As Fadi hits a penalty shot into the back of the net, it is hard to believe that just a few years ago the Syrian teenager thought his footballing days were over when a house collapsed on him in an...More
Iran should make more effort to ensure stability in the Middle East and get along with its neighbours, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Friday, as Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned they may block...More
Yemen's warring parties have offered "concrete ideas" to achieve peace, U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths said on Wednesday after meeting Iran-aligned Houthi leaders in the capital Sanaa. Griffiths has...More
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced a former advisor to toppled Islamist president Mohammed Morsi along with 13 other people to life in prison for belonging to an illegal group. Abdullah Shehata...More
A woman from Tunisia's moderate Islamic party was elected on Tuesday as mayor of the capital city, Tunis, the first time a woman has held the post. Souad Abderrahim, a 54-year-old pharmacist of the...More
Even during the World Cup, which brought hordes of foreigners to Russia, the capital of Chechnya remained well off the beaten path for most travellers. The Grozny airport doesn't even have a conveyor...More
The international community must step up support for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in crowded camps in Bangladesh after fleeing a violent military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar...More
Turkish activists and opposition on Monday marked a quarter of a century since the massacre of 33 intellectuals largely from the Alevi minority in a mob attack on a hotel, one of the most shocking...More
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the Syrian army's Russia-backed offensive against rebel groups that has forced some 300,000 people to flee, diplomats...More
NGOs France has "participated in the bloody Egyptian repression" for the past five years by delivering weapons and surveillance systems to President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's government, rights groups...More
Tired and aching with arthritis, Dahouk al-Omar lugs a purse stuffed with all her personal documents to the catering kitchen where she works 12 hours a day. As an unregistered refugee in Lebanon, the...More
An African Union summit opened on Sunday with host Mauritania warning of regional security failings in the face of jihadist violence, as French soldiers were targeted in a fresh attack in Mali. A...More
Gay rights groups and activists pressed ahead with the Istanbul Pride parade on Sunday despite Turkish authorities banning the event for a fourth year in a row. Around 1,000 people gathered near the...More
A suicide bomb attack in a city in eastern Afghanistan where President Ashraf Ghani was visiting killed at least 19 people, including the only Sikh candidate in upcoming legislative elections,...More
Unlike most European nations, who are trying to reduce the influx of migrants, Portugal is bucking the trend by looking to immigration as a way to counter its declining population. "We need more...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition faced an uncertain future on Monday, as her hardline conservative Bavarian allies vowed a final attempt at a deal on migrant policy after she was...More
A crackdown on Indonesia's LGBT community is fuelling a spike in HIV cases as at-risk people avoid prevention services or seeking treatment, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday. Conservative...More
Prosecutors and defence lawyers will present arguments on Monday whether two Reuters reporters accused of obtaining secret documents in Myanmar should be charged, after the six-month pre-trial phase...More
Mounting pressure from the Trump administration combined with discontent among many Iranians at the state of the economy are rattling the Islamic Republic, with little sign that its leaders have the...More
A Saudi TV presenter has left the kingdom, shortly after the broadcasting authority said it will launch an investigation into her dress code violations in the conservative kingdom. The General...More
European leaders struggled to overcome deep divisions on migration at a tense EU summit that dragged into the early morning hours of Friday before yielding vague pledges to strengthen external...More
Pakistan removed a radical Sunni Muslim leader from a terrorist list on Thursday, in a surprise twist that paves the way for his candidates to contest next month's election even as another key ally...More
France's broadcasting regulator issued a warning on Thursday to the French arm of Russian channel RT over a news report which dubbed over the voices of Syrian civilians with words they had not said...More
The Swiss government opposed on Wednesday a grassroots campaign for a nationwide ban on facial coverings in public that will prompt a binding referendum, the latest twist in a Europe-wide crackdown...More
A resounding win by an Indonesian mayor targeted by some hardline Muslims over the construction of a church highlighted a broader failure by Islamists to influence regional and local elections in the...More
A Malaysian mosque has banned tourists after a video of two female visitors in skimpy outfits dancing in front of the Muslim holy site went viral online. The pair, of East Asian appearance and...More
Leaders of a Moroccan protest movement were sentenced to up to 20 years in prison late on Tuesday over their roles in demonstrations that rocked the north of the country in 2016. The figurehead of...More
