India will lift restrictions on people's movements and communication links in Kashmir in the next few days, the federal government told the Supreme Court on Friday. The court was hearing a petition...More
Gibraltar's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favour of releasing an Iranian supertanker seized on suspicion of shipping oil to war-torn Syria in breach of international sanctions, in a blow to the...More
Thousands of people, many waving Pakistani and Kashmiri flags, protested outside the Indian High Commission in London on Thursday in support of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. India's...More
With a push from President Donald Trump , Israel on Thursday barred two Muslim-American congresswomen from entering the country for a visit, an extraordinary step bringing the longtime U.S. ally into...More
A UN human rights expert on Monday called on the French government to repatriate and try seven French nationals sentenced to death on terror charges in Iraq , drawing a sharp rebuke from Paris. In a...More
When Senegal's Muslim families gather for the biggest Islamic religious feast of the year, they often encourage the Christian minority to join them in a tradition of tolerance rare in West Africa...More
Mohammed Alaa Aljaleel recently went on a dangerous rescue mission to Syria's north-western province of Idlib. His goal: to save animals left behind by people fleeing heavy shelling and airstrikes...More
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged on Tuesday Tehran's continued support for Yemen's Houthi movement and called for dialogue among Yemenis to safeguard the war-shattered nation's...More
A U.S. delegation arrived in Turkey on Monday to begin working with Ankara on creating a buffer zone in northern Syria, under a plan strongly rejected by Damascus. Turkish and U.S. officials struck a...More
Prime Minister Imran Khan travelled to Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday where he was expected to issue a fresh challenge to India over its recent power-play which has sent tensions between the nuclear-...More
India's move to carve up Kashmir and curtail its autonomous powers has caused division and anger in parts of the far-flung Himalayan region even as followers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejoice...More
Riyadh and Abu Dhabi put on a display of unity over Yemen, but the capture of Aden by UAE-backed separatists exposes simmering divisions that analysts say weaken their joint campaign against Iran-...More
The main city in the India -administered part of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir has turned into a vast maze of razor wire coils and steel barricades as drones and helicopters hover overhead...More
An uneasy calm prevailed in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday as people celebrated a major Islamic festival during a severe crackdown after India moved to strip the disputed region of its...More
The southern separatists' takeover of Aden, the interim seat of Yemen's government, could leave Saudi Arabia struggling to hold together a military coalition fighting the Iran-aligned Houthis. It...More
Morocco has compensated hundreds of victims of human rights violations dating back more than six decades. Authorities say people considered eligible and their families, over violations from 1956 to...More
The Islamic State group vowed to intensify its fight against the U.S.-led coalition and Kurds in eastern Syria, in a video posted on Sunday on its Telegram channel. "The fire of the battle between us...More
Two leading rights groups are demanding an independent probe into detention conditions of an Egyptian-American citizen held in Egypt on terrorism charges. Human Rights Watch and The Freedom...More
Nearly 100 people including the prime minister have thrown their hats into the ring to become Tunisia's next president, with a last minute rush to meet last Friday's registration deadline. A total of...More
Syrian regime forces seized a town on the edge of Idlib on Sunday, a monitor said, in their first ground advance in the province since an escalation on the jihadist-dominated enclave more than three...More
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan asked on Sunday if the international community was just standing by as Indian Hindu nationalism spread into Muslim-majority Kashmir , saying it was the same as...More
President Donald Trump has often railed about an "invasion of illegals" at the southern border, words echoed in a screed the El Paso shooting suspect apparently posted that called the attack that...More
Turkey said on Thursday that the deal it has reached with Washington to set up a so-called safe zone in northeastern Syria is a good start, but warned against delays in implementation. Turkish...More
More than 2 million pilgrims have gathered in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform initial rites of the hajj, an Islamic pilgrimage that takes the faithful along a path traversed by the...More
Mother of five Zalina Gabibulayeva says she was "tricked" into joining the jihadists in Syria five years ago. Now, repentant and repatriated to Russia's Chechnya, she goes into schools to teach...More
Indian authorities will ease a curfew in troubled Kashmir so that the Muslim-majority population can go to Friday prayers, the region's police chief told journalists. "People are allowed to pray...More
Tens of thousands of government forces in riot gear patrol Indian-controlled Kashmir . Streets lined with shuttered shops are deserted, steel barricades and razor wire cutting off neighbourhoods. An...More
