The head of a powerful religious body said on Thursday he is willing to review Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws that critics say are regularly misused and have led to the deaths of hundreds, to decide...More
A month after it was agreed in Morocco, a U.N.-backed plan for a united Libyan government is struggling to take off. Efforts to push the hard-fought compromise through show the enduring regional...More
Syria's long-awaited peace talks, set to start Friday in Geneva, have been thrown in doubt as a Saudi-based opposition group appears hesistant to attend. The United Nations has said that the...More
The imam of Cedar Rapids, Iowa has long considered explaining Islam as his mission. But when Republicans start ruminating over jihad and US presidential hopeful Donald Trump, Hassan Selim would...More
On Tuesday an Egyptian court jailed a female writer for three years for insulting Islam after she criticised the slaughter of animals during a major religious festival, a judicial official said...More
A centre for 125 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) asylum seekers is set to open in Berlin in March. There are an estimated 3,500 LGBT asylum seekers in Berlin, many experiencing abuse in...More
Indonesian extremist groups received international financing from Australia and Syria, the country's security minister said Monday, adding to fears that jihadists are targeting the world's most...More
An Australian man arrested in an anti-terrorism sting allegedly possessed bomb-making instructions and an al-Qaida document detailing how to carry out a terrorist attack, police said on Tuesday...More
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Sunday vowed to maintain "order" in northern Calais, a day after dozens of migrants boarded a ferry triggering the temporary closure of the key port. "...More
Democracy needs time to grow, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said in a televised address on Sunday, ahead of the anniversary of the country's 2011 uprising. "Democratic experiences do not...More
Kenyans are donating to the family of a Muslim man who was fatally wounded by Islamic extremists while shielding Christians during an attack on a bus. On Twitter the hashtag HeroSalah has been...More
Tunisia will impose a night-time curfew across the country on Friday following violent protests against unemployment. The curfew will start at 8 pm (1900 GMT) on Friday until 5 am, the Interior...More
Online retailer Amazon has pledged to donate its share of revenues from the sale of a song by the anti-Islam group PEGIDA to refugees, undermining the cause of the far-right movement. PEGIDA's song "...More
The United Nations said Thursday that crucial talks on ending the Syria conflict would likely be delayed by a few days, as a dispute over who will represent the opposition intensified. The talks,...More
The Organisation of Islamic Co-operation on Thursday condemned the attacks on Saudi missions in Iran earlier this month and denounced Tehran's regional "interference". In a joint statement, foreign...More
The Afghan reporters recognised the voice threatening them with death on the Islamic State group's local radio station. It was a former colleague, who knows their names and where they work. The...More
Three New York Muslims and a Sikh have filed an $11 million federal lawsuit demanding a jury trial for being kicked off a flight home from Canada because of their appearance. The US citizens of South...More
Three faces from afar – a man in a headdress and a veiled girl and woman – greet patrons at a Yemeni restaurant in the US city of Hamtramck, gazing into the distance from a mural outside the eatery...More
A Danish town has made it mandatory for public institutions to serve pork, drawing mixed reactions in what has been dubbed the Nordic country's "meatball war". The town council of Randers in central...More
Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano on Tuesday established a council for relations with the country's Muslims, an advisory body the government hopes will help the minority to better integrate...More
Britain launches a new website on Tuesday which aims to educate Muslim teenagers against groups like Islamic State, as the government backed the right of schools to ban girls from wearing veils. The...More
Kurdish forces have bulldozed, blown up and burned down thousands of Arab homes across northern Iraq in what may constitute a war crime, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said in a report...More
Moroccan photographer Leila Alaoui, who was among those injured during the Ouagadougou terrorist attack last Friday night, has died, diplomatic sources in Burkina Faso announced earlier today. A...More
Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian university outside of Chicago, said on Tuesday it was taking steps to fire a tenured political science professor after she wrote in a Facebook post that...More
In a bus taking them to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – site of the US Civil War's most famous battle – the members of Boy Scout Troop 114 are all ears. "Listen up during the trip! This is a rewarding...More
Officially, there's been no death toll from two days of clashes between Nigerian troops and a Shia Muslim group in the northern city of Zaria last month. But talk on the ground is of 300, 400, 600 or...More
