Iran on Sunday denied accusations by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that it was responsible for a drone attack on major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. Pompeo's insinuations were absurd and...More
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to hold on to power in Tuesday's historic repeat election as the shadow of various corruption charges loom over his future. Israel's attorney...More
Thousands of Sudanese rallied in the capital Khartoum on Thursday in the largest protest since the country's transitional government was announced, demanding the chief of the judiciary and general...More
An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced 11 Muslim Brotherhood leaders to life in prison on charges of espionage with the Palestinian group Hamas. The 11 defendants include the head of the outlawed...More
In a small office at the Pakistani Television Corporation (PTV) headquarters in Islamabad, producers are preparing to air a video interview of a Pakistani man and his Chinese bride. The woman in the...More
Benjamin Netanyahu may be Israel's longest-serving prime minister, but he will have to pull another rabbit out of his hat in Tuesday's elections. The 69-year-old is fighting his second election in...More
Barhoum Saleh's town is surrounded by Jewish settlements, the sign above his roadside mechanic shop is in Hebrew, most of his customers are Israeli and he needs an Israeli permit to visit the beach a...More
Saudi Arabia's crown prince hosted a delegation of American Christian evangelicals on Tuesday, state media said, the latest such visit as the conservative Muslim kingdom seeks to repair its image of...More
As he watched a campaign bus pull into town plastered with slogans and posters for one of the 26 candidates for president, Mondher Jawad slapped his hands with fury while the woman next to him...More
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention on Tuesday to annex the Jordan Valley, a large swathe of the occupied West Bank, if he wins a closely contested election just a week...More
Pakistan's foreign minister demanded on Tuesday that the UN launch an international investigation into the situation in Indian Kashmir, warning of the risk of "genocide" in the Muslim-majority region...More
John Bolton's departure from the White House removes an obstacle to the possibility of U.S.-Iranian nuclear talks, but the odds of such a dialogue leading anywhere remain low, current and former U.S...More
The sound of the blast ripped through Kabul, in an instant wrenching the Afghan capital's attention from a nationally televised interview in which a United States envoy revealed the first details of...More
The German daily Allgemeine Zeitung comments on the ousting of U.S. national security advisor John Bolton. In an editorial on Wednesday, the paper writes, in part: "The sacking of Bolton has made the...More
The UN rights chief on Monday voiced alarm over the situation in Kashmir , following India's decision to revoke the autonomous status of the Muslim-majority region last month. "I am deeply concerned...More
Afghans are bracing for a possible new wave of Taliban violence after President Donald Trump abruptly called off talks with the insurgent group, which vows to continue its fight against what it calls...More
Tens of thousands of protesters piled once again onto the streets of the Algerian capital and other cities last Friday with many rejecting the army chief's call for presidential elections before the...More
Australia ordered Internet providers on Monday to block eight websites that published content linked to the Christchurch mosque massacre – a first under new censorship rules. After the alleged gunman...More
Iran's atomic agency chief hit out Sunday at European powers, saying their broken promises gave the Islamic republic little choice but to scale back its commitments under a nuclear deal. Ali Akbar...More
Tunisia has long been seen as a pioneer for women's rights in the Arab world, but on the eve of presidential elections, women are calling this reputation into question. "Men promise a lot to women...More
Authorities on Sunday tightened a month-long security lockdown in Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar after breaking up religious processions by Shia Muslims who defied a ban. A military clampdown...More
India's home affairs minister on Sunday said his government "will not allow a single illegal immigrant to stay", as he visited Assam state where a controversial citizenship register sparked uproar...More
The bell of St. John's Catholic high school, next to the cathedral in Antsiranana in northern Madagascar, sounds for the noon break, and hundreds of students pour into the street. Among them is...More
Iran has rejected an offer of a $15 billion loan by European countries aimed at protecting its economy from sanctions reimposed by the United States , its state-run Press TV reported on Wednesday...More
The United States , Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to a Saudi-led coalition that starves civilians as a war...More
A partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau and an Islamic civil rights group has ended just days after it was announced, following a backlash from conservative media. The Department of Commerce -...More
Mobile phone operators have been asked to stop providing services to Rohingya Muslims living in migrant camps in Bangladesh, officials said on Monday. Nearly 750,000 Rohingya Muslims crossed into...More
