Three resorts in France were poised on Tuesday to join three other seaside towns in banning the burkini, the full-body Islamic swimming garment that has sparked concern about religious extremism...More
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ignored the facts with his assertion that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy had resulted in a huge increase in crime, a German...More
An Iranian activist who was arrested while holidaying in Italy because Tehran had issued an international arrest warrant for him was released on Thursday, his organisation said. Mehdi Khosravi, 37,...More
On Saturday, the Philippines restarted peace talks with the country's largest Muslim rebel group, the first under President Rodrigo Duterte aimed at ending decades of violence that has claimed tens...More
Nigeria has shelved a plan to build a $10 million film village outside the mainly Muslim northern city of Kano, bowing to virulent opposition from radical Muslim clerics. The decision deals a blow to...More
The French resort of Cannes won court backing for its "burkini ban" on Saturday as a judge refused to overturn its decision to forbid Muslim women from wearing the full-body swimsuit. Local...More
An imam and his assistant were both shot in the head and killed in New York on Saturday, police said, in a brazen attack carried out in broad daylight with unclear motives. Gunshots rang out just...More
In 2014, entrepreneurs and small-business owners with foreign backgrounds created some 1.3 million jobs in Germany, according to a new report released last Thursday. The study, published by the...More
The U.S. drone strike that killed Islamic State's commander for Afghanistan and Pakistan was the latest blow to the Middle East-led movement's ambitions to expand into a region where the long-...More
The mayor of Cannes has banned the wearing of burkinis – full-body swimsuits – on the beaches of the French Riviera resort famous for its annual film festival, officials said on Thursday. Mayor David...More
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim spoke with Palestinian leaders on Thursday in a series of sessions seemingly designed to allay fears as Ankara moves to rebuild ties with Israel. Yildirim's...More
The United States on Thursday tentatively welcomed possible Turkish-Russian cooperation against jihadists in Syria, as Ankara has proposed to Moscow, even if those countries support opposing camps...More
A Myanmar court has fined two Pakistani nationals and ordered them to leave the country after finding them guilty of breaching their visa conditions by preaching at mosques. Amed Zulfiqar, 63 and his...More
Sexual minorities are under attack in Indonesia and President Joko Widodo's silence has raised questions about his stated commitment to diversity, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. Anti-gay...More
British Prime Minister Theresa May raised concerns on Tuesday with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani over several cases involving dual British-Iranian nationals, including imprisoned aid worker Nazanin...More
A Muslim flight attendant has sued ExpressJet, accusing the airline of wrongly suspending her because she refused to serve alcohol to passengers. The Council on American-Islamic Relations' Michigan...More
An Afghan official says troops are being deployed to a key southern city in Helmand province amid intense fighting with the Taliban and fears it could fall to the insurgents within days. Kareem Atal...More
Pakistan's lawyers boycotted courts and staged protests nationwide on Tuesday after a horrific suicide bombing at a Quetta hospital which killed 72 people, including many of their colleagues. Monday'...More
A Marseille waterpark has cancelled plans to host a private event for Muslim women wearing burkinis – full-body swimsuits – after they sparked outrage in secular France, authorities and the park said...More
Thousands of leaked reports detailing allegations of sexual assault, child abuse and self-harm in Australian immigration facilities on Nauru were published on Wednesday, prompting rights groups to...More
President Tayyip Erdogan told a rally of more than one million people on Sunday that July's failed coup would be a milestone in building a stronger Turkey, defying Western criticism of mass purges...More
Tunisia's former development minister Youssef Chahed, nominated to be the struggling country's new prime minister, has pledged that his government will combat terrorism and corruption. Last Wednesday...More
Egypt's former grand Mufti Ali Gomaa voiced defiance against religious extremism after surviving unharmed an assassination attempt in Cairo on Friday. "If Ali Gomaa dies, there will be thousands, no...More
A relative of one of the jihadist killers of journalists at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been arrested in Bulgaria after trying to get to Syria, a judicial source said on Sunday...More
Donald Trump's characterisation of Somalis as dangerous and a drag on resources could undo years of work that they have done to establish themselves in the country's whitest state, Somali residents...More
A Syrian rebel alliance on Sunday announced the start of a battle to recapture the whole of Aleppo, the day after they broke a government siege on rebel-held areas in the country's second city. The "...More
