With 24 hours left before the scheduled close of UN-brokered talks on Yemen, mediators pushed on Wednesday for a truce between warring parties as a crucial step to allow aid deliveries. Mediators are...More
Pakistan on Wednesday rejected Washington's decision to place it on a blacklist of countries that violate religious freedom, branding the move "politically motivated" and defending its treatment of...More
The small town of Abassan in the Gaza Strip is a tough place to infiltrate: Everyone knows everyone and outsiders passing through quickly attract attention. So when strangers drove through town,...More
An EU court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak to lift a freeze on his assets in Europe that followed his ouster in the 2011 revolution. European Union member...More
Turkey will launch a new operation in Syria within days against a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia that Ankara considers a terrorist group, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. "We...More
Seven mass graves containing hundreds of unidentified bodies have been unearthed near the former Islamic State group stronghold of Albu Kamal in eastern Syria, official news agency SANA said. Most of...More
Lebanon will definitely form a new government despite the obstacles, its caretaker foreign minister said on Wednesday, after President Michel Aoun intervened in the stalled process and warned of a "...More
Two police officials have identified the suspected Strasbourg gunman as 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt. A French prosecutor says witnesses heard the suspected gunman shout "God is great" in Arabic during...More
A historic renovation of the Church of the Nativity is lifting spirits in the biblical town of Bethlehem ahead of Christmas, offering visitors a look at ancient mosaics and columns that have been...More
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in October at his country's Istanbul consulate, was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" Tuesday, an honour he shared with other targeted...More
Tens of thousands of Malay Muslims rallied in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday to celebrate the Malaysian government's refusal to ratify a UN convention against racial discrimination. After weeks of pressure...More
As Morocco prepares to host the signing of a landmark global migration agreement, hundreds of migrants are languishing in a Casablanca camp rife with hunger, misery, lice and filth. These sub-Saharan...More
Turkish police on Friday arrested dozens of military personnel in another round of nationwide raids against people with alleged links to the group blamed for the 2016 failed coup, state media...More
A year since Iraq announced "victory" over the Islamic State group, the country finds itself in the throes of political and economic crises left unresolved during the long battle against jihadists...More
The parties locked in a long-standing conflict over Western Sahara took a step towards reviving negotiations last Thursday, as they agreed in Geneva to hold another round in the first quarter of next...More
Nayabans isn't remarkable as northern Indian villages go. Sugar cane grows in surrounding fields, women carry animal feed in bullock carts through narrow lanes, people chatter outside a store and...More
Farouk Baakar was on duty as a medic at al-Rashid hospital the day a bleeding man was brought into the emergency room with gunshot wounds and signs of torture. He'd been whipped across the back and...More
Pope Francis, who has made boosting ties between Christianity and Islam a cornerstone of his papacy, will visit Abu Dhabi in February, the Vatican said on Thursday, becoming the first ever pope to...More
Two Jordanian families aim to put wine from their desert land on the world viticultural map, reviving an age-old tradition that some suggest has Biblical heritage. Wine lovers like to say that the...More
Representatives from around the globe are gearing up for a major conference in Morocco to endorse a United Nations migration pact, despite a string of countries shunning the accord. The Global...More
U.S. senators, bent on punishing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, said on Thursday they want to vote next week to penalise Riyadh, but struggled...More
At the crack of dawn in Kabul, dozens of girls and women bounce along a path leading up a barren, rocky mountain on the edge of the Afghan capital, relishing every step of freedom. The all-female...More
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says there is compelling evidence that the Myanmar military committed genocide against Rohingya Muslims last year. "Our analysis concludes there is...More
Security forces in Mozambique waging the fight against jihadists in the country's north are guilty of "serious abuses" of human rights including summary executions, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday...More
A Greek court has agreed to release Syrian refugee Sarah Mardini, once lauded for helping to save people in a sinking dinghy at sea, who was detained in August accused of helping illicit migrant...More
A vote in Iraq's parliament on the remaining candidates for Cabinet seats was postponed again on Tuesday amid deep divisions over the key defence and interior portfolios. Deputy Speaker Hassan al-...More
A UN team authorised over a year ago to investigate the massacre of the Yazidi minority and other atrocities by jihadists in Iraq will finally begin work early next year, the head of the...More
