Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday defended Britain's decision not to participate in a binding European system of quotas to resettle refugees as the proposals were unveiled in Brussels. EU...More
Iran's nuclear deal with six world powers can be the basis for a new era of co-operation with Austria, the European Union and the world, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday as his Austrian...More
More than 1,000 Muslim clerics in India have ratified a religious ruling condemning the Islamic State, calling the extremist group's actions "un-Islamic". Religious leaders from hundreds of Islamic...More
The fear-tinged portrayal of Islam in literature and the media has become "obsessional″, controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq said in an interview published on Sunday by British newspaper...More
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned on Thursday that the wave of refugees and migrants coming to Europe and the EU's "failed immigration policy" threaten to undermine the continent's...More
Saudi Arabia's top cleric hit out at Iranian film "Muhammad" on Wednesday, describing its portrayal of the prophet's childhood as a "hostile act" and a "distortion" of Islam. Iran's most expensive...More
The UN Security Council on Wednesday called on Lebanon's parliament to elect a new president to help ease a political crisis that has fuelled street protests. The appeal came after Lebanese lawmakers...More
The Gaza Strip, ravaged by wars and nearly a decade of a gruelling Israeli blockade, could become uninhabitable for residents within just five years, the United Nations development agency said this...More
More than 10,000 Icelanders said on Facebook on Monday that they were ready to welcome Syrian refugees into their homes after the government said it would only let in a handful. An Icelandic author...More
An Egyptian muezzin has been suspended by the authorities after being accused of intoning "Prayer is better than Facebook" in his early morning call for people to pray. The action was taken against...More
Iran's most expensive movie, "Muhammad", which chronicles the childhood of the Muslim Prophet, opened nationwide last week, winning praise from early audiences. Directed by Majid Majidi, the 171-...More
Academics have criticised the British government for creating a "climate of fear" after the national library declined to store the world's biggest collection of Taliban-related documents over...More
Muslim militant leaders in talks with Thai authorities to end a deadly insurgency said last week that they are seeking an independent state and are ready to negotiate a solution. Six insurgent groups...More
For the first time in the history of Turkey, a Muslim but secular country, a woman who wears an Islamic headscarf has been named as a government minister. Aysen Gurcan, a 52-year-old academic, was...More
Iran has barred famed conductor Daniel Barenboim from entering the Islamic republic because of his Israeli citizenship, thwarting his plan to lead a performance in Tehran, media reported on Sunday...More
Palmyra, the ancient Syrian city that has fallen to the Islamic State jihadist group, has withstood the last 2,000 years with its immaculate temples and colonnaded streets. Listed as a UNESCO world...More
King Abdullah of Jordan told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that Moscow had a vital role to play bringing together rival sides in Syria to seek a solution to a war that has killed a...More
Major League Baseball legend Curt Schilling was suspended by broadcaster ESPN on Tuesday after triggering uproar with a tweet that compared "extremist" Muslims to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime...More
Malaysian Muslim religious authorities acted illegally when they raided a bookstore in May 2012 to confiscate copies of a book they deemed against Islamic law, the country's highest court ruled on...More
A Hamas military court in the Gaza Strip sentenced a Palestinian to death on Monday for allegedly providing information to Israel said to have led to Palestinians being killed, judicial sources said...More
About 100 Germans have died fighting with Islamic State forces in Iraq and Syria since 2012, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told the "Bild am Sonntag" newspaper in comments published on...More
Islamic State militants have destroyed a temple in the ancient ruins of Palmyra, a Syrian government official and an opposition monitoring group said on Monday. The Baalshamin temple, one of the best...More
The exiled head of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, said in a video that was posted on Friday on an Arab website that "positive contacts" have been made towards securing a...More
Malaysian security forces discovered 24 bodies of suspected trafficked Bangladeshi and Rohingya migrants in graves in a village near the Thai border, a state police chief has said. Shafie Ismail,...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government spoke out on Monday against violent protests against asylum seekers in the eastern German town of Heidenau over the weekend. "The chancellor and the...More
Former Defence Minister Ehud Barak's comments that Israel nearly attacked Iran's nuclear facilities but that the plan was scuttled by military men and cowardly politicians could shake up Israeli...More
A group of Islamic experts has urged the world's 1.6 billion Muslims to do more to fight global warming, in a new example of religious efforts to galvanise action before a UN climate summit in Paris...More
