Clad in camouflage and armed only with their convictions, the paramilitary wing of Indonesia's biggest Muslim organisation is on a campaign -- to crush intolerance and defend the nation's inclusive...
A right-wing group protesting Islamic law, or Sharia, on Saturday clashed with counterdemonstrators in Seattle, Minneapolis and other cities. ACT for America organized the marches in more than two...
The Ashti camp in Iraq's northern city of Arbil on Saturday celebrated the return of a girl whose abduction by jihadists three years ago sent shockwaves through her Christian community. Joy filled...
An Algerian man who attacked a policeman with a hammer outside Notre Dame cathedral was a loner with a deep interest in Islamic State jihadist propaganda, the Paris prosecutor said Saturday. The...
The Member of Parliament for the Bongo Constituency, Edward Bawa, has donated food items to Muslims in the constituency as they observe Ramadan, a period of fasting in Islam. The food items...
Syrian pro-government forces now hold more than a fifth of the country's strategic desert, the army said Saturday, after reaching the eastern border with Iraq for the first time since 2015. The...
The media have consistently, for far too long, maintained shallow, hollow and horrific reportage on the terror perpetrated by miscreants who claim to be fighting for the sake of Islam. The...
During Ramadan, followers of Islam have no choice than to change their eating habits. They have to abstain from food from dawn to dusk. It can take time for the body to adjust to this new routine....
Iran's supreme leader hit out at the United States and Saudi Arabia during the funerals Friday for those slain in the first attacks in the country claimed by the Islamic State group. The assault by...
Qatar on Friday dismissed as "baseless" a terrorism blacklist published by Saudi Arabia and its allies which linked individuals and organisations in Doha to support for Islamist militant groups. The...
Smoke rises from buildings in the al-Meshleb neighbourhood of Raqa as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made up of an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, try to advance further into the Islamic...
Despite defeats in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group has reorganized and is now "more focused than ever" on attacking Europe and other areas outside that conflict zone, a senior UN official...
Turkey is keen to support its close ally Qatar in a diplomatic crisis with Doha's Gulf neighbours, but has found itself with little room to manoeuvre given its ties with Riyadh, analysts say. "This...
The five men who carried out twin attacks in Tehran were Iranians who joined the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria before returning last summer, the intelligence ministry said Thursday. "The five...
Afghan authorities warned anti-government protesters of legal action Thursday as demonstrators set up new sit-in camps around Kabul, raising security alarm after a week of deadly bombings and street...
Iran denounced Donald Trump's reaction to deadly Islamic State group attacks in Tehran as "repugnant" on Thursday after the US president warned the nation is reaping what it sows. Thirteen people...
Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle, has appealed to the Muslim community to use the holy month of Ramadan to pray for the peace for the nation. He said peace,...
A small community of blind students in Malaysia is attempting to learn the entire Quran, a formidable task that requires them to read each page of the holy text up to 40 times. It may be the fasting...
An Australian Islamic council has called for taxpayer-funded "safe spaces" so young Muslims can express "inflammatory" views without fear in a move slammed Thursday as troubling and wrong. News of...
The Pentagon denied Wednesday that large numbers of civilians were killed in a March strike by a Syrian mosque, acknowledging only one possible civilian death at an adjoining religious compound. The...
