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
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
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
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
"Your turn, Doctor." Seven years after scribbling the anti-Assad slogan that sparked Syria's war, activists-turned-rebels Moawiya and Samer Sayasina are bracing themselves for a regime assault on...More
Hardliners of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc are poised on Monday to give the German leader an ultimatum to tighten asylum rules or risk pitching the country into a political crisis...More
"The fridge is half empty. How are we supposed to fill the fridge at these prices?" says housewife Ayse Tatar, 54, as she shops for dinner at a bazaar in Istanbul's Uskudar district. According to a...More
A suicide attack in restive eastern Afghanistan killed at least 18 people in a crowd celebrating the Eid holiday Sunday, the second assault in as many days to mar an unprecedented ceasefire. Further...More
Muharrem Ince, a 54-year-old firebrand lawmaker from Turkey's staunch secularist camp, has breathed new life into the weary opposition ahead of critical elections, drawing massive crowds to his...More
Stung by an attack on Muslims in London a year ago, Britain is facing a growing threat from far-right extremists fuelled by online hate speech, forcing the authorities to react. In a country hit by...More
As Muslims around the world celebrated Eid with feasting and gift-giving, Rohingya refugees in squalid Bangladesh camps marked the festival on Saturday with a peaceful demonstration demanding justice...More
Just a short drive from the opulence of Versailles Palace, a closed-off community of strictly conservative Muslims is posing the most visible challenge to French authorities hoping to stem the rise...More
A Saudi television drama that glorifies a period before the rise of religious fundamentalism has evoked nostalgia about the kingdom's "modern past" – and fury from arch-conservatives sidelined in a...More
An Egypt team official has confirmed goalkeeper Mohamed Elshenawy declined to receive a player of the match trophy at the World Cup for religious reasons. The trophy, an artistic red goblet, is...More
Iran has set up strict rules for public viewing of World Cup matches, saying for "cultural and social reasons" they cannot take place in parks or other public grounds, it was reported Wednesday...More
Egypt have been handed a huge boost ahead of their opening World Cup fixture against Uruguay on Friday as star striker Mohamed Salah is set to play. "If nothing unforeseen happens, he will play,"...More
Asked what his reaction will be should his players be subjected to racism, England manager Gareth Southgate and former England international said: "In an idealistic world, people would say to walk...More
Hani al-Laham sits down to a family dinner after a long day of fasting, but he has little to celebrate as the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan approaches. Despite Laham having a monthly salary...More
Indian security forces have used excessive force in Kashmir and killed and wounded numerous civilians since 2016, the United Nations said on Thursday, calling for an international inquiry into...More
British counter-terrorism police have arrested a man on suspicion of sending letters entitled "Punish a Muslim Day" that urged people around the country to commit violent acts. The unnamed 35-year-...More
Millions of Asia's Muslims were on the move on Wednesday as they headed for home towns to celebrate with relatives the Eid ul-Fitr holiday marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. From...More
The Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders will hold a competition of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, it said on Tuesday. The party said the plan to hold the competition...More
It may look like they're just planting and weeding, but for the women tending the public gardens of Jalalabad, the tasks represent far more: the rare chance to work outside the home in one of...More
It's a make or break moment for Indonesian high schooler Puteri Ara and her hijab-clad friends as they rap about religious tolerance to a cheering TV studio audience. Can they beat a rival boy band...More
A Myanmar police investigator failed to show up at court on Tuesday to testify as a prosecution witness against two Reuters reporters who were arrested in December and accused of possessing secret...More
A Saudi-led coalition geared up on Tuesday for a military assault on Yemen's main port, preparing to launch by far the biggest battle of a three-year war between an alliance of Arab states and the...More
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has urged countries to condemn Hamas instead of voting for a resolution on Gaza which she called "fundamentally imbalanced," ahead of a General Assembly meeting...More
Mohamed Salah was relaxing in his hotel room in Grozny when he was informed an important guest dropped in unexpectedly and was waiting for him in the lobby. When the Egypt star forward went down, he...More
Another hearing was postponed on Tuesday in the Serbian trial dealing with the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims from Srebrenica, further delaying the landmark proceedings that opened over a year ago...More
A 10th-century Koran, unique in size and style, has gone on display for the first time as part of a collection of Islamic texts being shown at Israel's National Library to mark the Muslim holy month...More
Egypt's chief prosecutor has referred 28 people to a criminal court on charges including forming an illegal group aiming to topple the government. Sunday's statement by prosecutor Nabil Sadek says...More
A heart-warming musical about an Egyptian band visiting an Israeli desert town triumphed on New York's Broadway late on Sunday, sweeping the board with 10 Tony Awards, the highest honours in American...More
More than 920,000 people were displaced inside Syria during the first four months of 2018, the highest level in the seven-year conflict, the UN said on Monday. "We are seeing a massive displacement...More
Rightwing French leaders have condemned as "sacrilege" a decision to allow a provocative Muslim rapper to play the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where jihadists massacred 90 people three years ago...More
Christian convert Loubna and her husband Kamal marry in a small ceremony in a meeting room of a human rights group in the Moroccan capital, ignoring threats from people in their conservative hometown...More
Australian Rules Football is breaking new ground in the country's Muslim community, embracing its culture and encouraging hijab-wearing women players to broaden the appeal of the country's biggest...More
A leader of Indonesia's largest Muslim organisation is visiting Israel this week, braving angry protests at home in order to spread what he calls a message of interfaith compassion. Yahya Staquf,...More
Even a year ago, it would have been hard to imagine – Saudi women clad in skinny jeans and Harley-Davidson T-shirts, revving motorbikes at a Riyadh sports circuit. But ahead of the historic lifting...More
Wishing Muslims around the world a "Ramadan Mubarak" – a blessed holiday – President Donald Trump on Wednesday hosted his first White House dinner for Islam's holy month of Ramadan, an overture that...More
Austria will expel "several" foreign-funded imams and shut seven mosques in a crackdown on "political Islam", Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced on Friday. Kurz said the moves came after an...More
As dusk falls, shoes come off and hundreds of hungry diners sit cross-legged in a London park to break bread. It is iftar: the traditional sundown dinner that follows 19 hours of fasting in London,...More
Samia Hassan used to have enough money to feed her two dozen children and grandchildren. Now she spends much of her time worrying about food, scouring Gaza's vegetable markets for end-of-day...More
A trip to the indigenous Mayan heartland of Mexico shows how vital the Muslim community is in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. The southern state of Chiapas is home to hundreds of predominantly indigenous Tzotzil men and women, many of whom have converted to Islam from Catholic or other Christian denominations. By Edgard Garrido
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
Junaid Jamshed
"I Was a Sinner for Years"