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
"It is our greatest duty today to correct the image of Islam in world public opinion," Rouhani told the audience at a conference in Tehran on Sunday. Referring to atrocities committed by the terror...More
Pakistan's Taliban have rejected Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's claim to be the global leader of all Muslims, the movement said in a statement seen by Reuters on Saturday. The Pakistani...More
Tourism in the Biblical city of Bethlehem is down this Christmas season compared to last year and hotels are more than half empty, Mayor Vera Baboun said. "Bethlehem is empty this year," she told...More
Israeli anti-racism activists have called for an investigation after a Jewish extremist leader urged a ban on Christmas celebrations in the country and called Christians "vampires". Benzi Gopstein,...More
Leyla Shakuri shakes multicoloured hundreds-and-thousands over the biscuits, taking care to dsitribute them evenly. "I want to know everything about your Christmas," the 16-year-old Afghan girl with...More
Some of them, if Francis is heeded, should be heading to safety among the roughly 120,000 Catholic parishes in Europe. But in Italy – which with more than 25,000 has the largest number of parishes –...More
On Sunday the Arab League welcomed a UN-backed roadmap to end the Syrian war and vowed to support international efforts to implement a ceasefire. The resolution, approved unanimously by the UN...More
To its foes, Qatar's deal-making with armed groups is reckless grandstanding that helps destabilise the Middle East. To its friends, the network of Islamist contacts Doha has built in the process may...More
Pakistani officials were Wednesday formulating a response over the country's inclusion in a 34-nation list announced by Saudi Arabia which largely comprises Muslim-majority states. "Our response to...More
Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger jailed and lashed for allegedly insulting Islam on an internet forum he created to boost public debate, was honoured Wednesday by the European Parliament with its top...More
Photographs of thousands of people who reportedly died in government detention centres in Syria present "damning evidence" of crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. The rights...More
Saudi Arabia has formed a 34-member alliance "to fight terrorism" which largely comprises Muslim-majority states but excludes regional rival Iran and several countries facing ongoing violence. The...More
A Texas plumber whose truck ended up in the hands of militants in Syria is suing the dealership he sold it to, after a photo of the pickup with a flaming anti-aircraft gun in the bed and his logo on...More
Indonesia's largest Muslim organisation is launching a media offensive against terrorism, with a documentary on the country's "harmonious" Islamic past. Speaking to a traditional Javanese soundtrack...More
Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai condemned Donald Trump's views on Muslims on Tuesday at a sombre ceremony to remember the 134 children killed in a Taliban attack on a Pakistani school a year ago...More
From war-torn Syria to a windswept island off the west coast of Scotland, nine newly-arrived refugee families are struggling to adjust to new lives in a very unfamiliar world. "It's hard. We don't...More
A Melbourne teen arrested after police found explosives at his home pleaded guilty on Monday to a terrorism-related charge, highlighting concerns about youth radicalisation following last week's...More
Prominent Palestinian musicians say recruiting minority ethnic and religious Arab groups into the army is part of Israel’s divide-and-conquer tactics, pushing young Palestinians to "side with the...More
Following the massacre of 136 school children one year ago, Pakistani politicians backed a military campaign to hunt down Taliban insurgents after years of confusion over whether the country should...More
Sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility Sunday for a bomb blast that killed 23 people at a crowded bazaar in a predominantly Shia area of Pakistan's north-western tribal...More
Egypt's best-selling author Alaa Al Aswany said Sunday that authorities have pressurised a cultural centre into cancelling an event where he was scheduled to talk about how the government manipulates...More
A religious school in Pakistan distanced itself from former student Tashfeen Malik, who together with her husband allegedly killed 14 people in southern California last week before they were shot...More
Three months after a heartbreaking photo kickstarted a crowd-funding campaign, life has improved for Abdul Halim Atar, the refugee and single father in Beirut who resorted to selling pens to provide...More
More than 35,000 Britons have signed an online petition to ban U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from the country following his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United...More
Dubai-based Landmark Group, one of the Middle East's largest retail firms, said it was pulling Donald Trump products off its shelves in response to the Republican presidential front-runner's call for...More
France's mainstream political parties were scrambling for a way to stop the rise of the far-right National Front (FN) on Monday after it emerged with an historic first-round lead in regional...More
The stabbing of a man in the London metro in what police described as a terrorist attack provoked a defiant riposte from a bystander that has struck a chord in Britain: "You ain't no Muslim, bruv"...More
A conference bringing together dozens of figures from Syria's political and armed opposition will be held next week in Riyadh, opposition members told journalists on Friday. According to Samir Nashar...More
Confusion surrounded the fate of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who was shot in a firefight during an argument with commanders of the divided movement, after an Afghan government spokesman...More
In a small studio in central Beirut, more than a dozen refugee women from Syria dash about barefoot as they rehearse a play about their experiences as war migrants. "We get to a new country .....More
On Saturday an official demonstration by Alternative Für Deutschland, a populist right-wing group which in recent weeks has fomented prejudice and suspicion against the refugees pouring into Germany...More
A German court Tuesday sentenced a Pakistan-born couple to life in jail for the "honour killing" of their 19-year-old daughter, who had had sex before marriage. The 52-year-old father was found...More
The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of democracy and freedom that has greeted countless immigrants to US shores, was inspired by a project representing an Arab woman guarding the Suez Canal, researchers...More
An Egyptian journalist and researcher on the turbulent Sinai Peninsula was ordered to remain in detention for 15 days by prosecutors on Tuesday, two days after he was arrested upon his return from...More
Thousands of protesters gathered in central London on Tuesday in an effort to stop Britain joining air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, a day before a parliamentary vote on the move. A...More
Israel will for the first time ever open an official – and visible – presence in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, in the coming weeks, Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon...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"