Greece's leftist government on Friday said an official mosque in Athens, over a decade in the making, would open by September to satisfy a longstanding demand by tens of thousands of Muslims in the...More
Bure'e Mahjoub still hopes democracy will prevail over military rule in Sudan despite the bullet wounds he sustained in a raid on a protest camp that signalled another Arab uprising was facing the...More
The Islamic State group has lost its caliphate in Syria and Iraq, but in the forbidding mountains of north-eastern Afghanistan the group is expanding its footprint, recruiting new fighters and...More
The corner where Heyitkah Mosque in China's restive Xinjiang region once hummed with life is now a concrete parking lot where all traces of the tall, domed building have been erased. While Muslims...More
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived in the Sudanese capital on Friday to broker talks between the ruling generals and protest leaders after a deadly crackdown by security forces this week...More
Over 500 Turkish judges and prosecutors have applied to have cases heard at Europe's top rights court after they were caught up in the crackdown after the failed 2016 coup bid, the court said on...More
Heavily armed paramilitaries roamed the Sudanese capital on Thursday, forcing fearful residents to hide indoors after a crackdown on protesters that authorities admitted had left dozens dead and...More
U.S. President Donald Trump said he believes Iran wants to engage in negotiations and he would be prepared for such talks, as French President Emmanuel insisted Paris and Washington share the same...More
Spain has asked the European Union to increase the financial aid allocated to Morocco to help it counter illegal migration flows, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said this week. “Morocco is...More
Tunisia's secular Tahya Tounes party, founded this year, elected Prime Minister Youssef Chahed as its president on Sunday, confirming expectations of his leadership months before parliamentary and...More
The United States on Thursday praised Kazakhstan for not turning back Uighurs fleeing neighbouring China, which has rounded up an estimated one million people from the mostly Muslim ethnic group...More
Members of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim groups known to protest and harass Christian Arizona churches that aid immigrant families on behalf of the federal government were sued on Tuesday by a...More
Sudan's protest movement called on Tuesday for fresh rallies and rejected the military rulers' election plan after some 60 people were killed in what demonstrators called a "bloody massacre" by...More
Syrian NGOs have decried the inaction of the international community to mounting violence in the last jihadist stronghold of Idlib, saying it has triggered the biggest wave of displaced people since...More
Algeria's constitutional council said on Sunday that it was impossible to hold elections to choose a successor to ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika early next month as planned, after the only two...More
Sri Lankan Muslim politicians holding top government positions have resigned, saying they want to enable the government to investigate allegations against some of them on links to Islamic extremist...More
Muslims across the Middle East and beyond began marking the Islamic holiday of Eid ul-Fitr on Tuesday, one of the most celebrated holidays for the world's 1.5 billion Muslims, amid confusion about...More
Streaming services in the Middle East are competing for Arab audiences, with U.S. giant Netflix set to release its first Arabic production in June, chasing a slice of a potentially lucrative market...More
It was looking to be a good year for farmers across parts of Syria and Iraq. The wettest in generations, it brought rich, golden fields of wheat and barley, giving farmers in this war-torn region...More
Sudanese security forces moved against a protest sit-in camp in the capital on Monday, besieging the site, torching tents and clashing with activists, said witnesses and protest leaders. Gunfire and...More
Ankara and Moscow are again facing an escalation of violence in Syria's last rebel-held territory, a development that puts their co-operation to the test even as they support opposing sides in the...More
Hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews guarded by riot police streamed their way into the Jerusalem compound revered both in Judaism and Islam on Sunday, resulting in violence between police and outraged...More
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, speaking about the unannounced U.S. Middle East peace plan, said on Sunday that his country would not accept anything undesired by the Palestinians. Speaking...More
Iran's judiciary on Sunday sentenced a journalist to two years in jail for "spreading misinformation" and "insulting" the country's supreme leader and authorities, his lawyer told state media. Masoud...More
Pakistani state-run media says British Airways has resumed flights to the South Asian country, over a decade after they were suspending in the wake of a truck bombing of a hotel in the capital, which...More
Over the click-clack of the teak loom, Niphon's family laments the lack of apprentice weavers at his Bangkok silk shop, as modernity lures young Muslims away from a trade their community has...More
