"I'm very afraid, will there be more wars? Will America attack Muslim countries again?" asked Indonesian activist Alijah Diete, as Muslims reeled on Wednesday from Donald Trump's shock US...More
The exiled former editor-in-chief of Turkish opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet said Tuesday he wants journalists targeted in Turkey's post-coup government crackdown to help him with a new media venture...More
European condemnation of the crackdown in Turkey that followed the attempted coup in July has come too late, with the country now "burning", Can Dundar, the former editor of a leading opposition...More
The 77-year-old former defence minister chosen to head France's new Foundation for Islam in France on Monday called on conservative Muslims to try harder to integrate into society. The appointment of...More
Pilgrims must walk through three rooms, a foyer and a 200-metre-long corridor before accessing the dimly-lit chamber where Usman dan Fodio and two of his sons are buried in Sokoto, northern Nigeria...More
Euphoric Donald Trump supporters transformed into a sea of "Make America Great Again" hats, shouting "USA" and partying late into the night as the billionaire appeared within reach of victory...More
German public broadcaster ARD came under fire on Monday for allowing a woman wearing a full-face veil to argue on a current affairs talkshow that disillusioned youths could view war-torn Syria as the...More
On Sunday a Kurdish militant group that has carried out a string of attacks in Turkey this year claimed a bombing on the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir that killed 11. The claim by the Kurdistan...More
Northern Nigeria has become the latest battleground in the proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, after violent clashes between supporters of rival groups from the two main branches of Islam...More
A year since the Paris massacres, the gritty district in Brussels that was the launch pad for the attacks is still struggling to shed its reputation as a jihadist hotbed. Molenbeek, a largely...More
UN climate talks began in Marrakesh on Monday, for the first such conference since a sweeping accord to keep global temperatures rises below 2 degrees Celsius was adopted in Paris last year. The...More
On Sunday Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party said it was pulling out of parliament after nine of its MPs including the two co-leaders were arrested in an unprecedented crackdown. The Peoples' Democratic...More
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has postponed a trip to Australia due to start on Sunday after violence broke out at a mass rally against a Christian governor accused of insulting Islam, the...More
Britain must handle asylum seekers on its own territory rather than leave that to France, conservative candidates for France's presidential election said in a TV debate, highlighting that Franco-...More
On Friday French authorities started clearing a migrant tent camp on the streets of Paris, local broadcaster BFMTV said. The camp, situated north of the city centre near the Stalingrad metro station...More
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticised both Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump in a speech he gave on Wednesday marking the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. In...More
Fuel prices were to rise dramatically in Egypt on Friday after the central bank floated the currency to address a dollar crunch that has threatened to cause some imports to grind to a halt. The oil...More
Iraqi forces deployed around the eastern entrance to Mosul on Thursday, preparing for a push into the city which Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi urged his fighters to defend. In the...More
A Russia-declared unilateral ceasefire is to take hold in Syria's Aleppo on Friday even as rebels stepped up a week-old assault to break a government siege of the city's eastern districts. Regime...More
Turkey detained two co-leaders and nine other lawmakers of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) early on Friday over reluctance to give testimony for crimes linked to "terrorist...More
On Thursday Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Germany of being one of the world's worst countries for harbouring "terrorists", saying Berlin had not responded to requests to hand over...More
Where you sleep. Whether your children go to school. When you can shop. The rhythm of bombardment dictates life in the besieged Syrian town of Douma, much of it spent underground. The rebel-held town...More
Aid workers are bracing for a long-feared exodus of civilians from jihadist-held Mosul after Iraqi forces said they had entered the city, a relief group said on Wednesday. Thousands of people have...More
The Saudi head of the world's largest pan-Islamic body, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, resigned on Monday, an OIC statement said, days after infuriating Egypt over remarks in which he...More
Olympic medallist Louis Smith was given a two-month ban by British Gymnastics on Tuesday for appearing to mock Islam. Online footage that appeared last month showed Smith, 27 and former gymnast Luke...More
Friday prayers at the People's Mosque in Cape Town looks like any other around the Islamic world, except in this South African city the imam is openly gay and the teaching promotes homosexual rights...More
