The Pakistani lawyer of a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy jetted out of the Netherlands on Saturday to "hopefully assist his client for the last time" in a Pakistani court hearing, a Dutch MP...More
As the United Arab Emirates prepares to host Pope Francis in February, the country's minister of tolerance said the first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula will contribute to building bridges...More
A Jewish community leader in Germany said on Thursday she had been targeted with threats and hate mail "almost by the minute" since criticising the far-right AfD party. Charlotte Knobloch had...More
Jakarta's former governor was released from prison on Thursday, nearly two years after his blasphemy conviction fanned fears of religious intolerance in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation...More
Israeli prosecutors on Thursday charged a Jewish 16-year-old with manslaughter after he allegedly threw a stone at a car in the occupied West Bank and killed a Palestinian woman. Prosecutors...More
International rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday that an intensified crackdown on dissent in Egypt made the country "more dangerous" than ever for peaceful critics of the government...More
Turkey has the capacity to create a "safe zone" in Syria on its own but will not exclude the United States, Russia or others if they want to co-operate, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said...More
Tunisian divorcee Latifa counts herself lucky – she has a modest home that boasts a neat vegetable garden, a fig tree and a pomegranate tree, along with a panoramic view of neighbouring farmland. "...More
A Muslim party said it would launch a legal bid to change the name of Bosnia's Serb region, enraging all Serbian parties in the volatile country and prompting calls for calm from the European Union...More
Gaza's dominant Hamas group refused to let Qatar send in $15 million of aid on Thursday, part of a tortuous standoff involving Israel and rival Palestinian factions that has left thousands of civil...More
Mousumi Akter left her home in rural Bangladesh in 2017 and travelled 5,000 kilometres to work as a maid in Jordan to support her struggling family. In less than two years, she was dead. The young...More
A Pakistani activist affiliated with a group that has angered the country's powerful military with its campaign against disappearances was arrested on Monday, an MP said, leading Amnesty...More
Roaring along Baghdad's highways, the "Iraq Bikers" are doing more than showing off their love of outsized motorcycles and black leather: they want their shared enthusiasm to help heal Iraq's deep...More
Iraqi premier Adel Abdel Mahdi visited Basra on Sunday, his first trip as prime minister to the southern province where lagging services spawned a water crisis and deadly protests last summer. Abdel...More
An 80-year-old Muslim cleric imprisoned in Indonesia on terrorism charges should only be released if he pledges allegiance to the state, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday. Last week,...More
Three men and a high school student were charged with plotting to attack a rural upstate New York Muslim community named Islamberg with explosives, authorities said on Tuesday. The Rochester-area...More
Boys played and chatted on a rickety wooden ramp under a baking sun in West Java, while just below their feet flowed one of Indonesia's most horribly polluted rivers, clogged with hundreds of tonnes...More
Thirty-one Rohingya Muslims have been detained in India after a standoff at the country's border with Bangladesh when both sides refused to accept the group, police said on Tuesday. As many as 1,300...More
The United States confirmed on Tuesday that its envoy is meeting in Qatar with the Taliban, seeking to negotiate an end to the Afghanistan war despite a new major attack claimed by the insurgents...More
Bathed in light, musicians belt out melodies among pre-Islamic desert ruins in northwestern Saudi Arabia, a heritage trove at the centre of efforts to put the reclusive kingdom on the tourism map...More
U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to continue seeking a negotiated solution in north-eastern Syria in a phone call on Sunday, the White House said. "The...More
The anti-government protests rocking Sudan for the past month are reminiscent of the Arab Spring uprisings of nearly a decade ago. Demonstrators, many in their 20s and 30s, are trying to remove an...More
Israel's military said it carried out strikes on Iranian targets in Syria early on Monday after it intercepted a rocket fired from Syrian territory hours before. It said in a statement it was "...More
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced a television host to one year in prison for interviewing a gay man last year, a judicial source said. Mohamed al-Gheiti, who has expressed his stance against...More
Asylum seekers from Algeria, Georgia, Morocco and Tunisia would have a harder time claiming the right to remain in Germany under a new law approved in the Bundestag last Friday. The measure was...More
Tunisia's influential General Labour Union (UGTT) has called for a new nationwide strike next month, raising pressure on the government to increase wages. Saturday's call comes two days after...More
Pakistan on Monday launched its first door-to-door campaign of the year to vaccinate millions of children against polio, an official said. "The five-day campaign will target 39.2 million children...More
