Papua New Guinea's prime minister says it will close its asylum seeker detention centre after the island nation's Supreme Court ruled that Australia's detention of the men there is illegal. Peter O'...More
Over 300 people, including nine journalists, were estimated to be in custody in Egypt on Tuesday after security forces foiled attempted demonstrations the previous day, according to information from...More
Australia's detention of asylum-seekers on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island is unconstitutional and illegal, a court ruled on Tuesday, prompting some refugee advocates to call for the camp to be shut...More
Israeli police ejected nine Jews on Tuesday from the flashpoint Al-Aqsa compound in east Jerusalem for flouting the site's rules and briefly detained two Palestinians who attacked Jewish visitors...More
Pressure was mounting in Bangladesh on Tuesday after two leading gay rights activists were hacked to death, the latest in a series of chilling attacks on intellectuals, writers and religious...More
On the site of a long-idle dairy farm, leaders of a local mosque hope to build a final resting place for about 500 Muslim families – to the dismay of many residents of this quaint town in central...More
Turkish police fired tear gas on Tuesday to break up protests over a call for the country to adopt a religious constitution that has sparked concerns of creeping Islamisation in the traditionally...More
Ahmadiyya Muslims say they′re thankful to Anzac diggers for helping create an Australia that honours and upholds the freedom and rights of its people. Dozens of members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim...More
Israel freed 12-year-old Palestinian Dima al-Wawi from prison on Sunday, more than two months after jailing her for an attempted stabbing attack. She received a warm welcome in her West Bank town...More
Egypt's Journalists' Syndicate condemned a wave of arrests ahead of protests planned for Monday against the handover of two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. "The nation as a whole will pay...More
Egyptian mother Aaz Menhom cups her hands under a running tap in her yard to let her young children Atef and Nada drink. "It's a blessing from God. I was bathing them once every four days, now they...More
After weeks stranded at a closed border in northern Greece, migrants and refugees are seeking out new, irregular routes to get into Macedonia, clambering through forests and over hills under the...More
The Jordanian government says security forces mistakenly raided the headquarters of the kingdom's largest Muslim Brotherhood group after confusing it with the offices of an outlawed organisation...More
The U.N. special envoy for Syria said there was "real but modest" progress in the country's humanitarian situation despite a stumbling ceasefire, as one of the largest international aid convoys made...More
Queen Elizabeth II received a royal 90th birthday cake Thursday from a baker who won millions of fans on Britain's most beloved baking competition. Nadiya Hussain presented the monarch with a three-...More
A Swedish Green Party politician, who ignited a storm of controversy after refusing to shake hands with a female reporter on grounds that it violated his Muslim faith, announced on Wednesday that he...More
Students at an elite Paris university sparked fierce debate on Wednesday by inviting classmates to wear the Muslim veil for a day in a bid to "demystify" a practice that is highly divisive in France...More
Amnesty International on Friday accused Nigeria's military of deliberately shooting dead more than 350 Shia Muslims, burying them in mass graves and destroying evidence of the crime. The rights group...More
Switzerland has suspended the citizenship process for the family of two teenage Muslim brothers after the boys' refusal to shake hands with their female teachers sparked a national debate over...More
Police in Iran's capital have a network of 7,000 undercover agents whose job is to inform police of alleged moral transgressors in the Islamic republic, a top official said on Monday. Bad veiling –...More
Talks between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia on this year's hajj pilgrimage have stalled because of a disagreement on how visas can be processed when no formal diplomatic relations exist. An...More
A leader of German Muslims on Monday likened the attitude of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party towards his community to that of Hitler's Nazis towards Jews. The AfD entered...More
The Saudi Arabian government has threatened to sell of hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of American assets should the U.S. Congress pass a bill that could hold the kingdom responsible for any...More
Saudi Arabia has stripped its frequently criticised religious police of their powers to arrest, urging them to act "kindly and gently" in enforcing Islamic rules. Under changes approved by the Saudi...More
Idaho State University's president said on Thursday he had been in talks with Saudi and Kuwaiti education officials seeking to allay concerns about students from those countries facing anti-Muslim...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on Friday wrapping up a two-day summit of leaders from the world's Muslim countries aimed at narrowing bitter sectarian divisions over crises including the...More
