"Islamophobia" in parts of the world is fuelling terrorism, the head of the United Nations said on a visit to Saudi Arabia on Sunday, as anti-immigrant sentiment rises in some countries. UN Secretary...More
Swiss voters on Sunday approved a measure to make it easier for third-generation immigrants to become citizens, crushing rightwing nationalists who had stoked fears about granting nationality to more...More
The number of Israeli settlers living in the occupied West Bank surged past 421,000 in 2016, a settler group said on Thursday. The Yesha council said the number of settlers in the territory had grown...More
A Saudi rights activist who tweeted a depiction of Christ's birth on Christmas Day has been freed on bail after one month in prison, a watchdog said on Thursday. A second activist detained around the...More
Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano and his Tunisian counterpart Khemaies Jhinaoui signed a joint declaration on Thursday to fight migrant traffickers in the Mediterranean. "We are working...More
Behind a long sand wall winding through the disputed Western Sahara, leaders battling for the independence of the former Spanish colony say they are on alert. Morocco insists the territory is an...More
On Thursday morning Egyptian police shuttered an organisation that treats victims of torture and trauma, said a prominent psychiatrist who founded the centre, describing it as part of the latest...More
Internationally acclaimed Turkish novelist Asli Erdogan is still haunted by "the shadow of prison" where she spent over four months, fearing it could begin again any time. But the writer insists she...More
A federal appeals court refused on Thursday to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travellers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, unanimously rejecting the administration's claim of...More
A Pakistani activist abducted last month has broken his silence on his weeks-long disappearance, but is refusing to point fingers in a country where criticising extremism or the security...More
Supporters of Germany's anti-Islam movement Pegida disrupted the unveiling of an artwork by a German-Syrian artist on Tuesday in front of Dresden's iconic Frauenkirche church. Around 100 followers of...More
The more Donald Trump tries to build support for his refugee and immigration ban, the darker the world seems to get. In defending his policies barring refugees and curbing immigration, the president...More
Turkey has dismissed more than 4,400 civil servants including teachers, police officers and academics over their suspected links with terrorist organisations, a decree showed late on Tuesday, in the...More
Smugglers have brought tens of thousands of migrants into Yemen despite the civil war that has raged in the country over the past two years, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported on Tuesday in...More
A German court has ordered a German-Turkish author to pay a fine of 11,700 euros ($12,490) for incitement over a speech he gave at an anti-Islam rally. The German news agency dpa reported on Tuesday...More
The United Nations have gathered evidence that Myanmar's security forces have committed mass rapes and killed young children in their crackdown on the Rohingya minority, according to a UN report that...More
A tiny liberal arts college in Massachusetts has created a refugee scholarship in response to President Donald Trump's order on immigration and refugees and is calling on other colleges to do the...More
Yasmin Aara, a mother of two, sits beside a remote hillside road in the jungle of south-eastern Bangladesh. She and six other women clad in black burkas are begging, but they receive little from...More
Indonesia is moving to rein in a notorious Islamic hardline group which spearheaded protests against Jakarta's Christian governor, but experts warn it will be tough to bring to heel a network with...More
Several hundred people braved snow and cold Sunday in Quebec City to honour the six men shot to death a week earlier while praying at a local mosque. "No to Islamophobia, Yes to Peace," "Open Your...More
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen vowed on Sunday that she would be a president who puts France first as she formally launched a campaign echoing many of the themes that propelled Donald Trump to the...More
Egypt's top Islamic authority on Sunday rejected President Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi's suggestion that legislation be adopted to invalidate the practice of Muslim men verbally divorcing their wives. It...More
The Quebec City mosque shooting was a brutal blow to Canada's multicultural, open and tolerant society, revealing cracks in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says is the nation's biggest strength...More
Around Utica, it's not unusual to see tables full of Bosnians sipping strong coffee in cafes, Muslim women in hijabs shopping at grocery stores and Somalis raised in equatorial heat heading to work...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to ensure full freedom of expression in Turkey, ahead of a crucial referendum on constitutional change. Making...More
A Myanmar Buddhist monk known for scathing anti-Islam tirades has been barred from speaking at an event after the murder of a top Muslim lawyer, a killing that has rattled a nation bristling with...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday rebuked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for using the expression "Islamist terrorism", saying the phrase was not correct and saddened Muslims...More