Germany's Federal Aviation Office (LBA) is to revoke the licence of Iranian airline Mahan Air this week over suspected links to covert operations by the Iranian secret service, local media reported...More
Muslims in the southern Philippines voted on Monday in a referendum on a new autonomous region that seeks to end nearly half a century of unrest, in what their leaders are touting as the best...More
Charred walls, shattered windows, uncooked kebabs still on the counter – the blast that hit U.S. forces at this small restaurant in northern Syria has left residents fearful for the future. Wednesday...More
She is largely unknown in the United States. But the American anchorwoman for Iran's state-run broadcaster, detained last weekend by U.S. authorities, is a familiar face on its English-language...More
The mother of one of the British Islamic State militants suspected of murdering western hostages, lost a legal challenge on Friday that it was wrong for Britain to assist a U.S. investigation which...More
Pakistan swears in a new chief justice on Friday, opening the next chapter for the Supreme Court which has pursued an expansive agenda that has ranged from ousting a prime minister to pressing...More
Bangladesh has banned a film based on a 2016 cafe attack claimed by the Islamic State group that left 22 people dead, saying it would damage the country's reputation. The Film Censor Board denied the...More
The old quarter of Awamiya, a town on Saudi Arabia's oil-producing eastern shore that was once the centre of Shia protests, was levelled in 2017 following a security campaign against gunmen the...More
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, long wanted on genocide and war crimes charges, has rejected calls to step down in the face of mounting anti-regime demonstrations that have challenged his iron-...More
A radical cleric thought to be the spiritual leader of the Bali bombers will be released from prison on medical grounds, Indonesia's president said on Friday. Abu Bakar Bashir, 80, is believed to...More
Thousands gathered on Monday in Tunisia's capital as the country marked eight years since a democratic uprising ousted its long-time strongman. The rally came amid deepening economic troubles in the...More
The presidents of Turkey and Russia will meet in Moscow next week and discuss the U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria, the Turkish presidential spokesman said on Tuesday. Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan...More
Authorities in Mosul have begun demolishing a onetime icon of modern Iraqi architecture used by the Islamic State group to throw men accused of being gay to their deaths. Labourers and bulldozers on...More
The new special UN envoy to Syria began his first trip to Damascus on Tuesday, facing the daunting task of rekindling moribund peace talks and succeeding where his three predecessors failed. Geir...More
Dating back centuries, Algeria's pyramid tombs are unique relics of an ancient era, but a dearth of research has left the Jeddars shrouded in mystery. The 13 monuments, whose square stone bases are...More
A Saudi teen who caused an international sensation by defying her family and seeking asylum abroad on Tuesday vowed to fight for women's freedoms in her first public address since she was taken in by...More
Germany's domestic intelligence agency said on Tuesday that it will step up monitoring for political extremism in the far-right AfD party, a blow to the party in a busy election year. The five-year-...More
A Czech court jailed a 71-year-old man for causing two passenger trains to derail in 2017 and attempting to blame Muslim immigrants, local media reported on Monday. The Central Bohemian court...More
Syria's Kurds on Wednesday rejected a U.S. proposal for a "security zone" under Turkish control along the Syrian side of the two countries' border. Senior political leader Aldar Khalil said the Kurds...More
Anti-corruption campaigners have filed a lawsuit accusing Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi of abuse of power after he pardoned a jailed party official close to his son, a court official said on...More
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in Saudi Arabia for talks on Monday on a range of Middle East crises, topped by the conflicts in Syria and Yemen, threats from Iran and the Saudi response to...More
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi landed Sunday in Amman where he discussed with Jordanian King Abdullah II about regional issues, against the backdrop of the United States seeking to build a...More
A "very, very happy" young Saudi woman who caused a sensation by defying her family and seeking asylum abroad was welcomed with open arms in Toronto on Saturday at the end of a dramatic but...More
Turkey on Monday vowed to continue fighting a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia which it views as a terrorist group after Donald Trump warned of economic devastation if Ankara attacks Kurdish forces as...More
The Western-backed Palestinian Authority is threatening to step up pressure on Hamas amid renewed tensions in Gaza, even as Israel allows a lifeline of Qatari aid to flow directly to the Islamic...More
For more than 10 years, Pascal Mannaerts has been travelling the globe as a freelance photographer. Seeking to do justice to the beauty, elegance and grace of Islamic monuments, he has compiled a selection of his favourite shots taken in Asia, India, Africa and the Middle East.
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"