The table running across Samya Khasro's living room wall is a shrine to the missing: flickering candles and fading photographs of her 26 Iraqi relatives who vanished 35 years ago. Khasro, who hails...More
Dr. L.N. Dhar vividly remembers the cold morning in Kashmir nearly 30 years ago. He left behind his plush bungalow and a prestigious job at a government hospital, becoming a refugee on the run almost...More
Voters who supported the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in elections in two eastern states have knowingly helped to put "right-wing extremists" in power, the chairman of the Central Council...More
If British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has his way, Magid Magid will be out of a job come 31 October. But the 30-year-old European Parliament representative for the Green party isn't too worried...More
On the face of it, Algeria's state-dominated economy has weathered six months of turmoil well, with flightloads of public sector workers heading abroad for holidays even as protesters who ousted the...More
A group of 155 migrants forced their way into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco last Friday, Spanish authorities said. "They are all from sub-Saharan Africa, the majority from...More
Cities around Pakistan came to a standstill last Friday as tens of thousands of people poured onto the streets in a government-led demonstration of solidarity with the disputed region of Kashmir ,...More
A Sri Lankan court on Sunday banned two ultra-nationalist Buddhist organisations from demonstrating against a major Shia holy day, the first on the island since the deadly Easter Sunday suicide...More
A German constitutional expert said on Thursday that a headscarf ban for girls at school would be legally feasible up to a certain age, as some politicians have shown openness to such a law. Expert...More
Germany's far-right AfD party surged in elections in two ex-communist eastern states on Sunday, reflecting anger over Chancellor Angela Merkel's migrant policy and a wealth gap 30 years after the...More
For the first time in three decades, Sudan has charted a path out of military rule following the formation of a power-sharing government by the pro-democracy movement and the generals who overthrew...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have held talks in Berlin. Abbas called for Europe to play a greater role in the Middle East peace process because he says the...More
India's government sought on Thursday to ease concerns about an imminent "citizens' register" in the state of Assam that has left several million people, mostly Muslims, fearful of becoming stateless...More
Former Bangladeshi students are turning to social media to detail allegations of "rampant" sex abuse at the hands of teachers and older pupils in Islamic schools, breaking their silence on a taboo...More
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran's supreme leader will not meet President Donald Trump unless Washington halts its "economic terrorism" that has hurt ordinary Iranians. Zarif...More
Eighteen years after the assassination of revered anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, his only son is hoping to continue the mission against the insurgents by jumping into Afghanistan's...More
Tariq Ramadan, a leading Islamic scholar charged in France with raping two women, has also been accused of taking part in the gang rape of a journalist, French judicial sources said on Sunday. The...More
Bangladesh's top court has ruled that women need no longer declare if they are virgins on marriage certificates, after a five-year legal battle by women's rights groups trying to protect women's...More
President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday told the United States to "take the first step" by lifting all sanctions against Iran, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was open to meeting. "The...More
Islamic clerics in Sri Lanka are asking Muslim women to continue to avoid wearing face veils until the government clarifies whether they can wear them again now that emergency rule has ended four...More
U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to back off his previous insistence on mediating in the Kashmir crisis in a closely watched encounter at the G7 in Biarritz on Monday. Restive India-administered...More
For 15 years, Yalqun Rozi skillfully navigated state bureaucracies to publish textbooks that taught classic poems and folk tales to millions of his fellow minority Uighurs in China's far western...More
Iraqi President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Monday condemned air strikes on Sunday that hit bases and weapons depots belonging to Iraqi paramilitary groups, which the factions...More
Without weapons, riot gear or even clean uniforms, a group of police officers sat on the sidewalk outside a shopfront in Srinagar, the main city in the Himalayan region of Indian-administered Kashmir...More
Two yellow burkas are on display at a television station in Kabul, bright versions of the blue ghostlike garments some women in the capital still wear. For the young women at Zan TV they are relics,...More
Since the leadership in New Delhi revoked the special autonomy status, previously laid down in the Indian constitution, for the state of Jammu and Kashmir at the beginning of August, the region has been subject to punitive restrictions. By David Ehl
The German Islam Scholar Lamya Kaddor
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''