On Wednesday, Taliban leader Mullah Omar hailed as "legitimate" peace talks aimed at ending Afghanistan's 13-year war, in his first comments on the nascent dialogue, easing concerns that it lacked...More
As many as 100 bodies, presumably of sub-Saharan boat migrants, have washed up near the Libyan city of Tajoura, a Malta-based website on migration issues reported yesterday. The bodies are believed...More
Saudi Arabia has warned Iran not to use its power and cash to interfere in regional affairs after Tehran gets long-awaited sanctions relief. Iran should instead spend its resources on domestic...More
US President Barack Obama will hold a press conference today as he tries to convince Americans, allies and sceptical lawmakers about the benefits of a nuclear deal with Iran. With Congress set to...More
Britain should spend more of its defence budget on spy planes, drones and special forces to counter militants and Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Prime Minister David Cameron will say on Monday. The...More
Malala Yousafzai told world leaders they were failing Syria's children, as the Nobel Peace Prize winner spent her 18th birthday on Sunday on the Syrian border . As she became an adult, the teenager,...More
A stampede during a Ramadan charity handout killed at least 27 people in Bangladesh on Friday as hundreds of desperately poor people tried to get their hands on free clothing, police said. The...More
Even non-fasters suffer in Pakistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which prohibits everyone from eating or drinking in public as a sign of respect for the faithful. On a hot Ramadan day,...More
Maternity trousers that seek to cover Muslim women's private parts during childbirth have been heavily criticised by women's groups in Malaysia, who question their safety during pregnancy and labour...More
Tunisia criticised Britain's decision to urge tourists to leave the country after last month's terrorist attack, saying the damaging of the tourism industry was "what the terrorists want." British...More
Omar Sharif, the Egyptian-born actor who soared to international stardom in two David Lean epics, "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago", has died. He was 83. Sharif's longtime agent, Steve Kenis...More
Saudi Arabia's former foreign minister, Saud al-Faisal, who held the post for 40 years, died on Thursday in the United States, a close source said. He was 75. Al-Faisal died in his house in Los...More
Hundreds of lawyers have registered to defend two women who went on trial in Morocco on Monday accused of "gross indecency" for wearing dresses considered provocative, an activist said. The women...More
Israelis and Palestinians mark one year since last summer's devastating war in the Gaza Strip today, with a ceasefire still largely holding but few of the issues that led to the conflict resolved...More
A Buddhist monastery in Bangladesh is serving food to hundreds of poor Muslims during Ramadan in a rare example of social harmony between the religions in the South Asian nation. Dharmarajika, in the...More
Britons laid flowers at the sites of the 2005 London suicide bombings and held a nationwide minute of silence for the victims yesterday on the tenth anniversary of the 7 July attacks. Four British...More
Morocco said last week that it arrested nine suspects for spreading Islamic State group propaganda and trying to recruit people to join the jihadist organisation. The arrests were carried out in a...More
Kuwait deployed unprecedented security measures around Shia mosques for Friday prayers following a recent deadly bombing, as the emir attended a rare Shia-Sunni joint ceremony in a show of unity...More
A long-running enquiry into the deaths of seven monks beheaded during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s cast doubt on the official version of events on Thursday. The deaths of the monks, kidnapped...More
Girls in stylish athletic wear walk the runway as the sounds of Taylor Swift and Katy Perry blare from speakers. The Minneapolis crowd claps and cheers as the young models strike poses with...More
Writing in the British newspaper "The Daily Telegraph" on Monday, Cameron called for a response to the deadly attack in Tunisia "both home and abroad." "We must be stronger at standing up for our...More
Tour operators have begun pulling out European tourists from Tunisia a day after a gunman killed 39 people at a resort hotel in the city of Sousse. Most of the dead were foreigners, including 15...More
The largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines handed over dozens of assault weapons on Tuesday in a symbolic gesture to reinforce a peace pact stalled by a public outcry over the killings earlier...More
The trial of two men arrested for kissing in public resumed in Morocco on Tuesday, where a string of recent controversies has reignited debate over homosexuality in the conservative Muslim kingdom...More
In California's capital city of Sacramento this month, stark black billboards loomed over highways and faded commercial strips, offering solace to the troubled: "Looking for the answers in life?" one...More
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stressed this week that there was no link between extremism and Islam, as he opened a conference aimed at improving ties with France's large Muslim community. "We...More
The Pakistani government shut down the offices of the international aid group Save the Children in the capital, Islamabad, without giving any reason, officials and the aid group said on Friday...More
