People who were at vocational training centres in China's far west Xinjiang have all ''graduated" and are living happy lives, an official said on Monday. But Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim...More
The remaining signatories to the faltering 2015 Iran nuclear deal will meet in Vienna on Friday with the survival of the landmark agreement at stake after Tehran vowed to continue to breach the deal'...More
India's largest Muslim political groups are divided over how to respond to a Supreme Court ruling that favours Hindus' right to a disputed site 27 years after Hindu nationalist mobs tore down a 16th...More
In a wood-panelled hall of the ornate Peace Palace at The Hague, lawyers pressing a case against Myanmar for alleged genocide against its Muslim Rohingya minority will next week ask judges to order...More
Crowds backing a paramilitary force close to Iran streamed into the Iraqi capital's main protest camp on Thursday, rattling anti-government demonstrators who have denounced Tehran's role in their...More
In the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, without a cinema for 30 years, a few hundred people walk the red carpet to a rare film screening – held on the street. The opening of the Red Carpet Human Rights...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened an eco-friendly mosque on Thursday in the eastern English city of Cambridge. Erdogan spoke against rising Islamophobia at the inauguration of the...More
Any voluntary return of refugees to northern Syria should be overseen by the United Nations, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday after a meeting with the leaders of Turkey, Britain and...More
Motorised rickshaws known as tuk-tuks have ruled the streets of Cairo's slums for the past two decades, squeezing through dusty alleys, dodging trash bins and fruit stands, blaring rhythmic electro-...More
Iraq is "at a crossroads" and leaders must seize the opportunity to build a "sovereign, stable, inclusive and prosperous" country, the United Nations envoy for Iraq said on Tuesday. Briefing the UN...More
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani called on Wednesday for the release of any unarmed and innocent people who were detained during protests against gasoline price hikes, after two weeks of violent...More
Lebanon's caretaker foreign minister, Gebran Bassil, signalled on Tuesday that progress had been made in talks on forming a new government that must pull the country out of its worst economic crisis...More
Chants demanding complete regime change have echoed across Iraq for weeks, but what first brought demonstrators onto the street was the profound poverty of one of the world's most oil-rich countries...More
Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China . The list, obtained by journalists, was compiled by Pakistani...More
Malaysian officials on Monday slammed a tattoo exhibition held in the country as "porn" unsuitable for a Muslim-majority country, after images of half-naked men and women went viral. The "Tattoo...More
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation on Tuesday that would apply sanctions against senior Chinese officials, triggering a furious response from Beijing . The...More
Iraq's parliament on Sunday formally accepted the prime minister's resignation, but the path to replacing Adil Abdul-Mahdi was clouded with legal questions that one lawmaker described as a "black...More
Israel's defence minister announced plans to build a new Jewish-only settlement in the heart of a flashpoint West Bank city on Sunday, weeks after the United States said it no longer considered such...More
Iran warned on Sunday it may "seriously reconsider" its commitments to the UN atomic watchdog if European parties to a nuclear deal trigger a dispute mechanism that could lead to sanctions. The 2015...More
Usman Khan was convicted on terrorism charges, but let out of prison early. He attended a "Learning Together'' conference for ex-offenders and used the event to launch a bloody attack, stabbing two...More
Ousted president Omar al-Bashir's party on Friday condemned Sudan's new "illegal government" for ordering its closure and the dismantling of his regime that ruled the country for 30 years. Sudan's...More
Iraq's parliament voted on Sunday to accept the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi after weeks of violent anti-government protests that have rocked the country. Abdul Mahdi's decision to...More
Several hundred mostly women protesters rallied in the Tunisian capital on Saturday against violence targeting women, urging authorities to act to ensure their rights. Demonstrators marched through...More
A pair of Egyptian journalists and a lawyer are facing charges of joining a "terrorist group", their lawyer confirmed on Thursday, after they were detained amid a string of similar arrests. Security...More
A bid by Russia to block funding for a new team that will identify culprits behind toxic attacks in Syria failed on Thursday with member states at the global chemical watchdog overwhelmingly...More
Weeks into a protest movement partly driven by a collapsing economy, Lebanese interior architect Laeticia Nicolas was called in by her boss and told she was fired. "There had been fewer and fewer...More
Algerians are due to elect a new president next month, but a huge protest movement bitterly rejects the vote, fearing it will cement in power politicians close to the disgraced old guard. Candidates...More
