Mauritania has released a blogger who drew international attention after being accused of blasphemy, his lawyer and the campaign group RSF said on Tuesday. Cheikh Ould Mohamed Ould Mkheitir, who was...More
About 130 inmates have been on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison for more than six weeks in protest at inhumane conditions and denial of family visits, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. Many...More
Germany's Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday he was very sceptical about a request by the United States to join a military mission for the Strait of Hormuz. The United...More
Dozens of passengers, mainly women and children, were killed in western Afghanistan early on Wednesday when the bus they were travelling in hit a roadside bomb, officials said. The attack, which came...More
Authorities in the Chinese capital have ordered halal restaurants and food stalls to remove Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam from their signs, part of an expanding national effort to "...More
Tensions in Indian-administered Kashmir rose on Sunday over the weekend deployment of at least 10,000 paramilitary troops to the troubled region despite authorities' assertions the move was routine...More
On Saturday Bahrain executed three men convicted in two separate cases, one involving the killing of a police officer and the other the killing of a mosque imam, the public prosecutor said in a...More
Nigeria's government has banned a Shia Muslim group whose followers have been holding protests to demand the release of their detained leader, accusing the group of inciting violence. At least 20...More
Iran said on Sunday that a state television anchor who was once detained in America could interview Mike Pompeo, after the top U.S. diplomat said he was willing to talk to its people. Pompeo said...More
Morocco's King Mohammed VI , who on Tuesday will mark 20 years on the throne, has cast himself as a modernist open to change – while discretely exercising absolute power. He has often presented that...More
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said in an interview on Friday that he will push ahead with sweeping and potentially unpopular economic reforms, including a more business-friendly labour law, in his...More
Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh after a brutal military crackdown might be able to apply for citizenship if they return to the country, a top Myanmar official said on...More
Hundreds of protesters have rallied outside Parliament House in Canberra highlighting the uncertain futures of many refugees since Australia replaced permanent protection visas with temporary visas...More
It’s just after 6 a.m. and a Palestinian man's face is momentarily bathed in crimson light, not by the sun rising over the mountains of Jordan, but by a facial recognition scanner at an Israeli...More
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country's first democratically elected leader and a symbol of the generation of Tunisians who shook off French rule in the 1950s, has died. He...More
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said he would like an opportunity to go to Tehran to speak to the Iranian people directly, amid heightened tensions between Washington and the Middle...More
Up to 150 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, were missing and feared drowned on Thursday after the boats they were travelling in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya , the...More
Charity group Action Against Hunger on Thursday demanded the release of six aid workers kidnapped in north-eastern Nigeria and held by jihadists aligned to the Islamic State group. The Paris-based...More
Tens of thousands of protesters participated in opposition rallies in Pakistan on Thursday demanding the removal of Prime Minister Imran Khan a year after he came to power in controversial elections...More
German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Thursday underlined the importance of continuing the mission against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq . She said she viewed the presence of...More
Sajid Javid became Britain's first ethnic minority finance minister on Wednesday, capping off an unlikely rise from a humble start on a street dubbed the country's worst to holding the purse strings...More
English soccer's anti-racism monitors say cases of discrimination have risen for the seventh straight year. The Kick It Out group says it tracked 581 cases of discrimination in the 2018-19 season,...More
Jordan's king is standing by a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ahead of a meeting in Amman with White House's Middle East adviser Jared Kushner . King Abdullah II met on...More
President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed three congressional resolutions barring billions of dollars in weapons sales to countries including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which are...More
Sudan' s army chief was among several people arrested in a coup plot, the country's military said on Wednesday, shortly after reports emerged of at least a dozen high-ranking army officers and...More
The United States on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Kuwait , Indonesia and South Africa to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes on the...More
China on Monday thanked the United Arab Emirates for backing its security crackdown in Xinjiang, state media said, as President Xi Jinping played host to Abu Dhabi's crown prince. Beijing has come...More
Three Sunni Muslim men were sentenced on Wednesday to prison terms of 16 and 22 years on convictions including engaging in a terror act by burning down a Shia mosque in the Australian city of...More
Two neighbouring nurseries in the eastern German city of Leipzig have backtracked on their decision earlier Tuesday to remove pork from the children's lunch menu after a fierce debate ignited online...More
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday that he would meet with the Taliban after returning to his country, as part of efforts to end 18 years of war in Afghanistan . Khan spoke from...More
Germany's United Nations ambassador criticised the United States on Tuesday for its Middle East policy, saying Washington should not pick and choose which parts of international law to support and...More
Nigeria n troops and police clashed on Tuesday with Shia Muslim protesters in the capital Abuja and gunfire could be heard, according to a Reuters witness. The air was thick with teargas as soldiers...More
The far north-western region of Xinjiang is an "inseparable" part of China despite efforts by extremists to distort history and facts in a bid to split the country, the Chinese government said in a...More
Jared Kushner will return to the Middle East later this month as he pushes his controversial plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, a senior official in President Donald Trump 's...More
US President Donald Trump is likely to press Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan for help on ending the war in Afghanistan and fighting militants when the two leaders meet at the White House on...More
In his Bethlehem cellar, distiller Nader Muaddi made fewer than 500 bottles of his liquor last year but has won international accolades and now aims to help revive interest at home in the traditional...More
There was unconfined delight not only in Algeria but also in Paris after a strange goal decided the final of the Africa Cup in favour of the Fennecs. On the other side, for Senegal, there was only...More
She may have spent 40 days in jail for demonstrating against president Omar al-Bashir, who has since been toppled, but activist Amani Osmane says the battle for women's rights in Sudan is far from...More
Pakistan on Friday said it has agreed with the country's clergy to introduce reforms in madrassa religious schools to bring them into line with conventional schools, curbing hate speech and extremist...More
Following losses in key cities this year , Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan now risks losing more voters as former allies stick their heads above the parapet and appear to be on the verge of...More
Thousands of people partied in the streets when Algeria won its quarter-final of the African Cup of Nations on 11 July and then again for the semi-final on 14 July, but the celebrations were later...More
Bangladesh has arrested 12 men suspected of targeting Rohingya refugees for trafficking, police said on Friday, amid concerns over the growing desperation of the refugees. Two Rohingya women and a...More
Turkey on Thursday launched an air attack on Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the killing of a Turkish diplomat in the region, the country's defence minister said. The Turkish vice consul to Iraq's...More
Germany's foreign ministry has launched an investigation after learning that the head of the country's mission to the Palestinian territories had "liked" several anti-Israel tweets, the Bild...More
Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday urged Saudi Arabia to free Raif Badawi, a blogger jailed and publicly whipped for insulting Islam, in a rare criticism of the US ally as he vowed to champion...More
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 attempted attack on a synagogue in Halle is not the first in recent years. Even after the horrors of the Nazi era, anti-Semitic incidents occur in Germany — on individuals, memorials and Jewish places of worship. By Bettina Baumann
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''