Egypt's president said on Thursday that his country "will not stand idle" against threats to the national security of Egypt and Arab countries, in a meeting with tribal leaders from eastern Libya...More
An Istanbul court on Thursday sentenced Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yucel, in absentia, to two years and nine months in jail on charges of spreading propaganda for the banned Kurdistan Workers'...More
Every night in Bangalore, Parvez Shaikh's 18-month-old son wakes up in tears, calling for his mother who is in the United States – one among hundreds of families staring at an uncertain future after...More
As coronavirus restrictions ease, business is rebounding in Cairo’s cafes, restaurants and shops. In the evenings, the sounds of street vendors plying their wares blends with the honking of horns, as...More
Egypt has started offering reusable cotton face masks at around $50 cents each alongside the food items provided in its state subsidy programme, as it seeks to make protective gear more widely...More
Turkey marked the fourth anniversary of an attempted 2016 military coup on Wednesday with ceremonies and memorial events for the people who died in the failed effort to overthrow the government that...More
Turkey's Hagia Sophia could open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian icons will remain, religious officials said on Tuesday, after a court ruling paved the way for it to become a...More
A new law in Pakistan -administered Kashmir that envisages castrating paedophiles, either chemically or surgically, has triggered a debate on maintaining a balance between creating deterrence for a...More
A Malian Islamist rebel accused of being central to the "persecution" of residents of Timbuktu and the destruction of the city's holy grounds refused to enter a plea on Tuesday as his lawyers argued...More
It's been a tough month for religious minorities in Pakistan, and observers warn of even tougher times ahead as Prime Minister Imran Khan vacillates between trying to forge a pluralistic nation and...More
Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh resigned on Wednesday, according to two official sources who did not want to be named, after a row with the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party. Fakhfakh, who is...More
A car bomb claimed by the Taliban exploded on Monday near the offices of Afghanistan's intelligence agency in the north of the country, wounding dozens of people, officials said. The insurgents...More
A member of staff at the German government press office suspected of working for Egyptian intelligence did not have access to sensitive information, a German government spokeswoman said last Friday...More
An Australian man who pleaded guilty to killing 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's worst mass shooting in 2019 has decided to represent himself a month ahead of the sentencing hearing, the court...More
Bosnian Muslims marked the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre on Saturday, the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II, with the memorial ceremony sharply reduced as a result of...More
Indonesian doctor Susana Somali and her staff cut tightly-bound plastic ropes off dozens of whimpering dogs rescued from the butcher's block after being sold or abandoned during the coronavirus...More
Their accounts are similar. The girls and women describe meeting the young man – a former student at Egypt's most elite university – in person and online, followed by deceit, then escalating sexual...More
A UN Security Council resolution passed on Saturday that leaves only one of two border crossings open for aid deliveries from Turkey into rebel-held northwestern Syria will cost lives and intensify...More
With Lebanon plunged into an unprecedented financial crisis that has seen the value of the country’s currency collapse, some have switched to swapping goods and services for food and other essentials...More
Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia is to re-open for Muslim worship as a mosque after an almost nine-decade hiatus, in the latest historic tussle with Christianity over religious sites. The UNESCO World...More
Sudan will permit non-Muslims to consume alcohol and the country will strengthen women's rights, including banning female genital mutilation (FGM), its justice minister said late on Saturday. This...More
Iraqi lawmaker Ghida Kambash died Friday after contracting the novel coronavirus, parliament announced, its first member to succumb to the virus as its spread ramps up across the country. The 46-year...More
Lebanon's economic crisis is getting out of hand, the UN rights chief warned on Friday, calling for urgent internal reforms coupled with international support to prevent further mayhem. Michelle...More
China said on Friday it will impose tit-for-tat measures after the United States slapped sanctions on Chinese officials for their involvement in a crackdown on Muslim minorities, raising tensions...More
Relatives of the Bosnian Muslims killed in the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II are getting ready to mark 25 years since the Srebrenica massacre on Saturday, but for many Serbs the...More
Turkey's highest administrative court on Friday issued a ruling that paves the way for the government to convert Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia – a former cathedral-turned-mosque that now serves as a...More