Pakistan's foreign minister is visiting China as part of efforts to pressure India to reverse its decision revoking the special status of the disputed region of Kashmir. Shah Mahmood Qureshi will...More
President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that Iran favours talks with the U.S. if it lifts sanctions against the Islamic republic, despite his top diplomat turning down a meeting with U.S. President...More
The attack on a Texas Walmart that left 22 people dead bore all the classic hallmarks of America's cycle of mass shootings: A lone shooter. Multiple casualties. A white male accused of the crime. But...More
The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group was "resurging" in Syria while the United States withdrew troops and has solidified its insurgent capabilities in neighboring Iraq, a U.S. Defence Department...More
Thousands of visitors descend on the Moroccan coastal city of El Jadida each July to attend the largest equestrian show in the kingdom – a breathtaking horseback performance that combines...More
Businesswomen in Afghanistan are adamant that there will be no going back to the days of repression under the Taliban and the progress women have made over the past 18 years will not be reversed...More
Veteran Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir ruled the northeast African country for three decades with an iron fist. Now Sudan is turning the page, ushering in a new era of civilian rule. A constitutional...More
Armed soldiers stand in front of barbed wire in Indian Kashmir's near-silent summer capital of Srinagar during a massive security lockdown imposed on the restive region by the Hindu nationalist...More
Pro-government forces and opposition fighters exchanged fire in northwest Syria on Tuesday, killing seven civilians, a war monitor said, after Damascus scrapped a ceasefire. A Friday truce was...More
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed on Tuesday to challenge at the UN Security Council India's decision to strip Kashmir of its special autonomy, a move he warned could provoke conflict in the...More
India is redrawing its political map again. Parliament has approved a proposal by the Hindu nationalist-led government that strips statehood from Jammu and Kashmir, its only Muslim-majority state,...More
Bent over a computer tablet in war-torn northwest Syria , cartoonist Amani al-Ali takes her pen to the screen to sketch life in the embattled opposition bastion of Idlib. "I'm trying to get across...More
Algerians descended on the capital in huge numbers on Friday and called for "civil disobedience" for the first time in their months-long anti-regime campaign, despite a heavy police presence. "Civil...More
Sudan's ruling generals and protest leaders signed a hard-won constitutional declaration on Sunday, paving the way for a transition to civilian rule after more than seven months of demonstrations and...More
As the United States reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets...More
An Indonesian man is walking backwards from his home in eastern Java to the capital Jakarta to raise awareness of deforestation in a country with one of the highest rates in the world. The more than...More
India's government used a presidential order to revoke the special constitutional status of its portion of Kashmir on Monday amid an uproar in Parliament and a huge troop deployment in the disputed...More
Yazidi women and girls who were enslaved and raped by Islamic State militants have few choices. They may have been freed, but they can't bring home the children they had with the extremists. Five...More
India's government on Monday revoked the special status of Kashmir in a bid to fully integrate its only Muslim-majority region with the rest of the country , the most far-reaching move on the...More
India's government on Monday revoked the special status of Kashmir in a bid to fully integrate its only Muslim-majority region with the rest of the country , the most far-reaching move on the...More
More and more Turks are turning to atheism. That could very well have to do with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly theocratic politics, observers say. According to a recent survey by the...More
Security forces detained Lotfy Ibrahim, a young construction worker, as he left a mosque near his home on the Nile Delta in the spring of 2015. When his family finally saw him again nearly three...More
U.S. President Donald Trump's advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner met on Thursday with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo to discuss Washington's plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace...More
From the once pristine rivers of Hindu Kush to the slums of Islamabad, Pakistan is being smothered by plastic due to a lack of public awareness, government inertia and poor waste management. Plastic...More
President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday that Iran was ready for the worst in an uphill struggle to salvage its nuclear deal with world powers abandoned by the United States, but that he was sure...More
Sheikh Hussein is a town in the Oromia region in south-eastern Ethiopia. The tomb of the 13th century Sufi Sheikh Hussein who introduced Islam to the area and is said to have performed many miracles is still visited by thousands of people. By Eric Lafforgue
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Muslims in Liberal Democracies
Why the West Fears Islam
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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''