An angry mob vandalised at least five Hindu temples and attacked property in Bangladesh after an alleged Facebook post mocking one of Islam's holiest sites, police and residents said Monday. Scores...More
Every decade when the United States counts its population, residents with roots in the Middle East and North Africa check boxes they may feel do not apply: "white," "black" or "other race." But for...More
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned about the need to stop the spread of "terrorist regimes," during talks on Saturday with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on the Syrian conflict. "For...More
A Turkish court has ordered the detention of the two mayors of Diyarbakir, the largest city in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of the country, accusing them of "terrorist" activities linked to...More
Although Tunisia's tourism industry seems to be going through an unending chill, Mohamed Ben Sheikh is convinced there are good days ahead thanks to the nation's vineyards. Standing on a hillside on...More
Yemen's Houthi rebels said on Sunday that a new UN peace plan was a "basis for discussion" despite containing "fundamental flaws". The plan to end the country's 19-month-old war is "a basis for...More
On Sunday UN peace envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura strongly condemned deadly rocket attacks by rebels targeting civilian areas in western Aleppo. "Credible reports... indicate that scores of...More
A rare TV interview with Egypt's former chief auditor, who went on trial after publicly alleging massive government corruption, has been banned. Hesham Genena, whom Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-...More
Turkish police detained the editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, state media reported on Monday, while CNN Turk said 13 arrest warrants were issued for journalists and executives...More
Thousands of outraged Moroccans held protests in several cities on Sunday after a fishmonger in the northern town of Al-Hoceima was crushed to death inside a garbage truck as he tried to retrieve...More
A handful of faithful gathered in a burnt-out church on Sunday for the first mass to be celebrated in two years in Qaraqosh, which was once Iraq's main Christian town. Iraqi forces retook Qaraqosh...More
A pair of Yazidi women's advocates have been awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The 50,000-euro prize for human rights has been handed out since 1988. Iraqis...More
Turkey has handed over to the U.S. Justice Department further documents to back its request for the extradition of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara accuses of orchestrating a...More
Hani Salam escaped civil war in Syria and survived the journey from Egypt to Europe. But when he saw men with bushy long beards at a mosque near his current home in Cologne last November, he was...More
Russia denied any involvement in deadly airstrikes on a Syrian school and rejected a UN-led investigation showing its ally Damascus had carried out chemical attacks, as Moscow's relations with the...More
Yemen's Houthi militia launched a ballistic missile toward Mecca on Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition intervening in Yemen's civil war said on Saudi state news agency SPA. Coalition forces destroyed...More
Rohingya Muslims say Myanmar soldiers raped or sexually assaulted dozens of women in a remote village in the northwest of the country during the biggest upsurge in violence against the persecuted...More
The emaciated frame of 18-year-old Saida Ahmad Baghili lies on a hospital bed in the red sea port city of Hodaida, her suffering stark evidence of the malnutrition spread by Yemen's 19-month civil...More
Russia said on Tuesday it would extend a moratorium on airstrikes on Syria's Aleppo into a ninth day, but a monitor and a civil defence official said that rebel-held parts of the divided city had...More
Gambia has announced its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, accusing the Hague-based tribunal of the "persecution and humiliation of people of colour, especially Africans". The...More
American airstrikes in Afghanistan this year have already significantly surpassed the total number conducted in 2015, a stark indicator of the United States' struggle to extricate itself from the...More
The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants has not taken enough precautions to avoid civilian casualties in Syria and has underestimated the impact of its operations on civilians,...More
Iraqi forces were inching to within striking distance of eastern Mosul on Tuesday as coalition defence chiefs gathered in Paris agreed to also take on the jihadists' Syrian bastion of Raqqa. With the...More
Qatar′s former emir, Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani died on Sunday, aged 84, Qatar′s state news agency QNA reported. He ruled Qatar from 1972 until 1995 when he was deposed in a bloodless palace...More
The battle for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensified on Sunday with air strikes, ground offensives and shelling, the morning after a resurgence in fighting ended a Russian...More
When seven hours of non-stop rain led to a flash flood that swept through his village school, leaving it heavily damaged, science teacher Ali Zamin Samejo had to be hospitalised for shock. "I passed...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''