The far-right Alternative for Germany party has announced it will create a Jewish section within the party, drawing widespread criticism by Jewish groups across the country. One prominent Jewish...More
Two Pakistani men went to their embassy in Beijing on Wednesday to lobby for help in reuniting with their wives, who they say are ethnic Uighurs blocked from leaving China, in an example of how a...More
A Spanish court has sentenced four people to prison terms of up to seven years for recruiting and indoctrinating supporters, mainly young Muslim women, for the Islamic State group via Facebook. Spain...More
U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to present a peace plan for the Middle East by the end of the year and endorsed a two-state solution, apparently confident that the Palestinians would...More
UEFA will select the host of the 2024 European Championship on Thursday in a vote pitting a safe German bid against a riskier Turkish proposal that offers a chance to explore new frontiers. Germany,...More
Trampling on the Palestinians and pushing unilateral initiatives will not resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, taking a swipe at U.S...More
The authorities in Mauritania have closed a school of Islamic theology accused of promoting extremism and having links with the Muslim Brotherhood, a security official told journalists on Tuesday...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a state visit to Germany this week as the two countries seek to rebuild ties after a series of sharp spats, but the controversial trip is likely to be...More
A press freedoms group has called on Egyptian authorities to reverse their decision to take over a daily newspaper a day after security forces stormed its headquarters. Reporters Without Borders said...More
Saudi Arabia will offer an electronic visa for foreign visitors to attend sporting events and concerts from December, the kingdom said on Tuesday, as it tries to diversify its economy and open up its...More
Hard-liners batter President Hassan Rouhani over his faltering nuclear deal, sending his popularity plummeting. Women in the streets film themselves removing their mandatory headscarves, or hijabs,...More
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 66 people to life in prison, including Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie, over an August 2013 attack on a police station in Minya. Death sentences were...More
Thousands of people packed the streets of the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Monday to mourn the victims of an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, including 12 members of the...More
Campaigning for Indonesia's presidential election in April kicked off on Sunday, pitting incumbent Joko Widodo against a former military general in the race to lead the world's third-biggest...More
A gun attack against a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz at the weekend killed 29 people and wounded scores. While the Islamic State group claimed responsibility, Tehran...More
The head covering is among the most identifiable elements of Muslim women's dress and most likely to be portrayed as drab and restrictive to the Western eye. But a new exhibition in San Francisco...More
China must come clean about the fate of an estimated one million minority Muslims swept up in a "massive crackdown" in far western region of Xinjiang, Amnesty International said in a new report on...More
Kurdish-led authorities controlling north-eastern Syria will not be able to hold foreign Islamic State fighters indefinitely and their home countries should take them back, a senior official there...More
The German government has approved several arms exports to three Arab countries involved in the Yemen war. At its most recent meeting, the Federal Security Council agreed to the delivery of four...More
The UN judge responsible for preparing war crimes charges against individuals over the Syrian conflict said on Thursday that her office plans to open at least two cases by year's end. Catherine...More
The World Bank says it has approved a 50-million-dollar grant to help strengthen Bangladesh's healthcare services to address the needs of Rohingya Muslims living in crowded camps. The Bangladeshi...More
A second Swiss canton will vote on Sunday on whether to introduce a regional "burka ban", a controversial law that would prohibit all face-covering garments in public spaces. The ballot in north-...More
As tens of thousands of Uighur families have been swept up in Chinese President Xi Jinping's campaign to subdue the sometimes restive Xinjiang, there is evidence that the children of detainees and...More
An Indonesian city has ordered its top civil servants to visit their local mosque for dawn prayers or risk being sacked, underscoring the growing influence of religion across the world's biggest...More
A troupe acts out a scene from Islam's first century at a crowded tent in Tehran's Grand Bazaar, while in another part of town youths sporting tattoos and wearing torn jeans watch a procession. The...More
The UN Human Rights Council should prepare evidence against perpetrators of atrocities in Myanmar that can be used by prosecutors, Western and Muslim countries demanded on Tuesday. At a session of...More
Both Syria's government and its opposition welcomed the Turkey-Russia deal declaring a de-militarised zone around the major rebel stronghold Idlib, saying on Tuesday the agreement stemmed more...More
Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes a new immigration law will make it easier for foreign workers to find jobs in Germany, but her push to fill a record number of vacancies risks angering voters who still...More
The American man believed to have been the first to leave his country and join Al Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks, has written about his experience, describing jihadist training tactics and the "...More
A court in the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Tuesday freed an Iraqi man who had been held as the main suspect in a deadly stabbing that sparked xenophobic mob violence there last month. Police...More
Malaysia's government has come under renewed pressure to outlaw child marriages after another case of a child bride surfaced in a rural state, the second in two months. The New Straits Times...More
Millions of Shia Muslims in deeply religious Afghanistan are bracing for violence as they prepare to commemorate Ashura, one of the holiest days in the Islamic calendar. Expectations that the Islamic...More
They dug trenches around towns, reinforced caves for cover and put up sand bags around their positions. They issued calls to arms, urging young men to join in the defence of Idlib, the Syrian...More
Echoing some of President Donald Trump's rhetoric, authorities in Egypt are taking aim at an alleged barrage of "fake news" they say is meant to sow division and undermine the rule of general-turned-...More
The United States revoked visas for the family of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's ambassador, the envoy said on Sunday, the latest development in the worsening relations between the Trump...More
Iranian media are reporting that the country's General Prosecutor has ordered the closure of a reformist newspaper on charges of insulting the Shia religion. The Friday reports say that the "Sedayeh...More
The Iraqi parliament elected pro-Iran candidates as speaker and first deputy speaker on Saturday, boosting the country's chances of forming a new administration more than four months after national...More
Prosecutors in Geneva have opened a rape and sexual misconduct investigation against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who has been detained in France since February on separate rape charges, Swiss...More
The opening of the Palestinians' first airport, in the presence of U.S. president Bill Clinton, was a symbol of the hopes for independence and peace kindled by the Oslo accords. But 25 years after...More
Tugay Sarac was just 15 when he first talked about travelling from Germany to Syria to fight for Islamic State. But unlike his friends at the time, Sarac turned to radical Islam as a way of avoiding...More
The West "has abandoned Turkey" and let itself be blackmailed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the issue of migration, prominent exiled Turkish journalist Can Dundar told journalists in an...More
Germany's top diplomat will use a meeting on Friday with his Russian counterpart to try to get the Kremlin to see that a major military offensive on the Syrian rebel stronghold of Idlib has the...More
Kurdish authorities in Syria's diverse northeast are facing swelling anger from the area's Syriac Christians after shutting down more than a dozen schools run by the ancient minority. At the heart of...More
The U.S. State Department expressed deep concern this week over China's "worsening crackdown" on minority Muslims in the Xinjiang region, as the Trump administration considered sanctions against...More
Campaigning kicked off this week for a parliamentary election in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region amid political divisions a year after hopes for independence were dashed. Around 673 candidates from...More
An Egyptian judicial committee on Tuesday announced an asset freeze of more than 1,000 charities tied to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, as well as those of hospitals and individuals. The funds of 1,...More
Syrians escaping violence in Idlib have arrived in villages near the Turkish border in droves, fearing Damascus will launch a full-blown assault on the rebel stronghold. More than 30,000 people have...More
An Uzbek imam has been sacked after urging President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to lift a ban on personal religious symbols such as women's hijabs and beards for men, in a case showing the limits of newly-...More
The White House on Tuesday warned it would hold Iran accountable for any violence attributed to Tehran-allied militias in Iraq that results in damage to U.S. facilities or injures American personnel...More
The UN cultural agency wants to help rebuild Mosu l, the Islamic State terrorist group's former stronghold in Iraq, which has been left in tatters after years of fighting and artefact looting. To do...More
U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis stressed on Tuesday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been well warned against any chemical weapons use in an anticipated assault on Idlib province. The...More
Chinese authorities have drafted sweeping new regulations that would severely restrict religious content online, including images or even descriptions of religious activities from praying and...More
The people in the remote Toraja region on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are predominantly Christians, but they are sticking to the old animistic traditions of their ancestors. This also includes the fact that death does not mean the end of a human being. By Darren Whiteside
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