Prominent Islamic theologian Tariq Ramadan, who is facing two potential rape charges, was granted bail on Thursday by a French court, a judicial source said. The Swiss-born scholar has been held in...More
One of Nigeria's leading and respected Islamic figures on Tuesday renewed calls to tackle endemic poverty and rapid population growth to help end deadly Boko Haram violence. More than 27,000 people...More
A Moroccan court has handed a 12-year prison sentence to a newspaper publisher charged with sexual assault, in a trial his lawyers said was politically motivated. The Casablanca court had found...More
Tunisian Nadia Borji says she wants to be considered as equal, but fears she will end up buried in her town's so-called "slaves" cemetery – because she is black. Black Tunisians, including some...More
Thousands of Afghans have fled to Ghazni city to escape fighting in two Hazara-dominated districts, with some describing the violence on Tuesday as the worst they had seen in the 17-year conflict...More
Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip have announced an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel after a severe escalation of violence threatened to descend into full-blown war. The groups,...More
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has amended a disputed land law that alarmed refugees and the countries hosting them, giving owners more time to register land claims. Law 10, passed in April, gave...More
A Cairo criminal court has added Islamist group Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya as well as 164 of its leaders and members to a list of terrorist entities, Egypt's official gazette said on Sunday. The group...More
Hugh Lovatt, a Policy Fellow with European Council on Foreign Relationsʹs Middle East and North Africa Programme, gave the following comment on Israelʹs 11 November raid on Gaza: "The intent behind...More
Saudi Arabia and the United States have agreed to end U.S. refuelling of aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition battling Houthi insurgents in Yemen, halting a divisive aspect of U.S. support to a war...More
The Taliban intensified attacks in a district heavily populated by minority Hazaras on Sunday, as U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad returned to the region as part of efforts to convince the group to end...More
Hollywood superstar Russell Crowe led tributes Saturday to "true gentleman" 74-year-old Sisto Malaspina, a doyen of Melbourne's thriving cafe culture who was stabbed to death in Friday's rush hour...More
The deaths of two young Saudi sisters, whose bodies washed up along the New York City waterfront last month, have shined a light on the often secretive and risky journeys Saudi women take to flee...More
The Pakistani woman at the centre of a blasphemy case has said she would like to leave the country for Germany, her lawyer said in published remarks on Sunday. Asia Bibi "would be happy if she could...More
Prosecutors in Istanbul on Friday issued detention orders for 103 active duty soldiers over alleged links to an Islamic cleric accused of orchestrating the failed 2016 coup attempt, according to...More
Afghan special forces were deployed on Thursday to beat back Taliban fighters in a district heavily populated by minority Hazaras, which has raised fears of ethnic and sectarian violence. The flare...More
President Donald Trump's strategy to contain Iranian power in the Middle East by forging Arab allies into a U.S.-backed security alliance was in trouble even before the murder of Saudi journalist...More
A seasonal shift in the weather and intensified international diplomacy are prompting Palestinians mounting protests along Gaza's border with Israel to rethink their tactics. Since the demonstrations...More
Kuwaiti sculptor Sami Mohammed finished his towering statue of the country's first emir over four decades ago, but now it just gathers dust unseen in a long-shuttered office block. Stymied by a...More
They have called for the assassination of Pakistan's Supreme Court judges, demanded a mutiny in the armed forces and have vowed to wipe out the Netherlands with nuclear weapons. In just a few years...More
Doctors in Lebanon warned about the dangers of gay conversion therapy on Thursday, saying homosexuality is not a disease – a common misconception in the Arab country. The Lebanese Medical Association...More
Minister Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, warned President Donald Trump not to pull "the trigger of war in the Middle East at the insistence of Israel," speaking Thursday while on...More
Dozens of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Bangladesh have boarded boats to try to reach Malaysia, officials and aid workers said on Thursday, raising fears of a fresh wave of such dangerous voyages...More
A body representing 144 Turkish mosques in the Netherlands has asked Twitter to block the account of anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders for inciting hatred. The Turkish Islamic Cultural Federation (...More
Voters in Minnesota and Michigan on Tuesday elected the first two Muslim women to serve in the U.S. Congress, a former refugee who fled Somalia's civil war and a Detroit-born Palestinian-American...More
A Turkish court sentenced a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish opposition party to 2-1/2 years in jail on terrorism charges, a party official said on Tuesday. Mahmut Togrul, a member the Peoples'...More
Western countries including France, Germany and the United States called on China on Tuesday to close down detention camps that activists say hold 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims. But China...More
