Half a million refugee Rohingya children are shut out of local schools in Bangladesh, leaving many in religious madrassas where critics say educational standards are low and students are vulnerable...More
Sudan's military council is urging protest leaders to resume negotiations on the transition of power, but says talks "should not be preconditioned." General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the council,...More
An independent U.N. human rights expert investigating the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Wednesday recommended an investigation into the possible role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed...More
Saudi Arabia has rendered toothless the once-feared religious police amid a liberalisation drive, but a planned "public decency" law is stoking controversy with some fearing a revival of morality...More
The death of Mohammed Morsi, modern Egypt's first democratically elected head of state, while on trial in a Cairo court, has brought an outpouring of condolences around the Middle East and calls for...More
He doesn't like fighting, preaches reconciliation rather than confrontation and campaigns through social media rather than television. That approach has made Ekrem Imamoglu, the opposition candidate...More
Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets of Turkey's capital and Istanbul on Tuesday, mourning former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi and some chanting slogans blaming Cairo...More
Russia on Tuesday called for restraint to avoid escalation in the Middle East after the U.S. said it was deploying additional troops due to heightened tensions with Iran. "We are urging all the sides...More
The Turkish lira weakened on Wednesday after Bloomberg said the United States is considering sanctions that could target Turkish defence companies, cutting them off from the U.S. financial system...More
Unpopular in power and deposed after huge protests, Egypt's ex-president Mohammed Morsi could be humanised in the eyes of many Egyptians after his death in court on Monday. "It is sad, from a...More
Britain, France and Germany plan a new push to keep Iran in the 2015 nuclear deal despite Tehran's threat to violate one of its central limits, but they may be nearing the end of the diplomatic road...More
Amnesty International has urged Egyptian authorities to investigate the death of former Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, who died suddenly aged 67 after collapsing in court in Cairo during a trial...More
While tens of thousands of Algerians have been gathering for four months in the capital to demand sweeping political reforms, former fighters who led the last confrontation with the establishment...More
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party lost its bid to capture its first mayor's office in the country in a bellwether election on Sunday ahead of three key regional polls. In a run-off...More
The U.N. counterterrorism chief visited Xinjiang last week despite protests from the U.S. and a rights group that the trip would be inappropriate in light of the human rights conditions in China's...More
Fallen Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir was seen in public on Sunday for the first time since being ousted, as he was driven in an armed convoy to the prosecutor's office. The former strongman, who...More
Hospital ventilators shut down, football matches with obligatory water breaks and food spoiling in fridges without power: Iraq's notorious summer has arrived. As one of the hottest countries in the...More
The EU's second most senior diplomat affirmed the bloc's support for the nuclear deal between world powers with Iran, including via the use of a new payment system for barter-based trade designed to...More
Like millions of other Muslims, Cory Ireza from Indonesia travelled to Mecca to pray in the Grand Mosque. But she also found a new attraction just a stone's throw away from Islam's holiest shrine...More
Guido Steinberg says the world should be preparing for an armed conflict between the United States and Iran. "If this goes on as it has been going on for two months now we will see a military...More
Bearing pictures of scars and bruises she said she had suffered at home, Fatna Ben Ghala sought help at a women's counselling centre in a poor neighbourhood near Morocco’s capital Rabat after she and...More
A video parodying an Indian air force pilot who was briefly captured by arch-rival Pakistan earlier this year has gone viral ahead of a highly-anticipated World Cup clash between the two cricket-mad...More
"Egypt’s position on supporting the Libyan National Army in its campaign to eliminate terrorist groups across Libya will never change," Egyptian President Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi told reporters...More
U.S. and African Union diplomats stepped up efforts on Thursday to find a peaceful solution to a standoff between Sudan's protesters and generals following a deadly crackdown on demonstrators. The...More
On Thursday Iraq's president, Barham Salih, stressed the importance of the role played by Christian Iraqis in building Iraq and their contribution to its progress and civilisation. President Salih...More
The United States accused Iran of carrying out attacks that left two tankers ablaze in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, escalating tensions across the region and sending world oil prices soaring...More