British Prime Minister David Cameron Monday said more needs to be done to help Muslim women learn English to tackle discrimination and gender segregation in their communities. Writing in The Times...More
The Gambia reversed a new law Thursday forcing female civil servants to cover their hair, insisting that women were the president's "best friends" and should not be upset by government decisions. A...More
It has been six months since the Australian government closed the detention centre school and forced child asylum seekers into Nauruan schools, where classes are taught in the Nauruan language and...More
Anti-Muslim rhetoric on the US campaign trail is "fodder" for extremist propaganda, the State Department warned Monday, after Donald Trump demanded a block on Muslim immigration. The State Department...More
Heavily armed fighters from the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab attacked a base for African Union peacekeepers in south-western Somalia on Friday, blasting their way into the compound and...More
Army trucks thundered through Indonesia's capital Friday as authorities boosted security at possible terror targets and probed the suspected Islamic State cell blamed for Jakarta's deadly militant...More
Canada prepared on Tuesday to welcome its 10,000th Syrian refugee since November and resettlement workers said the heavy influx has gone smoothly despite a shortage of housing in Toronto and a pepper...More
Ministers in the cabinet of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday proposed making it easier to deport foreign residents and asylum seekers who commit crimes. The initiative comes after a series...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel described Tuesday's suicide attack in Istanbul in which 10 people died, eight of them Germans, as a "murderous act." "The terrorists are enemies of all free people,...More
Aid groups pressed on with talks to evacuate hundreds of people, many starving, from a besieged Syrian town, as the UN warned more would die unless blockades are lifted. Elsewhere in Syria, forces...More
Saudi Arabia′s deputy crown prince and its defence minister, Muhammad bin Salman, asserted on Monday in interview with the Economist that ″whoever is pushing toward direct war is somebody who is not...More
Opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are facing international pressure to make concessions that would prolong the country's conflict, prominent rebel groups said on Friday, underscoring...More
Female motorbike taxi drivers in headscarves zigzag through heavy traffic in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, the latest two-wheeled transport service for women making a dent in the male-dominated...More
The Vatican's newspaper on Tuesday criticised French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo for a front cover portraying God as a gun-wielding terrorist to mark the first anniversary of a terror attack on the...More
Indonesian authorities are working with their counterparts in China to stem a flow of ethnic Uighur militants seeking to join Islamist jihadists in the world's most populous Muslim country, Indonesia...More
Bangladesh's highest court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for the leader of the country's largest Islamist party for crimes during its 1971 independence struggle, paving the way for his...More
Islamic State threatened to destroy Saudi Arabian prisons holding jihadists after Riyadh's execution of 47 people including 43 convicted al-Qaida militants. The militant group, which has claimed...More
A civilian was killed and an 8-year-old child injured when gunmen opened fire on police in the hometown of executed Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi police said on Monday. The incident occurred as...More
The United States on Sunday responded to Saudi Arabia's decision to cut diplomatic ties with Iran by encouraging diplomatic engagement and calling for leaders throughout the region to take "...More
The Islamic State group threatened Britain in an Internet video Sunday showing the killing of five "spies" it said worked with the international coalition fighting IS in Iraq and Syria. The SITE...More
More than 200 people in Istanbul have protested peacefully against curfews and operations in mainly Kurdish cities and towns in southeastern Turkey, where security forces and Kurdish militants are...More
Syrian insurgent group Jaysh al Islam on Monday welcomed Saudi Arabia's rupture of ties with Iran, saying Tehran's backing of Shia militias was destabilising the Middle East and stoking sectarian...More
From 2016, Germany will reintroduce individual assessments for refugees seeking asylum. Syrians, Iraqis and Eritreans had been subject to a simpler procedure in recent months. From the beginning of...More
A suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday inside a restaurant in central Mogadishu not far from the presidential palace, killing at least four people – including the attacker – according to...More
An oft-violated truce in Yemen is no longer in effect as of Saturday, said the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-allied rebels there. The fragile ceasefire has been repeatedly breached by warring...More
Iraq's top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has condemned the execution of Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia, calling it "unjust aggression". "We have received with much sorrow and...More
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