The United Nations envoy for Syria on Tuesday said a solution to the eight-year-long conflict begins with confidence building measures and reconciliation between warring parties. "Path to a new Syria...More
Iran's many woes briefly went up in smoke as Iranians observed a nearly 4,000-year-old Persian tradition known as the Festival of Fire. The celebration is held on the last Tuesday night before Nowruz...More
Egypt's top media regulator put into effect tighter restrictions on Tuesday that allow the state to block websites and even social media accounts with over 5,000 followers if they are deemed a threat...More
Tens of thousands of students again took to the streets of the Algerian capital on Tuesday, just hours after long-time leader President Abdelaziz Bouteflika confirmed he plans to stay in power after...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said this week that the deadly New Zealand attack on two mosques was part of a broader operation targeting Turkey. Erdogan, campaigning for local elections this...More
Iran's Hassan Rouhani met Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in Iraq's Najaf last week, a press photographer reported, in the first encounter between an Iranian president and the country's chief Shia cleric...More
Grieving families of 50 worshippers killed in the Christchurch mosque attacks are anxious to bury their loved ones according to Islamic custom. Graves are being dug in a local cemetery, but under-...More
Iran's communication minister has picked another fight with the country's hardliners over Internet censorship. "Some are of the opinion that you should break off contact to the outside world for...More
A Syrian migrant faces charges in a German court in the city of Dresden on Monday for the stabbing of a German man, whose death prompted anti-migrant protests in the eastern city of Chemnitz and...More
A Malaysian citizen was given more than 10 years in jail for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad on social media, police said on Saturday, one of the country's harshest such sentences in recent...More
Egyptian activists and journalists have been targeted by phishing attacks coinciding with political events in an intensifying crackdown on dissent since the start of the year, Amnesty International...More
For rights activist Sion Assidon, a Moroccan of Jewish descent who also describes himself as Berber and Arab, Zionism breeds anti-Semitism in today's Arab world but aversion to Israel's policies is...More
Turkey cannot accept control of a planned safe zone in northern Syria being given to anyone else, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. In interview with broadcaster Kanal 24, Erdogan also said...More
Iran hopes to have its part of a new payments vehicle – devised to allow it to trade with EU firms despite U.S. sanctions – ready within a fortnight, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on...More
With presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for the fall, public officials in Tunisia plan to send mobile teams to villages, universities and companies to encourage people to vote. Nabil...More
Germany is considering adding at most 10 countries to a list of so-called safe countries of origin, a policy meaning that asylum seekers from those countries have little chance of avoiding...More
A state of emergency imposed across Sudan is restricting public freedoms, a minister said on Wednesday, as lawmakers discussed the measure imposed by President Omar al-Bashir to quell anti-government...More
Angry crowds evacuating from the last shred of territory held by Islamic State militants in Syria praised the extremist group on Wednesday and chanted "Islamic State will remain", in a menacing show...More
On a sloped, cobblestone street in southern Albania sits a small shop, empty except for a dozen framed panels on the walls bearing photos and stories from 500 years of Jewish life. It may be modest...More
An activist group says a prominent human rights lawyer in Iran who defended women protesting against the Islamic Republic's mandatory headscarf, or hijab, has been convicted and faces years in prison...More
The United Nations investigator on religious freedom said on Tuesday he has asked China to let him visit its Xinjiang region where some 1 million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims are in facilities...More
Pakistan said on Tuesday it had begun a crackdown on Islamist militant groups, detaining 44 members of banned groups including close relatives of the leader of a group blamed for a deadly bombing in...More
Iraqi authorities are prosecuting children suspected of ties to the Islamic State group in a "deeply flawed" process, using flimsy accusations or confessions obtained through torture, Human Rights...More
Senior Catholic clergy in Morocco called on Tuesday for freedom of conscience and respect for migrants' rights, ahead of a visit by Pope Francis later this month. The pontiff is due to visit the...More
The Muslim foundation which runs the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, the Waqf, said on Tuesday that it will defy an Israeli court order barring access to part of the flashpoint holy site. There...More
They grew up in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia and can place Israel on a map, but many young refugees in Sweden have never heard of the Holocaust. Their first contact with Jewish history in Europe is...More
European Union countries on Monday added Syria's interior minister and six other new ministers to a sanctions blacklist for their role in President Bashar al-Assad's "violent repression" of civilians...More
