Muslim clerics in ex-Soviet Tajikistan have advised workers building what will become the world's tallest hydroelectric dam not to observe Ramadan, echoing comments from the country's secular...More
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly criticised Hezbollah for operating as the most heavily armed militia and a political party in Lebanon and urged the militant group to halt military...More
The Palestinian foreign minister on Tuesday called on the International Criminal Court "to open an immediate investigation" into war crimes and apartheid against the Palestinian people. Riyad al-...More
Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone resigned from Britain's Labour Party on Monday, two years after he was suspended over allegations of anti-Semitism – an issue that continues to roil the left-of-...More
A Danish government minister has asserted that Muslims shouldn't work during Ramadan because the month-long fasting period poses safety hazards in some professions and makes the practice "dangerous...More
Syrian government forces raised their flag over the Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus on Tuesday as state media promoted what it said was the "liberation" of the last quarters of the capital from...More
Arab states resoundingly condemned the killing of more than 50 Palestinians in this week's Gaza protests, just as they have after previous Israeli violence going back decades – but behind the scenes...More
Day after day, Omir Bekali and other detainees in far western China's new indoctrination camps had to disavow their Islamic beliefs, criticise themselves and their loved ones and give thanks to the...More
When Cho Nwe Soe went to a Yangon court last month with her husband, she expected he would be fined for organising prayers in the street without a permit last year and that they could go back home to...More
A growing number of migrants are carving a new Balkan route through Bosnia to reach the European Union raising fears of a humanitarian and security crisis in the impoverished country. In the tourist...More
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday pardoned more than 330 young people, most of whom had been convicted and jailed for their participation in illegal protests. Egypt's president has...More
The 12-year-old Rohingya refugee dreamed of Ramadan back in his own village – fish to break the day's fast, gifts from his family and relaxing beneath the trees before evening prayers at the mosque...More
The United States slapped sanctions on Valiollah Seif, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran, on Tuesday accusing him of helping the country's Revolutionary Guard Corps transfer millions of...More
Belgium on Tuesday demanded a UN inquiry into the violence in Gaza and summoned Israel's ambassador to the foreign ministry after she described all the Palestinian victims as "terrorists". Prime...More
Germany's Catholic Bishops' Conference called on Tuesday for mutual respect between religious groups in Germany ahead of the start of Ramadan. "There should be nowhere at all where human dignity is...More
Her fingers bleed from beneath the nail beds, but sitting at her workstation, filing Yemeni gemstones on a spinning wheel, Safaa al-Faqih is at peace in a country for too long at war. In green canvas...More
Populist Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr eyed a governing coalition on Tuesday after dealing a blow to both Iranian and U.S. influence with a shock election triumph that upended Iraqi politics. With the...More
Talks on Syria spearheaded by Russia in Astana failed to edge the seven-year conflict closer to a political settlement on Tuesday and cast the future of diplomatic efforts to end the crisis into...More
In the Turkish city of Gaziantep, home to around half a million Syrians who fled the civil war south of the border, hundreds of Syrian businesses are thriving in a boost both for the displaced...More
Israel has warned Gaza residents they will be risking their lives if they approach the border during a planned mass protest. The army says in the leaflets dropped by jets on Monday that it will "act...More
Muslim scholars from three countries issued an edict last Friday saying that violent extremism and terrorism, including suicide attacks, are against Islamic principles, in an effort to convince the...More
Iran on Sunday gave the European Union 60 days to guarantee the continued implementation of the nuclear deal after the U.S. decision to leave. Tehran set the deadline at a meeting attended by Abbas...More
Kosovo launched Friday a programme aimed at de-radicalising its jailed jihadists, including lectures in prisons by moderate imams. More than 90 percent of Kosovo's 1.8 million inhabitants are Muslims...More
The U.S. moves its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem later on Monday after months of global outcry, Palestinian anger and exuberant praise from Israelis over President Donald Trump's decision tossing...More
The coalition of influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has taken an early lead in Iraq's national elections in partial returns announced by the Iraqi electoral commission. An alliance of candidates...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin have reaffirmed their support for the Iran nuclear agreement despite the U.S. exit, the Kremlin said on Friday. The 2015 deal...More
First-time director A.B. Shawky said on Thursday that piecing together financing for a feel-good road movie about an Egyptian leper and his orphan friend nicknamed Obama was the least of his troubles...More