A Turkish court is set to rule on Friday on a 1934 presidential decree converting Istanbul's Hagia Sophia into a museum. Two Turkish officials have said they expect the decree to be annulled, paving...More
An Indonesian politician is under fire for ordering female civil servants to wear face veils once a week in what he defended as a bid to guard against the coronavirus. But critics said the loose...More
Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have extended authorisation for cross-border humanitarian aid in Syria for a year. Germany and Belgium, two of the...More
Exiled Uighurs urged the International Criminal Court on Tuesday to investigate China for genocide and crimes against humanity, filing a huge dossier of evidence with the Hague-based court to back...More
Egypt's public prosecutor has charged a university student with indecent assault of at least three women, including one who was a minor at the time, in a case prompted by a social media campaign that...More
By the end of May, the Palestinian Authority appeared to have quashed a coronavirus outbreak in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with only around 400 confirmed cases and just two fatalities in the...More
The powerful Hezbollah group said on Tuesday it is in talks with the Lebanese government about the possibility of Iran supplying the country with refined oil products in exchange for Lebanese pounds...More
Israel on Monday re-imposed a series of restrictions to fight a spike in coronavirus infections, including the immediate closure of bars, gyms and event halls, while also redeploying a contentious...More
Jobless and broke, Sudanese electrician Hatem is stranded in limbo in Riyadh like countless other illegal workers, but he hopes the fast-spreading coronavirus will offer a chance for escape. While...More
Two people died and another three were injured on Tuesday when an explosion rocked the factory south of Tehran, Iran's official IRNA agency reported, blaming human error. The blast in "a completely...More
The killing of jihadism expert Hisham al-Hashemi has stirred fears Iraq is entering a dark and violent phase, as boiling tensions between pro-Iran factions and the government reach new heights...More
Egypt's highest criminal court on Saturday upheld a 15-year sentence for one of the leading activists behind the country's 2011 uprising who was convicted of taking part in clashes between protesters...More
A Turkish court on Friday convicted Amnesty International's former Turkey chairman, Taner Kilic, of membership in a terror organisation and sentenced him to more than six years in prison. The court...More
Celebrated Egyptian actress Ragaa al-Gedawi died aged 81 on Sunday in a quarantine hospital weeks after testing positive for the new coronavirus, state media reported. In late May, al-Gedawi, a...More
For Amer al Dahn, the idea of eating meat is now a dream. Today, he can't even afford bread and depends on credit from the local grocer to feed his wife and four children in the Lebanese city of...More
Iran on Sunday instituted mandatory mask-wearing as fears mount over newly spiking reported deaths from the coronavirus, even as its public increasingly shrugs off the danger of the COVID-19 illness...More
Last Friday Algeria received the skulls of 24 resistance fighters decapitated during France's colonial occupation of the North African country and which had been stored for decades in a Paris museum...More
The number of women among Salafist extremists in Germany has increased, Sunday tabloid Bild am Sonntag reported, citing an as yet unreleased survey by the domestic intelligence office BfV. Their...More
Suspected Islamic extremists opened fire on a U.N. aid helicopter in northeastern Nigeria over the weekend, killing two civilians in an escalation of hostilities in the long troubled region...More
Encouraged by U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called "deal of the century", Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in a position to start his controversial West Bank annexation plan...More
Saudi Arabia announced health protocols to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in the 2020 haj season, banning gatherings and meetings between pilgrims, the state news agency said on Monday...More
A woman who had plotted a suicide bomb attack on London's St Paul's Cathedral this Easter in support of Islamic State was jailed for life on Friday and told she must serve at least 14 years behind...More
An Australian white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslim worshippers in last year's New Zealand mosque shootings will be sentenced next month after delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic, court...More
A court in Istanbul is expected on Friday to announce its verdict in the trial of 11 human rights activists accused of terrorism-related charges after nearly three years. Among the defendants are...More
Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas pledged unity against Israel's West Bank annexation plans in a rare joint conference on Thursday, as signs emerged of a rift between Israel and Washington...More
It's been more than 60 years. But the scene is seared still into Kawthar Ali's mind. The women pinned her down on a bed. She was maybe 5 1/2 or 6 years old. Holding her knees, they spread her legs...More
The Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has burned to the ground. The situation is dire, but it was already grave before fire swept through Europe's largest and most overcrowded refugee camp.
