A Bangladeshi lawmaker has been slammed online for calling the police on teenage lovers kissing in a park and posting their photos on social media in the socially conservative country. Ekramul Karim...More
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared unfamiliar with the work and cause of Nobel laureate Nadia Murad as she pleaded with him to help the Yazidis of Iraq. Murad, one of thousands of women...More
The US House voted on Wednesday to block $8.1 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other allies, a rebuke of Donald Trump that will likely lead to a veto by the president. Lawmakers, many of...More
It features an Israeli prime minister, Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, a hit squad and a Shin Beth spy chief. But this is not another story on the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict,...More
Nigeria beat Tunisia 1-0 in the third-place game at the African Cup of Nations on Wednesday with an early goal by Odion Ighalo, the tournament's leading scorer. Ighalo scored from close range in the...More
Turkey on Wednesday lambasted an "unfair" US move to exclude the country from NATO's F-35 stealth fighter jet programme over Ankara's controversial purchase of a Russian missile defence system. "This...More
Russia has sent special forces in recent days to fight alongside Syrian army troops struggling to make gains in a more than two-month assault in north-western Syria to seize the last opposition...More
The United States on Tuesday banned visits by Myanmar's army chief and three other top officers due to their role in the "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya minority, urging accountability for their...More
Australia's government on Wednesday called on China to allow an Australian child and his Uighur mother to leave the country, stepping up pressure on Beijing days after Canberra co-signed a letter...More
As Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Israel's longest-serving prime minister, he is solidifying his place as the country's greatest political survivor and the most dominant force in Israeli politics in his...More
Mark Esper, the nominee to be the new US defence secretary, said on Tuesday that he was disheartened to see Turkey drift away from the NATO alliance in recent years and again warned Ankara over its...More
The captain of the team was born on the outskirts of Dublin. The man of the match in the final was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. The guy entrusted to bowl the most crucial over of a...More
In an open field on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Raqqa, workers in black uniforms, surgical masks and red hardhats toil under a scorching sun to dig up bodies from a large mass grave...More
Egypt's parliament on Monday approved amendments to a controversial law that rights groups say imposes strict curbs on non-governmental organisations. The changes come after President Abdel Fattah al...More
The Philippine president has signed a bill into law penalising a range of acts of sexual harassment including catcalling, wolf-whistling and persistent telling of sexual jokes, which pro-women's...More
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned on Monday that the United States is "playing with fire", echoing remarks by President Donald Trump as the two sides are locked in a standoff over...More
A senior member of Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas has encouraged Palestinians across the globe to kill Jews, drawing outrage from both Israeli and Palestinian officials as well as a UN envoy. In video...More
Palestinians on Monday denounced President Donald Trump's attack on US Rep. Rashida Tlaib, accusing him of racism and saying it once again proves his bias against the Palestinian people. Tlaib, a...More
Egypt on Sunday opened a museum commemorating internationally renowned writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz after a 13-year delay. Mahfouz, the first and so far only Arab to be awarded the Nobel...More
Bangladesh's former military dictator H.M. Ershad, who seized power in a 1982 coup, has died. He was 89. Ershad had long been suffering from multiple complications including infections in his lungs...More
Officials from Pakistan and India met on Sunday for a second round of talks on a proposed visa-free corridor to allow pilgrims to visit a holy Sikh shrine in Pakistan. Representatives from the two...More
India on Monday postponed the launch of a lunar probe less than an hour before blast-off because of a technical problem, delaying its bid to become only the fourth nation to land a spacecraft on the...More
Twenty-six people were killed and 56 injured in a 12-hour attack by al-Shabab jihadists on a popular hotel that ended early Saturday in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. A suicide bomber...More
The Lebanese parliament speaker said new U.S. sanctions against Hezbollah officials were an "assault" on Lebanon, as the move weighed on the heavily indebted state's sovereign bonds on Wednesday. The...More
Scores of senior members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party condemned on Wednesday the rising influence of a local leader who is militantly anti-immigrant and wants to highlight...More
Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Egypt of "indefinitely" holding dissidents in prison, keeping them in detention despite court rulings ordering their release. The rights group said it...More
