators gathered in the eastern city of Chemnitz for renewed protests against Chancellor Angela Merkel's immigration policy on Thursday, while local judicial authorities...More
An apparent Iranian influence operation targeting Internet users worldwide is significantly bigger than previously identified, Reuters has found, encompassing a sprawling network of anonymous...More
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday condemned violent far-right protests that degenerated into attacks against foreign-looking people, saying "hate in the streets" has no place in Germany. After the...More
A Nigerian Christian schoolgirl abducted by Boko Haram jihadists has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to secure her release, local media said on Tuesday, citing a purported audio recording of the...More
Egypt's highest Sunni Muslim authority has said there can be no justification for sexual harassment, in a country where many people often blame women themselves for the widespread problems they face...More
Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Malaysia to quash the caning sentence handed to a Muslim lesbian couple for trying to have sex. The unidentified women, aged 22 and 23, pleaded guilty in a...More
United Nations investigators on Monday called for an international probe and prosecution of Myanmar's army chief and five other top military commanders for genocide against the country's Rohingya...More
Journalist Mesale Tolu, released from Turkish prison in December but banned from leaving the country until this week, returned to Germany on Sunday vowing to continue fighting for colleagues...More
It might have been another #MeToo moment: An Egyptian woman says a man stalked her at a bus stop, made inappropriate advances and only backed off when she began filming him with her cell phone. But...More
Riot police detained more than 20 people and used tear gas to disperse dozens of others who defied a ban on a planned sit-in in Istanbul on Saturday, Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet reported. The...More
The Dutch prime minister has distanced his government from a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest being organised later this year by anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on...More
Refugee children languishing in Australian-run immigration detention camps on Nauru are deliberately harming themselves and googling how to kill themselves, former healthcare workers-turned...More
Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees staged angry protests for "justice" on Saturday on the first anniversary of a Myanmar military crackdown that sparked a mass exodus to camps in Bangladesh. Many...More
Civilians were killed in western Yemen on Thursday in a missile strike for which the Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led coalition fighting them traded blame. The rebel-run Saba news agency said women and...More
Indonesia's largest Muslim organisation has criticised the blasphemy conviction and imprisonment of a Buddhist woman who complained that the call to prayer from her neighbourhood mosque was too loud...More
France dismissed on Thursday any suggestion that millions of Syrian refugees could start returning home, as urged by Russia, which backs President Bashar al-Assad. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnes...More
Egyptian police arrested a prominent opposition activist on Thursday because he wants a referendum on whether President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi should stay in power . Masoum Marzouk, a former diplomat,...More
The United Nations has run out of funding to pay for fuel needed for hospitals, water plants and other critical facilities in the Gaza Strip, the UN political chief said on Wednesday. Rosemary Di...More
With a repatriation plan in tatters and funding evaporating for a million refugees with ever-growing needs, Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh face a grim future one year after the...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday stressed the importance of media freedom amid a widening scandal over police who obstructed a TV crew at a far-right rally against her. The incident in...More
Israel's military said on Tuesday it would launch a criminal investigation into two incidents in which its troops shot and killed Palestinian teenagers taking part in protests along the Gaza border...More
It's dubbed the "pilgrimage of the poor" – every summer, tens of thousands of people flood this small central Moroccan town to honour a Sufi saint buried here 12 centuries ago. Moulay Driss Zerhoun,...More
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said on Tuesday that an end to Israel's more than decade-long blockade of Gaza was "around the corner", as talk of a possible truce deal intensifies. Indirect negotiations...More
Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty against five human rights activists from the kingdom's Eastern Province currently on trial in a secretive terrorism court, groups...More
The lira weakened against the dollar on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would give Turkey no concessions in return for the release of a detained American pastor, the latest salvo in...More
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday defended her government's actions in Rakhine state, where about 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled from a brutal counterinsurgency campaign to neighbouring...More
A trip to the indigenous Mayan heartland of Mexico shows how vital the Muslim community is in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. The southern state of Chiapas is home to hundreds of predominantly indigenous Tzotzil men and women, many of whom have converted to Islam from Catholic or other Christian denominations. By Edgard Garrido
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"