A Moroccan court on Monday sentenced rapper Mohamed Mounir, known as Gnawi, to one year in jail for insulting police on social media, in what Amnesty condemned as "a disgraceful verdict". A defence...More
Qatar's foreign minister has made an unannounced visit to Riyadh, two sources told journalists, amid signs that a 2-1/2-year rift among U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states could soon subside. Sheikh...More
China on Thursday defended its security crackdown in Xinjiang after French and German leaders condemned its mass detention of religious minorities in the region. The French foreign ministry on...More
Iraqi security forces shot dead at least 45 protesters on Thursday after demonstrators stormed and torched an Iranian consulate overnight, in what could mark a turning point in the uprising against...More
France plans to use legal tools to crack down on the spread of Islamism and sectarianism, often in the country's poorer urban areas, a senior official has said. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner...More
The United States said on Tuesday that it had received nearly 20,000 messages from Iran about the protests, including photos and videos after appealing to demonstrators to defy restrictions on the...More
United Nations investigators have so far identified 160 Islamic State militants accused of massacres of Yazidis in northern Iraq in 2014 and are building legal cases against them, the head of the...More
Approximately 731 banks and 140 government sites were torched in recent unrest in Iran, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said in remarks published by the official IRNA news agency on...More
Lebanon's outgoing prime minister said on Tuesday he will not head the next government, in a move intended to speed up the formation of a new cabinet in the protest-swept country. Demonstrations...More
When discontented Iraqis sought independence from British occupation in 1920, Baghdad's most prestigious new boulevard, Rasheed Street, was the theatre of their revolt. Nearly 100 years later, the...More
Egypt's government is using a secretive security agency designed to fight terrorism to detain peaceful protesters, journalists and critics on trumped-up charges without trial, Amnesty International...More
In this mountain city that was for centuries home to Sri Lanka's kings and in recent years has been riven by religious violence, Buddhist nationalists are rejoicing the election of the country's...More
A TikTok post by a young woman, pretending to give eyelash curling advice while actually condemning China's crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang, has gone viral on the Chinese-owned app that has been...More
Iranian security forces have arrested 180 suspected protest leaders following days of demonstrations over higher fuel prices, the Supreme National Security Council said in a statement on Sunday...More
A Jewish family riding on the London Underground was accosted by a man yelling anti-Semitic language - but was defended by a Muslim woman also riding on the train, a video posted to social media on...More
Thirteen anti-government protesters were killed Sunday by Iraqi security forces in one of the "worst'' days of clashes in the country's south, as protests swept through the oil-rich area, officials...More
Security forces fired tear gas amid confrontations in central Beirut that went into Monday morning between Hezbollah supporters and demonstrators protesting against Lebanon's political elite. The...More
The watch towers, double-locked doors and video surveillance in the Chinese camps are there "to prevent escapes'.' Uighurs and other minorities held inside are scored on how well they speak the...More
Syed Mohamad was celebrating a key date in the Muslim Shia calendar in secret when officials burst in and detained him, one of several raids in Malaysia that have set the long-persecuted community on...More
Police in Egypt have released three news editors detained on Sunday in a swoop on local news outlet Mada Masr, the independent organisation said on its website. The publication posted on social media...More
Egyptian security forces raided the office of independent news website Mada Masr on Sunday and briefly detained three of its staff including its top editor, a day after another journalist was...More
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday that the United Kingdom had "facilitated" the return of British orphans whose parents had died in Syria "because it was the right thing to do". "These...More
The images are both haunting and inspiring, transforming a once dreary, grim underpass into a vivid, colourful wall of art. "We want a nation, not a prison,'' says one painting that depicts a man...More
Lebanon was marking 76 years of self-rule on Friday, but protesters say that only this year are its people experiencing "real independence". An unprecedented protest movement has gripped the small...More
A Turkish court on Thursday upheld its conviction of 12 former employees of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper despite a higher court ruling, a lawyer for the newspaper said. The court acquitted a...More
Behind a suffocating political system and inquisitive cliches, Iranian youth dream of a break with the system while proudly defending their culture. By Gwenvaël Engel
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
Turning away from Shia in Iran
''A Tsunami of Atheism''