Shortly before midnight, a buzzing crowd stood patiently in a line that bent around the corner of a community centre and stretched far back into the night. After a countdown, the throng streamed into...More
Egyptian football fans readied to cheer on national hero Mohamed Salah in Saturday's Champions League clash and tuck into food from a cart whose owner vows they'll "never eat alone". A tribute to the...More
A Canadian Conservative MP has been booted from a parliamentary committee after reading into the public record an excerpt from the Christchurch shooter's manifesto while berating a Muslim witness...More
Amnesty International on Monday led some 30 other rights groups in Mauritania in asking the candidates in the presidential election later this month to end slavery and violence against women in the...More
Sudanese authorities on Thursday shut down news broadcaster Al Jazeera's Khartoum office, as thousands of protesters gathered outside the country's military headquarters to pressure the ruling...More
Saudi Arabia's King Salman opened an emergency summit of Arab leaders in Islam's holiest city of Mecca on Friday with a call for the international community to use all means to confront Iran, but he...More
Israel's prime minister has been a vocal critic of Iran over the years, accusing the Islamic Republic of sinister intentions at every opportunity. But the outspoken Benjamin Netanyahu has remained...More
The controversial founder of a major private television channel in Tunisia has said he will run for presidency of the North African nation in November polls. Nabil Karoui, 50, announced his decision...More
Mali's government should consider "dialogue" with jihadists waging an insurgency in the west African state, the International Crisis Group (ICG) think tank suggested this week. The idea of talking to...More
Facebook and Twitter said this week that they had shuttered accounts used in an Iran-based social media campaign to sway public opinion by impersonating reporters, politicians and others. Facebook...More
Nida Mohammed drove for more than an hour from Fujairah to Sharjah in the UAE just to buy special Iraqi sweets and juices for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. "Over there (in Fujairah) you can't...More
Thousands of Algerian students and teachers took to the streets of the capital on Tuesday chanting slogans against the armed forces chief currently dominating the country and plans for an election in...More
U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Tuesday in Rabat as part of a fresh push on a long-promised but yet-to-be-delivered peace plan for the region...More
The German government's anti-Semitism commissioner has urged Germans to wear kippahs in public on Saturday. Felix Klein, in comments carried by Funke media group newspapers on Tuesday, said that...More
At least five Turkish foreign ministry personnel were tortured after their arrest over a failed coup, a lawyers' association claimed on Tuesday, supporting similar allegations by an opposition MP...More
Egyptian security forces have committed widespread abuses against civilians in northern Sinai, some of which amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday. Egypt's ground and air...More
A woman jailed in Iran for one year for removing her hijab in public to protest against the country's Islamic dress code has been released early, her lawyer said on Tuesday. "Vida Movahedi was...More
The chants grew louder as the army pick-up passed. "Power to the civilians," the dozens of young Sudanese bankers cried outside their closed Khartoum branch, heeding a protest group's calls for a...More
The creator of a photo exhibit of Holocaust survivors in Austria expressed dismay Tuesday that his portraits were slashed and daubed with swastikas in three attacks this month, but said the vandalism...More
An Australian teen who egged a far-right senator over his offensive comments about the Christchurch mosque attacks says he has donated almost U.S.$69,000 raised for his legal defence to the victims...More
Qatar said on Sunday that it had received an invitation from Saudi Arabia to attend emergency regional talks to discuss mounting tensions between Iran and the United States. Riyadh had called two...More
Iraqi leaders has warned of the risks of war during a visit by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, whose country is locked in a tense standoff with the United States. Zarif's visit to...More
Algeria's Constitutional Council said on Sunday that two candidates had registered for the country's disputed July 4 presidential election, hours after public radio reported that a deadline had...More
Iranian state TV has fired two channel managers over a live programme deemed insulting to Sunni Muslims, it said in a statement on Sunday. The sackings at Channel 5 came after a broadcast on 20 May...More
With talks suspended between protest leaders and Sudan's military over a transfer of power to civilian rule, Islamist movements are backing the army in the hope it will keep Sharia law in place...More
Germany's government commissioner on anti-Semitism has warned Jews about the potential dangers of wearing the traditional kippah cap in the face of rising anti-Jewish attacks. "I cannot advise Jews...More
Within eyeshot of the Bosnian-Croatian border, thousands of refugees are camping in squalor on a former garbage site. Their supplies are scarce. Photographer Dirk Planert was among them
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''