More than 20 countries have written to top United Nations human rights officials condemning China's treatment of Uighur and other minorities in the western Xinjiang region, in a letter released on...More
An Islamist lawmaker who heads an alliance of three opposition parties has been elected speaker of Algeria's parliament, state television said. Slimane Chenine, leader of a parliamentary alliance of...More
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards rejected on Thursday a U.S. claim that they tried to stop a British tanker in the Gulf a day earlier, the Guards said in a statement carried by the semi-official...More
French press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) confidentially met top Saudi officials in Riyadh to press for the release of journalists after the murder of dissident writer Jamal...More
Four men have been arrested in the northern Nigerian city of Kano for allegedly carrying out a false marriage on Facebook, which the Islamic enforcement agency said had mocked Islam. Kano is among 12...More
The cancellation of a concert by rapper Nicki Minaj in Saudi Arabia triggered a fresh social media storm on Wednesday, with many fans in the ultra-conservative kingdom voicing disappointment and...More
Hundreds of Shias demonstrated in the Nigerian capital on Wednesday to demand the release of their jailed leader, a day after clashes with police left several protesters dead. Members of the Islamic...More
An agreement by the Taliban to respect women's rights may seem like a breakthrough, but activists have questioned how the hard-line Islamists – notorious for stomping on freedoms – will interpret the...More
Short-sighted anti-immigrant populism in some European Union member states has blocked the integration of Western Balkan countries into the EU, weakening the region's stability, Turkish President...More
The U.S. special envoy for peace in Afghanistan wound up on Tuesday the seventh round of talks he has held with the Taliban in Qatar, after signs of progress in efforts to end the longest war the...More
Ahmad Yassine was working in his barbershop in Istanbul's working-class district of Kucukcekmece when he saw an angry crowd gather. Then they attacked his business and others owned by Syrians. "They...More
Amidst mounds of sand capped by hand-written signs naming the dead, Khadom embraces the tomb of her son, one of the more than 200 killed in Sudan's months-long turmoil. It was an April morning when a...More
Iran welcomes France's efforts to save the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, as French President Emmanuel Macron's top diplomatic adviser visits Tehran for talks...More
Supporters of an imprisoned Shia cleric clashed on Tuesday with security forces around Nigeria's parliament building in the latest violent confrontation between the group and the authorities. The...More
The Mauritanian blogger Mkheitir, who is still being detained despite serving jail time for alleged blasphemy, has once more expressed repentance, a condition set by religious chiefs for his release...More
The United States hopes to enlist allies over the next two weeks or so in a military coalition to safeguard strategic waters off Iran and Yemen, where Washington blames Iran and Iran-aligned fighters...More
A German court on Friday sentenced a 32-year-old German woman to five years in prison for membership of the Islamic State terrorist organisation. The woman, named only as Sabine S under German legal...More
Egyptian football fans reacted with anger and sorrow on Sunday after the host team tumbled out of the Africa Cup of Nations in the second round following a lacklustre run marred by a controversy over...More
Iran is raising its uranium enrichment level beyond the 3.67-percent level agreed under the 2015 nuclear accord, Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabei said on Sunday. The move marks Iran's second...More
Sri Lanka is moving to curtail Saudi Arabian influence, after some politicians and Buddhist monks blamed the spread of the kingdom's ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Islam for planting the seeds...More
Even as Egypt struggled against South Africa in the last 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday, the home fans took time to honour a recent tradition. In the 20th and 72nd minutes of a match...More
Tunisia's premier on Friday banned the niqab Muslim face covering for women in government offices, citing security concerns after attacks in the North African country. Prime Minister Youssef Chahed...More
Like most residents of Amran, a strategic gateway to Yemen's capital Sanaa, Mohammed al-Najri thought the capture of his city by Houthi rebels five years ago would not last long. But fighting quickly...More
German police said on Friday that they had opened a criminal investigation after a broadcaster published video of far-right protesters speaking approvingly of the murder of a politician. A...More
Qusayr, a once bustling commercial hub in western Syria, has not seen any fighting since government troops, with the help of Lebanon's powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah group, drove out Sunni Muslim...More
Sudan's ruling generals and protest leaders reached an agreement on the disputed issue of a new governing body on Friday, in a breakthrough power sharing accord aimed at ending the country's months-...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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Why I as a Muslim Woman Don't Wear a Headscarf
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
Turning away from Shia in Iran
''A Tsunami of Atheism''