Ankara's downing of a Russian war plane over the Syrian border last November prompted rapid retaliation from Moscow and a bitter war of words between presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip...More
Saudi Arabia's top clerical body has revived a 2001 religious edict prohibiting Pokemon in response to public calls for guidance on the newly launched smartphone version of the game. The augmented-...More
Low global oil prices have hurt Nigeria's economy, taking it to the brink of recession. But the resulting cash crunch has also had a more unexpected effect – on mass weddings. More than 10,000 women...More
Libya's UN-backed government criticised the presence of French troops in the chaos-wracked country on Wednesday, as President Francois Hollande confirmed France has soldiers there after three died...More
Turkey woke up to its first full day under a state of emergency on Thursday, imposed by the government the previous night. "Everything is looking normal" in the streets of Istanbul, a resident told...More
Chinese Muslims should promote social harmony and resist illegal religious "infiltration", President Xi Jinping said while visiting a mosque in a heavily-Muslim part of western China, state media...More
At least 56 civilians were killed on Tuesday in airstrikes launched by a US-led coalition near the Islamic State-held northern Syrian city of Minbij, a monitoring group said. The raids hit the...More
Dozens of men were watching a football match at the "Smile" cafe when the blast hit in the street below. Within minutes, a fire ripped through the Baghdad shopping mall where they were gathered,...More
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, whose fate was in the balance as rebel soldiers tried to topple him, has triumphed against his enemies and quickly reasserted his grip on power. But the failed...More
On Tuesday US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen urged Washington to reject Turkey's efforts to extradite him and rejected as "ridiculous" the claim he was behind the past week's coup attempt. "Turkish...More
Afghanistan takes pride in its world-class pistachios, but with looters harvesting the nuts well before maturity fears are growing that the Taliban and local strongmen are depriving the war-battered...More
An official for the top Islamic authority in Egypt has told journalists that the mobile phone reality game Pokemon Go is "prohibited" by Islam. Playing the game is as illicit as drinking alcohol,...More
A court in Bangladesh on Monday formally charged 38 people with murder in connection with the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building which killed 1,135 people in the country's worst industrial...More
Astride his white mare, a wide-brimmed hat shielding his eyes, Ridwan Sururi looks more cowboy than librarian as he winds towards the hilltop village, his horse Luna saddled with books. Their arrival...More
The Turkish government is expected to continue its crack down on suspected putschists on Tuesday, while the US-based Muslim cleric accused by Ankara of orchestrating the coup attempt says he doesn't...More
On Monday Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim cleric and bitter foe of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, dismissed as doomed to fail Ankara's bid to extradite him from the United States over a failed...More
Middle East states and leading Muslim clerics united on Friday in condemning a truck attack that killed at least 84 revellers in the French resort of Nice, calling for a joint struggle against...More
Turkey widened a crackdown on suspected supporters of a failed military coup on Sunday, taking the number of people rounded up in the armed forces and judiciary to 6,000 and the government said it...More
President Barack Obama strongly condemned what he called a "repugnant" proposal by a top Republican to test every Muslim living in the United States and deport whoever believes in Sharia law,...More
Bangladesh on Friday moved to regulate weekly sermons in hundreds of thousands of mosques as part of a stepped-up campaign to combat Islamist extremism, officials said. The move comes after the...More
Iraqi security forces warned people to stay away from a major protest planned for Friday, saying the demonstration is "unauthorised". In a statement issued on the eve of the planned demonstration,...More
Top US diplomat John Kerry met Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Thursday to offer him closer military co-operation in the hope of salvaging the stalled Syria peace process. Ahead of the meeting,...More
World leaders are expressing dismay, sadness and solidarity with France over the attack carried out by a man who drove truck into crowds of people celebrating France's national day in Nice, killing...More
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is responding to Thursday night's truck attack in France by arguing for the expulsion from the U.S. of any Muslim who believes in Sharia law. Gingrich is being...More
Israel's parliament has adopted a law seen as targeting left-wing groups critical of the government by forcing NGOs that receive most of their funding from foreign states to declare it. The new law...More
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended his plan to give Syrian refugees Turkish citizenship in comments published on Monday, arguing the country has ample space after a backlash against the...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''