Muslims in the Nordic region can expect new guidelines for coping with a sun that never sets ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, a Swedish Muslim association said on Thursday. Ramadan begins...More
The spokesman for Libya's internationally-recognised parliament has rebuffed pressure by the West and the United Nations on lawmakers to accept a peace deal that stipulates power-sharing with rival...More
Moroccan authorities expelled two Amnesty International researchers they said were in the country without permission to study the treatment of migrants and asylum-seekers, the Interior Ministry said...More
A French mother has taken the government to court for failing to stop her teenage son from leaving the country to join jihadists in Syria. The boy, identified only as "B", was 16 when he left with...More
Women in the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh have been banned from entertainment venues like cafes and sports halls after 11 p.m., the latest Islamic regulation in Aceh province. Aceh, alone among...More
European powers on Wednesday urged Libya's warring factions to accept a peace deal within days, warning them that without an accord, the only winners would be Islamist militants who have used the...More
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom accused Saudi Arabia on Tuesday of handing a "medieval" punishment to a blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam. "My opinion is that it's a...More
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reeling from shock election results, on Tuesday accepted the resignation of the cabinet but asked the prime minister and his team to stay on until a new government is...More
Three people were killed on Tuesday, including the leader of an Islamist charity, in clashes between rival Kurdish groups in Diyarbakir, the Interior Ministry said, adding to tensions in Turkey's...More
The head of Mali's main Tuareg-led rebel groups has said that his movement will sign a final peace deal on 20 June to end the conflict in the west African nation. The Coordination of Azawad Movements...More
Morocco expelled two French women activists who bared their breasts and kissed each other outside an ancient mosque on Tuesday in a protest about gay rights in a country where homosexuality is...More
US President Barack Obama has said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's terms for diplomacy that might lead to a Palestinian state meant Israel had lost international credibility as a...More
Egyptian President Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi travels to Berlin on Wednesday, where German leaders are ready to roll out the red carpet for the ex-general despite what monitors describe as his government's...More
Gunmen killed nine Afghan employees of a Czech aid organisation in their beds during an overnight raid in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, one of the deadliest recent attacks on humanitarian workers...More
The UN envoy to Syria condemned regime bombing of civilian areas as "totally unacceptable" after more than 140 people were killed in a day of heavy air raids at the weekend. Across the border in Iraq...More
When Taliban militants stormed a school in Pakistan's northwest last December, killing 150 people, mainly children, in the country's deadliest terror attack, comic book creators Mustafa Hasnain and...More
The winning entry in a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest will not be allowed on ads on Washington's public transportation system, officials have said, angering competition organisers. The cartoon was...More
At least 2,600 people were killed in violence in the 18 months after the military overthrew Egypt's president, Mohammed Morsi, in 2013, nearly half of them supporters of the Islamist leader, the head...More
The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday in favour of a Muslim woman who claimed she was denied a sales job with fashion retailers Abercrombie & Fitch as a teen because of her headscarf. By an eight...More
The leader of France's far right National Front party said on Sunday that a visit to Egypt to meet with the country's religious and political leaders had no effect on her views on Arab and Muslim...More
Palestine unexpectedly dropped its motion to suspend Israel from international football on Friday amid highly-charged scenes at the FIFA Congress. Instead, soccer's governing body agreed to send...More
More than 200 protesters, some armed, berated Islam and the Prophet Muhammad outside an Arizona mosque on Friday in a provocative protest that was denounced by counter-protesters shouting "Go home,...More
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday praised the fight against "extremism" launched by Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who is accused of a bloody crackdown against Islamists. In...More
Indonesia will send more than 230 children from Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya minority to Islamic boarding schools, local television reported this week. The children are part of more than 1,700 boat...More
The armed forces of Libya's recognised government warned on Wednesday that they would react to any aggression against the state, a day after the prime minister escaped an assassination attempt. Libya...More
In the heart of Beirut's manicured downtown, something is stirring in a bullet-pocked concrete shell of a building known as "the Egg": the visually unappealing Egg has advanced to become the meeting place for Lebanese democracy activists. Impressions by Lisa Barrington
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''