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made an apparent threat on Tuesday to disrupt other countries' oil shipments through the Gulf if Washington presses ahead with efforts to halt Iranian oil exports...More
The first UN-backed discussions on the disputed Western Sahara region since 2012 open in Geneva on Wednesday, but expectations remain low, with the meeting seen as just a first step towards resuming...More
Prosecutors in Rome on Tuesday formally opened an investigation into five Egyptian domestic secret service members and police investigators in connection with the 2016 torture and murder of an...More
The majority of those in Australia-run immigration detention camps on the Pacific island of Nauru are suffering from "extreme" and "inhumane" levels of mental health issues, according to Doctors...More
Israeli police on Sunday said they had found enough evidence for bribery and fraud charges to be brought against Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife in a third corruption case against the Israeli prime...More
Independents have won most seats in Bahrain’s parliament after a two-round election that the opposition boycotted, according to official results released on Sunday. The first round was held on 24...More
Tens of thousands of Indonesian Muslims held a rally in Jakarta on Sunday led by hard-line groups who had agitated to remove the city's Christian governor, underscoring the growing influence of...More
An Egyptian film star faces trial next month for promoting immorality after attending the Cairo Film Festival in a see-through dress, state-owned online newspaper Al-Ahram Gate reported on Saturday...More
Twenty Yemeni children huddle together outside Khokha hospital, hoping to be let into a clinic that serves as a lifeline for tens of thousands. On the narrow pavement, a boy dressed in purple leans...More
The IOC has set up an advisory committee on human rights chaired by Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, former United Nations commissioner for human rights. President Thomas Bach said on Saturday at meetings in...More
The death of former U.S. president George H.W. Bush stirred bitter memories for Iraqis Saturday of "Mr Embargo" – the man behind crushing sanctions they blame for ravaging their country. Under Bush's...More
High up in Lebanon's mountains, the lifeless grey trunks of dead cedar trees stand stark in the deep green forest, witnesses of the climate change that has ravaged them. Often dubbed "Cedars of God...More
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has demanded that the country's mosques be more independent of foreign donors. Mosque communities should "largely" organise and finance themselves and the...More
The two women in the photograph were smiling, but Halmurat Idris knew something was terribly wrong. One was his 39-year-old sister; standing at her side was an elderly woman Idris did not know. Their...More
An Indonesian city plans to slap its gay and transgendered residents with a one million rupiah ($70) fine for disturbing "public order", underscoring a marked rise in discrimination against the...More
Turkey on Thursday lambasted an "unacceptable" decision by a British court to reject a request from Ankara to extradite a prominent businessman accused of providing financial support for the 2016...More
Italian prosecutors have named several members of Egypt’s national security agency as suspects in the alleged murder of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni – the first Egyptians to be named by the...More
In the Syrian city of Raqqa, children wear hats, scarves and coats to guard against the winter cold as they struggle to catch up on years of lost learning in a classroom with no doors or glazed...More
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency says a Sunni cleric who had worked to reconcile Sunnis and Shias, members of the two biggest sects in Islam, was shot and killed on Tuesday in a village in...More
Hundreds of Tunisians staged the first protests of the Arab world against Saudi Arabia's crown prince as he arrived on a visit on Tuesday, denouncing him as a murderer involved in the killing of...More
A new Indonesian government app that lets the public report suspected cases of religious heresy is drawing fire, as rights groups warn it could aggravate persecution of minorities in the world's...More
A Chinese award-winning photojournalist vanished in the restive northwest region of Xinjiang earlier this month after he was reportedly detained by security agents, his wife said. The wife of Lu...More
A Syrian refugee who spent months in limbo in a budget terminal at a Malaysian airport has arrived in Vancouver after he was granted permanent residency by Canada, a government source and his lawyer...More
Ali al-Boussefi and his wife Zeinab al-Bashari are on a mission to promote the practice of Islamic calligraphy in Libya, even at the risk of offending hardliners in the country. "We hardly have...More
Air strikes hit the edges of Syria's last major rebel stronghold west of Aleppo on Sunday, a monitor said, a day after an alleged toxic attack on the regime-held city. The Britain-based Syrian...More
Mauritania straddles the transition between the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa, its population equally divided between Africans and Arabs. By Pascal Mannaerts
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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"