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
When Amit Shah, president of Narendra Modi′s ruling party, meets with the Indian prime minister, he is sometimes asked a question he struggles to answer: "What is behenji thinking?" By "behenji", or...More
French authorities have begun moving thousands of people out of the notorious Calais Jungle, prior to demolishing the camp that has served as a launchpad for attempts to sneak into Britain. Migrants...More
Iraqi forces battled through booby-traps, sniper fire and suicide car bombs on Sunday to tighten the noose around Mosul, while also hunting Islamic State group jihadists behind attacks elsewhere in...More
Dodi Suridi was found guilty on Thursday of committing an act of terror by helping to make a bomb used in the deadly attack on the Indonesian capital earlier this year. The 23-year-old supporter of...More
Moscow has said the ceasefire will enable civilians and rebels to leave the city's besieged eastern areas. The UN hopes to carry out a medical evacuation on Friday but admits "everything can go wrong...More
Donald Trump's grasp of international politics may sometimes be vague, but even he has noticed that there is a fight coming for Mosul. U.S. and Iraqi leaders have been signalling for weeks that a...More
Nine-month-old Amena al-Helou's skin sizzles as the surgeon cauterises an incision in her chest, beginning a heart operation at a south Lebanon hospital to save the Syrian refugee's life. She is just...More
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed suggestions that Moscow should be investigated for potential war crimes in Syria as "political rhetoric." Diplomatic tensions between France and Russia...More
An influential Indian Muslim group on Thursday accused the country's Hindu nationalist prime minister of triggering an "internal war" with plans to introduce a common civil code for all religions...More
President Francois Hollande speaks of "a problem with Islam" in French society, in excerpts published on Wednesday of a book in which he also suggests that immigration needs to be curbed. "There is a...More
A Syrian bomb plot suspect found hanged in his cell had not been deemed an "acute" suicide risk, German officials said on Thursday as outrage grew over the judicial "fiasco". The death in custody...More
Thousands of Iraqi security personnel guarded areas in and around Karbala on Tuesday to protect hundreds of thousands of Shia pilgrims flocking to the shrine city for annual mourning rituals. Shias...More
Female Iranian chess players have hit back at calls by opponents of the country's Islamic dress code for a boycott of February's world championships in Tehran, saying the campaign hurts Iranian women...More
Three Syrians who overwhelmed a fugitive wanted in an alleged Islamic extremist bomb plot and handed him over to police were hailed as heroes in Germany on Tuesday, helping temper anti-migrant...More
On Tuesday The Danish government presented a list of measures to combat radicalisation, including a "corps of digital voices of reason" to challenge extremist views on the Internet. Part of the new...More
Iranian football fans faced a tricky balancing act on Tuesday as they watched their team win against South Korea during a religious holiday in which they were banned from expressing joy. Many took...More
The US Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to consider a lawsuit that accuses former senior government officials of abusive detentions of immigrants rounded up after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks...More
The Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen said on Sunday that it will investigate an air raid that killed more than 140 people at a funeral, after the US said it was reviewing support for the...More
The Obama administration went ahead with a $1.3 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia last year despite warnings from some officials that the United States could be implicated in war crimes for...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged more support to fight against drug and people smuggling from Mali, on the first day of a trip to Africa where she will try to work towards curbing future waves...More
The leaders of Australia's two major political parties have reaffirmed their commitment to racial tolerance in Australia after several senators called for a ban on Muslims. Prime Minister Malcom...More
Morocco's ruling Islamists have beaten their liberal rivals in parliamentary elections five years after sweeping to power following Arab Spring-inspired protests, results showed on Saturday. Prime...More
The newest member of Germany's nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party said on Thursday that Islam was "less of a religion and more of a totalitarian movement," likening it to Nazism...More
The attempted attack on a synagogue in Halle is not the first in recent years. Even after the horrors of the Nazi era, anti-Semitic incidents occur in Germany — on individuals, memorials and Jewish places of worship. By Bettina Baumann
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''