Award-winning Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid was released on Monday after spending nearly six years in prison following his arrest while covering a bloody crackdown on protests. The...More
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's offer of a new constitution and a truncated next term does not appear to have satisfied protesters, who faced off with riot police overnight. Crowds of...More
Leading House Democrats will offer a resolution on Wednesday condemning anti-Semitism in response to Ilhan Omar's latest remarks on Israel, a senior Democratic aide said. The declaration, written by...More
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has slammed opposition parties for demanding evidence about last week's military strike inside Pakistan and support for him is rising, pollsters say, despite the...More
The Handelsblatt business daily argues that Germany should heed the calls of the United States and Kurdish militias fighting Islamic State in Syria and accept back captured German members of the...More
Yaakov Baruch is the rabbi at Indonesia's only synagogue, but he keeps his religious identity under wraps, like most of the tiny Jewish community living in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation...More
The U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, which serves Palestinians, was absorbed into the new U.S. Embassy to Israel on Monday, the State Department said, a merger that has angered Palestinian leadership...More
The grand imam of Egypt's famed Al-Azhar institution, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, has described polygamy as an "injustice" for women. "Polygamy is often an injustice to women and children," said the...More
Several top European politicians backed Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel on Thursday after he told Arab leaders he was gay and could be condemned to death in some of their countries,...More
Macky Sall has been re-elected president of Senegal for a second term, according to provisional results published on Thursday. Figures released by the National Vote Counting Commission (CNRV) showed...More
Singing in Arabic, an Israeli musician is winning over listeners from Tel Aviv to Baghdad, covering tunes by his grandfather and great uncle, an Iraqi Jewish duo who were once two of the Arab world's...More
The new United Nations envoy for Syria proposed on Thursday that major powers create a common international forum to move the war-battered country toward peace. Geir Pedersen, who took up his post in...More
The United States on Thursday offered a $1 million reward for information on a son of late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, seeing him as an emerging face of extremism. The location of Hamza bin...More
A Belgian court's decision to overturn a ruling forcing it to repatriate two Belgian women convicted of being Islamic State militants and their six children from Syria has left their family...More
Bangladesh told the UN Security Council on Thursday that it will no longer be able to take in refugees from Myanmar. Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told a council meeting that the crisis over the...More
Indian military officials said on Thursday they welcomed Pakistan's planned return of a captured pilot, but refused to confirm they would de-escalate a conflict between the two nuclear powers. The...More
Eight years after fleeing war in Somalia, Ifrah Ahmed returned to her ravaged homeland with a mission – to end the "silent killer" of female genital mutilation. Somalia has the world's highest rate...More
Dramatic mobile phone footage, first-hand accounts on social media and other digital content, often made by protesters dodging censorship, have helped immortalise Tunisia's 2011 revolution in a new...More
Amnesty International urged Morocco on Tuesday to "immediately" free a newspaper publisher sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of rape and other offences, after a trial his lawyers say was...More
U.S. senators said on Monday that a Trump administration briefing had not changed opinions on the need to push back at Saudi Arabia over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and its conduct in...More
By pledging to try 13 French Islamic State group fighters, Iraq has assumed the role of judge and jailor for the suspected jihadists – thereby saving Paris the controversy of repatriating them...More
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani flattered and praised Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday in a bid to keep the top diplomat in office following his shock resignation. Zarif announced...More
Thousands of children displaced from the Islamic State group's last redoubt in north-eastern Syria show signs of psychological distress, a British charity said on Wednesday. Save the Children...More
New Delhi sought to ease soaring tensions with an infuriated Islamabad on Wednesday after carrying out an airstrike on Pakistan's territory, as the U.S. urged the nuclear-armed neighbours to "...More
Lebanon's Foreign Minister Jubran Bassil said Monday that the British government's decision to add the political wing of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah to its list of banned terrorist...More
Countless cultural assets have been destroyed by the Syrian Civil War. The Syrian Heritage Archive Project in Berlin contributes to preserving their memory with an exhibition showing what has been lost — and what remains. By Christina Kufner
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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"