Angry crowds evacuating from the last shred of territory held by Islamic State militants in Syria praised the extremist group on Wednesday and chanted "Islamic State will remain", in a menacing show...More
On a sloped, cobblestone street in southern Albania sits a small shop, empty except for a dozen framed panels on the walls bearing photos and stories from 500 years of Jewish life. It may be modest...More
An activist group says a prominent human rights lawyer in Iran who defended women protesting against the Islamic Republic's mandatory headscarf, or hijab, has been convicted and faces years in prison...More
The United Nations investigator on religious freedom said on Tuesday he has asked China to let him visit its Xinjiang region where some 1 million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims are in facilities...More
Pakistan said on Tuesday it had begun a crackdown on Islamist militant groups, detaining 44 members of banned groups including close relatives of the leader of a group blamed for a deadly bombing in...More
Iraqi authorities are prosecuting children suspected of ties to the Islamic State group in a "deeply flawed" process, using flimsy accusations or confessions obtained through torture, Human Rights...More
Senior Catholic clergy in Morocco called on Tuesday for freedom of conscience and respect for migrants' rights, ahead of a visit by Pope Francis later this month. The pontiff is due to visit the...More
The Muslim foundation which runs the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, the Waqf, said on Tuesday that it will defy an Israeli court order barring access to part of the flashpoint holy site. There...More
They grew up in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia and can place Israel on a map, but many young refugees in Sweden have never heard of the Holocaust. Their first contact with Jewish history in Europe is...More
European Union countries on Monday added Syria's interior minister and six other new ministers to a sanctions blacklist for their role in President Bashar al-Assad's "violent repression" of civilians...More
Award-winning Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid was released on Monday after spending nearly six years in prison following his arrest while covering a bloody crackdown on protests. The...More
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's offer of a new constitution and a truncated next term does not appear to have satisfied protesters, who faced off with riot police overnight. Crowds of...More
Leading House Democrats will offer a resolution on Wednesday condemning anti-Semitism in response to Ilhan Omar's latest remarks on Israel, a senior Democratic aide said. The declaration, written by...More
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has slammed opposition parties for demanding evidence about last week's military strike inside Pakistan and support for him is rising, pollsters say, despite the...More
The Handelsblatt business daily argues that Germany should heed the calls of the United States and Kurdish militias fighting Islamic State in Syria and accept back captured German members of the...More
Yaakov Baruch is the rabbi at Indonesia's only synagogue, but he keeps his religious identity under wraps, like most of the tiny Jewish community living in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation...More
The U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, which serves Palestinians, was absorbed into the new U.S. Embassy to Israel on Monday, the State Department said, a merger that has angered Palestinian leadership...More
The grand imam of Egypt's famed Al-Azhar institution, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, has described polygamy as an "injustice" for women. "Polygamy is often an injustice to women and children," said the...More
Several top European politicians backed Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel on Thursday after he told Arab leaders he was gay and could be condemned to death in some of their countries,...More
Macky Sall has been re-elected president of Senegal for a second term, according to provisional results published on Thursday. Figures released by the National Vote Counting Commission (CNRV) showed...More
Singing in Arabic, an Israeli musician is winning over listeners from Tel Aviv to Baghdad, covering tunes by his grandfather and great uncle, an Iraqi Jewish duo who were once two of the Arab world's...More
The new United Nations envoy for Syria proposed on Thursday that major powers create a common international forum to move the war-battered country toward peace. Geir Pedersen, who took up his post in...More
The United States on Thursday offered a $1 million reward for information on a son of late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, seeing him as an emerging face of extremism. The location of Hamza bin...More
A Belgian court's decision to overturn a ruling forcing it to repatriate two Belgian women convicted of being Islamic State militants and their six children from Syria has left their family...More
Bangladesh told the UN Security Council on Thursday that it will no longer be able to take in refugees from Myanmar. Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told a council meeting that the crisis over the...More
Indian military officials said on Thursday they welcomed Pakistan's planned return of a captured pilot, but refused to confirm they would de-escalate a conflict between the two nuclear powers. The...More