More than 90 per cent of Muslim women surveyed in India want the "triple talaq" divorce ritual and polygamy banned from family civil law in the country, a study by a women's rights organisation said...More
Islamic State forces have destroyed an historic monastery in central Syria, where the extremist militia has consolidated its presence in recent weeks, a monitoring group said on Friday. The militants...More
Jeremy Corbyn, a left-winger touted to head Britain's main opposition Labour party, said on Friday that he would apologise over the Iraq war if he wins next month's leadership contest. Under the then...More
Turkey's Foreign Ministry accused the BBC on Friday of supporting terrorism because of a piece the British broadcaster ran on militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The BBC piece focused...More
The US has said that it is very concerned over recent Saudi-led airstrikes on the city of Hodeida in Yemen, noting the port's important role as a "lifeline" for humanitarian relief. A statement from...More
More than 300 American rabbis wrote to members of Congress on Monday urging them to support the international nuclear deal with Iran, signalling the US Jewish community is split over the historic but...More
Top Muslim clerics gathered in Egypt on Monday to address extremist religious edicts in the face of an unprecedented threat from Islamic State group jihadists who have declared a "caliphate". The...More
Libya's internationally recognised prime minister, Abdullah al-Thani, has withdrawn an offer to resign, a move which would have added to the chaos in the conflict-strewn country, his spokesman said...More
Claims that Nigeria's Boko Haram has been "decapitated" have been spectacularly rebuffed by the jihadists' leader, yet his first broadcast in months may not see off an impending mutiny, say analysts...More
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has signed into law a new anti-terrorism bill, state media reported on Monday, a text that has prompted criticism from rights groups and even some senior...More
The UN's Syria envoy, Staffan de Mistura, on Monday condemned as "unacceptable" the weekend bombings at a rebel-held town outside Damascus that killed nearly 100 people. "The government's bombing of...More
Jihadists have killed a village imam in central Mali who had refused their repeated attempts to recruit him, a local official told AFP on Friday. Gunmen with suspected links to radical Islamic...More
A Moroccan court sentenced two men to four months in jail late last week for beating up a presumed homosexual because of his appearance, a rights group said. The verdict was delivered by a court in...More
Bangladesh is to hold a census of hundreds of thousands of undocumented Rohingya who have crossed into the country seeking refuge from persecution in neighbouring Myanmar. Foreign Secretary Shahidul...More
The infant mortality rate in Gaza has risen for the first time in more than half a century, according to the United Nations, raising concerns about the impact of the Israeli blockade on health...More
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said earlier this week that the terrorist organisation Islamic State gained power because Syrian President Bashar al-Assad targeted his own citizens with deadly force...More
A year after tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians fled communities overtaken by Islamic State militants, their lives are on hold in exile: they won't go back to Iraq, saying it's not safe for...More
A French court will rule this week on the decision by a right-wing mayor to ban non-pork meals in schools for Muslims and Jews, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Mayor Gilles Platret announced in March...More
The television station of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group says its leader has discussed attempts to find a resolution to Syria's civil war with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Zarif...More
The prime minister of Libya's internationally recognised government, Abdullah al-Thani, announced his resignation in a surprise move live on television on Tuesday, hours after fraught peace talks...More
Hundreds of Egyptian tax collectors rallied this week against a new law seeking to reform the country's mammoth civil service, calling it unfair and unconstitutional in one of the largest anti-...More
Secular activists expressed outrage on Monday after Bangladesh's national police chief warned bloggers that they faced jail for posting material deemed offensive following last week's machete murder...More
A west African regional force set up to fight Boko Haram will need "local intelligence" to root out Islamic insurgents forced on the run by national army offensives, security experts say. "With Boko...More
The body in charge of Roman Catholic properties in the Holy Land has called for legal action against a Jewish extremist group and its leader after he condoned burning churches. "The danger and...More
Only empty desert three years ago, the Middle East's largest camp for Syrian civil war refugees has grown from a town of tents into a bustling city. The United Nations-administered camp plans water...More
With fighting around Damascus having ceased, everyday life is slowly returning to the Syrian capital. While the people there enjoy a touch of normality, life in the immediate surroundings could hardly be more different. By Rahel Klein and Marko Djurica
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"