Italy's Muslim community signed a pact with the government Wednesday pledging to "reject all forms of violence and terrorism", with prayers in mosques to be held in Italian. "It's a very important...More
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico unveiled a special police unit to fight extremism on Wednesday, warning about the rise of fascism in Europe and Slovakia. The 125-strong unit will investigate...More
For Alexander Gauland, deputy leader of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party, Trump is "a path-finder, by proving that with political will you can change polices." "It makes it easier for...More
For Alexander Gauland, deputy leader of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party, Trump is "a path-finder, by proving that with political will you can change polices." "It makes it easier for...More
Two actors on a darkened stage, playing an erudite Muslim father and his beloved daughter who has left home to join the Islamic State jihadists, read the heartrending letters they have exchanged. "...More
A Tunisian man arrested in Germany on Wednesday on suspicion of recruiting for the Islamic State group is also accused of involvement in the deadly 2015 attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis, German...More
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump should be more specific about his proposal to set up safe zones in Syria and said attempts to implement a...More
Rightist protesters scuffled with Israeli police carrying out a court order to evict settlers from an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, hours after the government announced more...More
Syria's main opposition body said on Wednesday it would be "unacceptable" for the United Nations to choose opposition delegates to the next round of peace talks in Geneva planned for this month. The...More
The Vatican said on Wednesday it was "worried" about U.S. President Donald Trump's moves on immigration, in the Holy See's first comment since his executive order banning travel into the United...More
Six people died and eight were injured after gunmen opened fire at a Quebec City mosque, a shooting that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Monday as a "terrorist attack." Police...More
Entry curbs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries are proof of America's "hatred towards Muslims", sympathisers of Islamist militant groups said...More
Several world leaders and governments have hit out at the immigration restrictions imposed by US President Donald Trump. Here are some of the top reactions: Downing Street said on Sunday Prime...More
The sun had just risen when the head of St. John's Church across the street from the White House broke from his standard practice of avoiding politics and spoke passionately against sweeping new...More
Peace talks with Syrian rebels and the war-torn country's government got off to a rocky start Monday, while Washington said President Donald Trump was open to joint operations with Russia against...More
The Pentagon on Monday denied that it had co-ordinated air strikes with Russia in Syria, after Russia's defence ministry said the United States had provided co-ordinates for Islamic State militants...More
Iraqi officials said on Monday government forces had taken complete control of eastern Mosul, 100 days after the start of their US-backed campaign to dislodge Islamic State militants from the city...More
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak called on Myanmar on Thursday to stop all discrimination and attacks on Rohingya Muslims and urged the world's Islamic countries to act to end an unfolding "...More
French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen will lead a European gathering of right-wing populist parties in Germany on Saturday in a show of strength ahead of crucial elections across the region this...More
Families and supporters of five missing Pakistani activists on Wednesday denounced what they called a campaign to accuse the men of blasphemy, a highly charged allegation that could endanger their...More
The head of one of Morocco's biggest Sufi orders, with tens of thousands of followers at home and abroad, died on Wednesday aged 95, an official and local media said. Sheikh Sidi Hamza al-Qadiri al-...More
Indonesian police on Wednesday said they were investigating whether the controversial leader of a hardline Islamist group insulted the country's secular state ideology, as concern grows over the...More
Muslims in the United States who were rounded up and detained in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks took their case before the US Supreme Court on Wednesday. The US high court...More
Donald Trump's all-but-dismissal of human rights as a foreign policy principle could hit like an earthquake across a Middle East landscape beset by warring factions and beleaguered governments, with...More
A Turkish prosecutor is seeking up to 142 years behind bars for Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the third-largest party in parliament, the state-...More
Behind a suffocating political system and inquisitive cliches, Iranian youth dream of a break with the system while proudly defending their culture. By Gwenvaël Engel
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''