campaign Hundreds of Gaza residents are gathering near the border with Israel for a seventh weekly protest aimed at shaking off a decade-old blockade of their territory. Friday's protest comes just...More
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Friday urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to expel Iranian forces from his country, after Israeli air strikes hit alleged Iranian targets in Syria. "...More
Taliban fighters attacked Afghan bases in the western province of Farah, killing more than 30 police, officials said on Friday, as the insurgents stepped up their offensive in a region with vital...More
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will host a meeting with the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany on Tuesday in Brussels to discuss the Iran nuclear deal after U.S. President...More
An order from a Nigerian traditional ruler forbidding women from being in public during a festival this week has sparked a lively debate over gender in the economic capital Lagos. Oba Kabiru Adewale...More
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging animmediate halt t o "all hostile acts" to avoid "a new conflagration"in the Middle East after Israeli forces bombed Iranian targets inside Syria...More
Millions of Egyptians struggling to cope with economic hardship caused by austerity measures will get some relief during the coming Muslim holy month of Ramadan, as charities offer food aid to needy...More
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to Moscow on Wednesday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would pull out of the...More
France's foreign minister said on Wednesday that the 2015 nuclear restraint deal with Iran was "not dead" despite Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out from the agreement, and added...More
More than a million Turks piled onto social media to call time on President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, making the word "Tamam" ("Enough") a trending topic worldwide after he promised to step down if...More
U.S. President Donald Trump is not fit for his job, the speaker of Iran's parliament said on Wednesday, in Tehran's most personal criticism since Trump's decision to withdraw from a 2015 nuclear pact...More
Malaysians began voting on Wednesday in what is likely to be the country's closest-fought general election, with Prime Minister Najib Razak's coalition pitted against a resurgent opposition steered...More
The United Arab Emirates, facing criticism from top Yemeni allies over its presence on the island of Socotra, said Sunday its role on the strategic Yemeni territory had been "distorted". The UAE is...More
The Iran-backed Shia group Hezbollah and its political allies won more than half the seats in Lebanon's first parliamentary election in nine years, according to unofficial preliminary results cited...More
Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party claimed victory late on Sunday in the country's first free municipal elections, a key step in a democratic transition marred by economic disappointment. After polling...More
Anti-Semitism must not be tolerated in Germany, warned President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday, saying it could destroy the sense of home for those who want to make a life in the country. "...More
Voting Sunday for the first time in her life, the young Shia Muslim woman said she was casting her ballot for the Shia militant Hezbollah group. One of her relatives was killed while fighting Sunni...More
Muharrem Ince, a 54-year-old firebrand lawmaker from Turkey's staunch secularist camp, will be the main opposition's candidate for the presidential election next month, as the party seeks to...More
The European response to Donald Trump's position on the Iran nuclear deal will be more important than what Trump himself decides, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday. "Trump will either...More
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has requested that Muslim nations keep up pressure on Myanmar for the safe and dignified return of Rohingya refugees who fled a violent military crackdown. "...More
Saudi Arabia plans to spend 50 billion riyals ($13.33 billion) by 2020 on an initiative to promote entertainment, health, sports and education as part of a modernising drive by Crown Prince Mohammed...More
Syria's war rages unabated despite a fall in the number of besieged civilians, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday, warning of a potential worsening of the conflict in the rebel-controlled...More
Hungary on Wednesday refused to sign a declaration recognising the advantages of migration, despite its adoption by more than 50 European and African countries at a Morocco conference. Hungarian...More
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday hit out at plans by the main opposition party to bolster Turkey's newest party and enable it to take part in snap presidential and parliamentary elections in...More
Iraqi women running for parliament this month are undaunted, despite many challenges they face ahead of the May 12 elections – including unprecedented smear campaigns complete with sex videos that...More
A trip to the indigenous Mayan heartland of Mexico shows how vital the Muslim community is in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. The southern state of Chiapas is home to hundreds of predominantly indigenous Tzotzil men and women, many of whom have converted to Islam from Catholic or other Christian denominations. By Edgard Garrido
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"