European tourists should continue visiting Tunisia despite two deadly terrorist attacks, a top EU official urged on Monday, as the bloc...More
A new Kuwaiti law imposing mandatory DNA tests on citizens and foreigners violates the right to personal privacy and should be amended,...More
The United Arab Emirates announced on Monday new legislation imposing harsh sentences – including the death penalty – for crimes related...More
Germany believes Iran should rethink its stance on Israel as last week's nuclear deal means it must "bear new responsibilities, at home...More
Bahrain summoned a senior Iranian diplomat to the Gulf nation this week to protest against comments made by top Iranian leader Ayatollah...More
At least 28 people were killed on Monday in a suicide attack in a Turkish town on the Syrian border, with officials pointing the finger of...More
Prime Minister David Cameron will today launch a five-year plan to defeat Islamic extremism, saying it's time to counter the ideology that...More
Australian officials urged vigilance on Monday following nationalistic and anti-Islam rallies, to ensure sentiment does not boil over into...More
Addressing his congregation on the Eid al-Fitr holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan, Imam Mohamed Abdul-Azeez implored worshipers to...More
Five people were killed after a gunman went on the rampage at two military-related facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Thursday....More
The Israeli military says its warplanes struck the Gaza Strip yesterday in response to a rocket launched from the coastal area into...More
An Indonesian court jailed three members of China's Uighur minority for six years each...More
Four youths arrested in Morocco for drinking fruit juice in public during the daylight hours of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan...More
India and Pakistan exchanged gunfire and mortar bombs along their disputed frontier on Thursday, killing five civilians and injuring more...More
Turkey's top court has struck down legislation that would have shut thousands of private schools, dealing a blow to President Tayyip...More
Turkey's top administrative court has removed its block on a controversial redevelopment of an Istanbul park that in 2013 sparked the most...More
As many as 100 bodies, presumably of sub-Saharan boat migrants, have washed up near the Libyan city of Tajoura, a Malta-based website on...More
On Wednesday, Taliban leader Mullah Omar hailed as "legitimate" peace talks aimed at ending Afghanistan's 13-year war, in his first...More
Saudi Arabia has warned Iran not to use its power and cash to interfere in regional affairs after Tehran gets long-awaited sanctions...More
US President Barack Obama will hold a press conference today as he tries to convince Americans, allies and sceptical lawmakers about the...More
Britain should spend more of its defence budget on spy planes, drones and special forces to counter militants and Islamic State in Iraq...More
Malala Yousafzai told world leaders they were failing Syria's children, as the Nobel Peace Prize winner spent her 18th birthday on...More
A stampede during a Ramadan charity handout killed at least 27 people in Bangladesh on Friday as hundreds of desperately poor people tried...More
Even non-fasters suffer in Pakistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which prohibits everyone from eating or drinking in public as...More
Maternity trousers that seek to cover Muslim women's private parts during childbirth have been heavily criticised by women's groups in...More
Tunisia criticised Britain's decision to urge tourists to leave the country after last month's terrorist attack, saying the damaging of...More
Omar Sharif, the Egyptian-born actor who soared to international stardom in two David Lean epics, "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago...More
Saudi Arabia's former foreign minister, Saud al-Faisal, who held the post for 40 years, died on Thursday in the United States, a close...More
Hundreds of lawyers have registered to defend two women who went on trial in Morocco on Monday accused of "gross indecency" for wearing...More
Israelis and Palestinians mark one year since last summer's devastating war in the Gaza Strip today, with a ceasefire still largely...More
A Buddhist monastery in Bangladesh is serving food to hundreds of poor Muslims during Ramadan in a rare example of social harmony between...More
Britons laid flowers at the sites of the 2005 London suicide bombings and held a nationwide minute of silence for the victims yesterday on...More
Kuwait deployed unprecedented security measures around Shia mosques for Friday prayers following a recent deadly bombing, as the emir...More
Morocco said last week that it arrested nine suspects for spreading Islamic State group propaganda and trying to recruit people to join...More
A long-running enquiry into the deaths of seven monks beheaded during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s cast doubt on the official...More
Girls in stylish athletic wear walk the runway as the sounds of Taylor Swift and Katy Perry blare from speakers. The Minneapolis crowd...More
Writing in the British newspaper "The Daily Telegraph" on Monday, Cameron called for a response to the deadly attack in Tunisia "both home...More
Tour operators have begun pulling out European tourists from Tunisia a day after a gunman killed 39 people at a resort hotel in the city...More
The largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines handed over dozens of assault weapons on Tuesday in a symbolic gesture to reinforce a...More
The trial of two men arrested for kissing in public resumed in Morocco on Tuesday, where a string of recent controversies has reignited...More
In California's capital city of Sacramento this month, stark black billboards loomed over highways and faded commercial strips, offering...More
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stressed this week that there was no link between extremism and Islam, as he opened a conference aimed...More
The Pakistani government shut down the offices of the international aid group Save the Children in the capital, Islamabad, without giving...More
Muslims in the Nordic region can expect new guidelines for coping with a sun that never sets ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, a...More
The spokesman for Libya's internationally-recognised parliament has rebuffed pressure by the West and the United Nations on lawmakers to...More
Moroccan authorities expelled two Amnesty International researchers they said were in the country without permission to study the...More
A French mother has taken the government to court for failing to stop her teenage son from leaving the country to join jihadists in Syria...More
European powers on Wednesday urged Libya's warring factions to accept a peace deal within days, warning them that without an accord, the...More
Women in the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh have been banned from entertainment venues like cafes and sports halls after 11 p.m., the...More
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom accused Saudi Arabia on Tuesday of handing a "medieval" punishment to a blogger sentenced to 1,...More
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reeling from shock election results, on Tuesday accepted the resignation of the cabinet but asked the...More
Three people were killed on Tuesday, including the leader of an Islamist charity, in clashes between rival Kurdish groups in Diyarbakir,...More
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