The United Arab Emirates' Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier discussed the war in Yemen when they met in Berlin on Tuesday, according to the...More
Protest leaders have agreed to end a campaign of civil disobedience launched after a deadly crackdown on demonstrators and to resume talks with Sudan's ruling generals, an Ethiopian mediator said on...More
Moroccan lawmakers have unanimously approved a bill that confirms the Berber language's official status, eight years after it was preliminarily recognised in a new constitution. The new law is...More
The succession of two powerful cousins to the top government posts in Iraqi Kurdistan has sealed the Barzani family's "monarchic" rule over the autonomous region, analysts say. With his son and...More
The Trump administration is pressing Saudi Arabia to show "tangible progress" toward holding those behind the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to account and wants them to do so before the...More
A group of 65 Rohingya Muslims have been found on a shipwrecked boat off the coast of southern Thailand, Navy officials said on Wednesday as authorities investigated whether they had been trafficked...More
The flags hanging outside Anwar Ragaua's house have drawn warnings from police, but the wiry 50-year-old vows he's not taking them down. After all, the police weren't there to help when he was the...More
Children studying in Senegal's Koranic schools face "alarming rates" of abuse, including rape, neglect and imprisonment, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, urging the government to reform the still-...More
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is strongly urging all countries to implement a U.N. arms embargo against Libya, saying illegal weapons transfers by land, sea and air are fuelling the current...More
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani on a visit to Tehran this week, in a bid to ease tension between Washington and Iran...More
Checking her blind spot, Fatima Dzhambulatova changes lanes on a busy avenue in Chechnya's capital Grozny. In this Muslim republic of Russia, she is spearheading a women-only taxi service. At the...More
Greece's leftist government on Friday said an official mosque in Athens, over a decade in the making, would open by September to satisfy a longstanding demand by tens of thousands of Muslims in the...More
Bure'e Mahjoub still hopes democracy will prevail over military rule in Sudan despite the bullet wounds he sustained in a raid on a protest camp that signalled another Arab uprising was facing the...More
The Islamic State group has lost its caliphate in Syria and Iraq, but in the forbidding mountains of north-eastern Afghanistan the group is expanding its footprint, recruiting new fighters and...More
The corner where Heyitkah Mosque in China's restive Xinjiang region once hummed with life is now a concrete parking lot where all traces of the tall, domed building have been erased. While Muslims...More
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived in the Sudanese capital on Friday to broker talks between the ruling generals and protest leaders after a deadly crackdown by security forces this week...More
Over 500 Turkish judges and prosecutors have applied to have cases heard at Europe's top rights court after they were caught up in the crackdown after the failed 2016 coup bid, the court said on...More
Heavily armed paramilitaries roamed the Sudanese capital on Thursday, forcing fearful residents to hide indoors after a crackdown on protesters that authorities admitted had left dozens dead and...More
U.S. President Donald Trump said he believes Iran wants to engage in negotiations and he would be prepared for such talks, as French President Emmanuel insisted Paris and Washington share the same...More
Spain has asked the European Union to increase the financial aid allocated to Morocco to help it counter illegal migration flows, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said this week. “Morocco is...More
Tunisia's secular Tahya Tounes party, founded this year, elected Prime Minister Youssef Chahed as its president on Sunday, confirming expectations of his leadership months before parliamentary and...More
The United States on Thursday praised Kazakhstan for not turning back Uighurs fleeing neighbouring China, which has rounded up an estimated one million people from the mostly Muslim ethnic group...More
Members of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim groups known to protest and harass Christian Arizona churches that aid immigrant families on behalf of the federal government were sued on Tuesday by a...More
Sudan's protest movement called on Tuesday for fresh rallies and rejected the military rulers' election plan after some 60 people were killed in what demonstrators called a "bloody massacre" by...More
Syrian NGOs have decried the inaction of the international community to mounting violence in the last jihadist stronghold of Idlib, saying it has triggered the biggest wave of displaced people since...More
Algeria's constitutional council said on Sunday that it was impossible to hold elections to choose a successor to ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika early next month as planned, after the only two...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"