About 100 residents of a gritty commercial district of Indonesia's capital listen intently as a man roars into a microphone: "Are you ready to change our president? Are you ready for new leadership...More
The Afghan Taliban on Tuesday denounced the so-called Islamic Scholars' conferences in Asia and the Middle East as an "American process" and urged clerics to reject the gatherings. The Taliban...More
Dutch senators overwhelmingly approved a bill on Tuesday to ban the Islamic full-face burka from some public places such as schools and hospitals, ending years of discussion on a hot-button issue. "...More
Amid the celebratory end of Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving on Sunday, some men expressed quiet disapproval of a change they fear will undermine the kingdom's deeply conservative Muslim identity...More
Hindi music pumps from the speakers as dozens of Afghan men grunt and sweat their way through a workout beneath the watchful eye of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose muscle-bound image hangs from...More
Ten people with links to the radical far-right have been arrested by anti-terrorist police in France over an alleged plot to attack Muslims, judical sources said Sunday. The arrests were made on...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won tightly-contested presidential polls, the election authority said Monday, extending his 15-year grip on power, as the opposition complained bitterly...More
Saudi authorities have in the past two months detained at least 16 people, including several identified as women's rights activists, on accusations of treason. The crackdown comes even as the kingdom...More
Last Thursday an Istanbul court ruled to keep the chair of Amnesty International's Turkey branch in jail after over one year behind bars on terror charges, in defiance of complaints by the rights...More
Saudi women celebrated taking the wheel for the first time in decades on Sunday as the kingdom overturned the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform expected to usher in a new era of...More
Jewish rabbis and Muslim imams took to tandem bicycles on Sunday to ride through central Berlin in a joint show of inter-faith respect and against racism and anti-Semitism. Dubbed the "meet2respect"...More
Late on Sunday Nigeria's presidency announced a "deeply unfortunate killings across a number of communities" in central Plateau State, as one report cited police as saying 86 people were dead in...More
All European Union countries need to help southern neighbours, where most migrants are arriving, European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told reporters ahead of a mini-summit on migration in...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sunday's elections risks seeing his vote critically eroded by an unlikely foe – a religiously conservative party with roots in the same Islamic political...More
Saudi King Salman sacked the head of the country's entertainment authority after religiously conservative citizens took to social media to denounce a Russian circus show that included female...More
Forces loyal to Syria's government committed what amounted to crimes against humanity, including deliberately starving civilians, during the siege of Eastern Ghouta, UN investigators said on...More
An Iranian defence lawyer has been arrested after claiming a man executed this week for killing three policemen was innocent, Iran's Fars news agency said on Wednesday. Zeinab Taheri was taken into...More
Lebanon requires "an immediate and substantial" fiscal adjustment to improve the sustainability of public debt that stood at more than 150 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of 2017,...More
The outcome is far from certain in Turkey's elections Sunday, seen as the biggest test for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the ballot box in his one-and-a-half decades in power. Parliamentary and...More
Reclusive Turkmenistan appeared to be cracking down on polygamous relationships on Tuesday, with the parliament issuing new legislation against the practice in the majority-Muslim ex-Soviet republic...More
The arrival of massive numbers of migrants in Europe over the past few years has stirred fierce debate in many EU member states and a number of governments have started to take a much tougher line as...More
Eighteen-year-old student Sena Su Baysal, a first-time voter in Turkey's election on Sunday, can't remember life before President Tayyip Erdogan took power, but she wishes she had grown up in those...More
Four-year-old Syrian refugee Julie al-Masri shrieked with laughter as she ran towards her father, clutching a unicorn-shaped handbag which her mother said symbolised the freedom of their new life in...More
The torturers followed a schedule. Beatings on Saturdays, torture on Sundays and Monday was a break. The next three days were the same routine. On Fridays, it was time for solitary confinement. From...More
Italy's decision to turn away charity vessels carrying rescued sea migrants shows that the country is "no longer Europe's doormat," interior minister and deputy premier Matteo Salvini says...More
More than 70 years after Pakistan's foundation, architectural jewels dating from the British colonial era are being torn down – especially in the economic metropolis of Karachi, many buildings are threatened by the demolition ball. Impressions by Syed Raza Hassan and Akhtar Soomro
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Muslims in Liberal Democracies
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