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) said on Sunday Islam is not compatible with the German constitution and vowed to press for bans on minarets and burqas at its party congress in two...More
A bearded imam may have seemed out of place at this week's In-Cosmetics expo in Paris, an annual showcase for the world's leading beauty and personal care products. But Shaikh Ali Achcar's presence...More
After Israel's war against Gaza militants in 2014, Arab countries led the way in pledging reconstruction aid to the devastated seaside enclave. But a new report released on Monday by the World Bank...More
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi hit back on Wednesday at criticism of a deal to hand Saudi Arabia two islands and of the probe into an Italian student's murder, saying "evil" people were conspiring...More
Governments around the world are cracking down on basic freedoms, the United States warned on Wednesday, in a report that did not spare key US allies like Turkey and Egypt. Secretary of State John...More
A video appearing to show some of Nigeria's kidnapped Chibok girls is being aired along with images of tearful parents recognising their daughters, who have not been heard from since the mass...More
France is to reopen its cultural centre in the Gaza Strip, which closed down 18 months ago over security concerns, the French foreign ministry said on Wednesday. "Activities will resume gradually,"...More
Ergueibi Abdelahi was just nine months old when his aunt scooped him up and fled fighting in Western Sahara after Morocco sent troops into the former Spanish colony, leaving his parents and brother...More
Six Syrian actors with stories to tell are huddled in a small vessel headed for Europe on a "Love Boat" journey to escape the conflict that has ravaged their homeland. The vessel, a prop mounted on a...More
The Islamic State group's ranks have been pared back by international and local military action in Iraq and Syria to their lowest level since Washington began monitoring the group, a senior official...More
A new round of peace talks to end Syria's five-year civil war is set to begin in Geneva on Wednesday, as a surge in violence in northern Aleppo province threatened a fragile truce. The United Nations...More
Malaysia′s first Islamic-compliant airline has been suspended for three months after it failed to adhere to aviation regulations, a senior official said on Monday, as the government announced a...More
A Bangladesh branch of al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) on Friday claimed responsibility for the murder of a secular activist after he criticised Islamists on social media, a US monitoring...More
The world′s Islamic countries began their annual meeting on Sunday in Istanbul, where they are set to focus on the Palestinian cause, conflicts in member states and combating terrorism. The meeting...More
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has filed a complaint against a comedian who recited a satirical poem about him on German national television, German prosecutors said in a statement. The public...More
Ex-Soviet Tajikistan is planning to install metal detectors and surveillance cameras in more than 70 mosques in the capital Dushanbe over government fears of extremist attacks. A government source...More
From young start-ups to business giants, British entrepreneurs are eyeing a rapidly expanding global market for Muslim consumers with a range of brands from clothes to greetings cards to online gym...More
Trevor Phillips, who was the chairman of the Equality and Human rights Commission between 2003 and 2012, told the Policy Exchange think tank ″it was disrespectful to suppose that Muslim communities...More
A Swiss legal expert will decide on the validity of a controversial ruling that allows male Muslim students to avoid shaking hands with female teachers for religious reasons, an official said on...More
Prime Minister Manuel Valls said extreme forms of Islam were winning the propaganda war for hearts and minds, warning the veil was being used as a political symbol for the "enslavement of women"...More
A day after Greece deported hundreds of migrants to Turkey under an EU deal meant to discourage others from making the same perilous journey to Europe, anger was simmering on Greek islands and asylum...More
Tackling extremism is a political minefield in Pakistan, where politicians openly consort with leaders of banned militant groups and sympathy exists within the security forces and civil...More
The United States and Iran have formed an unlikely tacit alliance behind Iraq's prime minister as he challenges the ruling elite with plans for a non-political cabinet to fight corruption undermining...More
"Daddy, where are you now? In Turkey or Sweden?" a Syrian girl asks her father in her first voice message to him since he joined hundreds of thousands fleeing the war. The recording, sent by...More
A Saudi-based 57-member Muslim body on Sunday demanded Armenia's "unconditional" withdrawal from the Nagorny Karabakh region after clashes with Azerbaijani troops left 30 soldiers dead. The...More
Beneath a majestic Ottoman dome, waving Turkish flags outside their brand new mosque, a group of US Muslims – the faithful and the curious – jostled Saturday to welcome a president. Hailing the...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"