Italy said on Tuesday it will help a Pakistani Christian woman leave her country because her life is in danger following charges of blasphemy against Islam that put her on death row for eight years...More
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi ordered a review on Tuesday of a law long criticised by human rights groups that restricts the work of non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Rights groups say...More
Every two months, Mohammaddin visits a tax collector in Chardara district, in northern Afghanistan and is given receipts to show he has paid his tax and utility bills. The service is professional, he...More
Facebook is admitting that it didn't do enough to prevent its services from being used to incite violence and spread hate in Myanmar. Alex Warofka, a product policy manager, said in a blog post that...More
Senior Catholic clerics in Jerusalem called Sunday for Israel to repeal a controversial law giving Jews a "unique" right to self-determination in the country. "We must draw the attention of the...More
Yemeni forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition inched closer to the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Sunday as they battled Iranian-aligned Houthi fighters entrenched there, local military sources and...More
Iran greeted the re-imposition of U.S. sanctions on Monday with air defence drills and an acknowledgement from President Hassan Rouhani the nation faces a "war situation", raising Middle East...More
Jihadists have killed three village chiefs in less than a week in Iraq's restive north, local officials said Saturday, as the targeting of state representatives escalates. Iraq declared victory...More
The husband of a Pakistani Christian woman at the centre of a divisive blasphemy case has pleaded for international help to leave the country, saying he feared for his family's safety. The request by...More
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and an envoy from Russia on Sunday discussed "removing the obstacles" to forming a constitutional committee demanded by international powers to help end the seven-...More
Pakistan authorities on Wednesday deployed troops to major cities to tackle protests by Islamist groups against a ruling by the Supreme Court to free Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of...More
Sports teacher Nehaya Dhaher was living a quiet life looking after her elderly mother in Iraq's tribal south when she was asked to set up the country's first women's wrestling squad. Taking on a...More
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam and ordered her freed, a ruling that set off protests by hardline...More
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Hindu nationalist party has been turning up the heat on some controversial and potentially highly divisive religious issues in recent days, with crucial...More
The Syrian government has accused Turkey of failing to meet obligations set out in an agreement with Russia to create a demilitarised zone free of jihadists in the northwest, at odds with the Russian...More
Tens of thousands of Syrians stranded in a desert camp near the Jordanian border are at risk of starvation amid dwindling supplies and the approach of winter, while regional powers trade blame over...More
Khady knew the man who waited outside her house one evening, followed her down a dark street and put his hand over her mouth. She had refused his offer of marriage several months before. The assault...More
A group of Pittsburgh Jewish leaders wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump on Sunday telling him he bears responsibility for a deadly shooting at a synagogue in the U.S. city. A mostly...More
Tunisian authorities have spent the last five years enforcing "abusive" and secretive travel restrictions which breach human rights , Amnesty International said last week. Since 2013, Tunisia's...More
Dressed in sheepskins and spooky masks, young Moroccans dance through the neglected city streets of Sale north of the kingdom's capital to mark the annual Boujloud festival. Often referred to as...More
Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children converged on Senegal's holy city of Touba on Sunday for the Grand Magal, a traditional annual march and biggest celebration of the Mouride Brotherhood...More
Italy's far-right League party intervened on Sunday to block efforts by a Muslim association to turn a former hospital chapel into a mosque. The Muslim group last week made the highest offer for the...More
A hardline member of Iran's powerful Guardian Council was facing a backlash on Sunday after criticising one of the country's top religious figures for meeting with reformist politicians. The dispute...More
The 26-year-old Yazidi mother faces a heart-breaking choice. Her family is preparing to emigrate from Iraq to Australia and start a new life after the suffering the Islamic State group wreaked on...More
A crowdfunding campaign by two Muslim American groups has raised almost $80,000 for the surviving victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the relatives of the 11 killed. The campaign on...More
The people in the remote Toraja region on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are predominantly Christians, but they are sticking to the old animistic traditions of their ancestors. This also includes the fact that death does not mean the end of a human being. By Darren Whiteside
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