Eight years after fleeing war in Somalia, Ifrah Ahmed returned to her ravaged homeland with a mission – to end the "silent killer" of female genital mutilation. Somalia has the world's highest rate...More
Dramatic mobile phone footage, first-hand accounts on social media and other digital content, often made by protesters dodging censorship, have helped immortalise Tunisia's 2011 revolution in a new...More
Amnesty International urged Morocco on Tuesday to "immediately" free a newspaper publisher sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of rape and other offences, after a trial his lawyers say was...More
U.S. senators said on Monday that a Trump administration briefing had not changed opinions on the need to push back at Saudi Arabia over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and its conduct in...More
By pledging to try 13 French Islamic State group fighters, Iraq has assumed the role of judge and jailor for the suspected jihadists – thereby saving Paris the controversy of repatriating them...More
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani flattered and praised Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday in a bid to keep the top diplomat in office following his shock resignation. Zarif announced...More
Thousands of children displaced from the Islamic State group's last redoubt in north-eastern Syria show signs of psychological distress, a British charity said on Wednesday. Save the Children...More
New Delhi sought to ease soaring tensions with an infuriated Islamabad on Wednesday after carrying out an airstrike on Pakistan's territory, as the U.S. urged the nuclear-armed neighbours to "...More
Lebanon's Foreign Minister Jubran Bassil said Monday that the British government's decision to add the political wing of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah to its list of banned terrorist...More
Sports retailer Decathlon on Tuesday cancelled plans to sell an Islamic head covering for female athletes in France after an outcry from politicians and what it said were threats. The decision was...More
President Muhammadu Buhari has won a second term as the leader of Africa's most populous nation, a tally of official election results collated by journalists showed on Wednesday. Although the...More
EU and Arab League leaders on Sunday started their first-ever summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh with the aim of enhancing co-operation on migration, terrorism and trade. Egyptian...More
Mahershala Ali exudes a quiet intensity in his acting, whether he is playing a drug dealer, a Washington lobbyist, a detective or a world-class musician. That strength has earned him a second Oscar...More
Nigeria on Sunday awaited results from its presidential election, as civil society groups warned that disorganisation and violence may have undermined the polls. Results from Saturday's vote were...More
U.S.-backed Syrian forces warned on Sunday that they were struggling to cope with an outpouring of foreigners from the Islamic State group's imploding "caliphate", urging governments to take...More
Pakistan re-imposed a ban on two charities run by a U.S.-designated terrorist blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, officials said on Friday. The Interior Ministry said it decided on the ban during a...More
Two sisters from Saudi Arabia who fled the conservative kingdom and have been hiding out in Hong Kong for nearly six months said they did so to escape beatings at the hands of their brothers and...More
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, long wanted on genocide and war crimes charges, has declared a nationwide state of emergency as he bids to stay in power despite weeks of anti-regime protest...More
Israeli police arrested and later released a top Palestinian Muslim official in Jerusalem on Sunday after scuffles at a flashpoint holy site in the city in recent days. The arrest drew condemnation...More
Nearly two years after the Chinese government began to detain members of Muslim minority groups in western China, a growing number of family members abroad are refusing to remain silent. On Sunday,...More
European and Arab leaders are to hold their first summit on Sunday, in what the top EU diplomat sees as a chance to boost co-operation across a troubled Mediterranean region. President Abdul Fattah...More
Some of the fiercest Muslim rebel commanders in the southern Philippines are in Manila to be sworn in as administrators of a new Muslim autonomy region in a delicate milestone to settle one of Asia's...More
Turkey ordered the arrest of 295 serving military personnel on Friday, the prosecutor's office said, accusing them of links to the network of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says...More
The U.S. ambassador to Lebanon expressed concerns on Tuesday over the militant Hezbollah group's growing role in the new cabinet, saying it does not contribute to stability. Hezbollah, which also...More
Nesma Ghanem is hoping for a fourth child even though her doctor says her body can't handle a pregnancy at the moment. She has three daughters and would like them to have a brother. "In the future he...More
More than 100,000 people have been displaced by factional fighting and lawlessness in Burkina Faso, most within the past two months, according to a U.N. report published this week "Burkina Faso is,...More
The Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa has just had its sixth Car-Free Day, a monthly initiative launched by the government to encourage non-motorised transportation and fight air pollution. By Maria Gerth-Niculescu
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