Muslim rights groups in the U.K. have responded with anger to new proposals announced by Prime Minister David Cameron to give extra powers to the country's charities regulatory body.
An estimated 2 million faithful mourners are expected to travel to Iraq for the festival of Ashura, despite ongoing threats from self-proclaimed Islamic State fighters.
Israeli authorities have bowed to pressure from Jewish settlers and ordered a ban on Palestinians from using Israeli-run buses in the West Bank, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Sunday.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday called for close cooperation among countries in the region in campaign against terrorist groups including Daesh Takfiris.
Nigerian Muslims have welcomed the New Hijri year with rallies, prayers and expectations that authorities will ensure justice and fairness for every segment of the society.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has rightly said that the ongoing dispute with Iran on its nuclear program has been politicized and used as a convenient tool at the hands of the West to put pressure on the Islamic Republic, slow down its scientific/technological progress, and contain its influence across the region and beyond.
Deputy Secretary-General of Bahrain's Islamic Action Society (Al-Amal) Sheikh Abdullah Saleh pledged to continue campaign against "the Al-Khalifa's dictatorial rule" until a fair election system is held in the country.
The official spokesperson for the family of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood movement and its Freedom and Justice Party on Saturday mourned in three separate statements the death of 30 Egyptian troops in an attack on a military site in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Friday.
“Unity and solidarity among Muslims lay the ground for them so as to use legal capacities in the world,” said Secretary General of the World Forum for proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thought.
Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani said the country is not afraid of visits by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, but it has a problem with such a visit by Ahmed Shaheed due to various reasons.
Mortar shells fired by foreign-backed Takfiri militants have hit residential areas in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and the northwestern city of Aleppo, killing three people, Press TV reports.
The World Forum for proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thought issued a condolatory message on the demise of the Chairman of Iran’s Assembly of Experts.
A Berlin elementary school has been renamed after a Muslim man who saved a Jewish family during the Nazi’s rule and Second World War (WII), hosting them in his house for years during the Holocaust.
Prominent member of the Bahraini Al-Wafa'a Islamic Party Sheikh Mortada al-Sanadi said the opposition plans to hold a referendum on the regime in the Persian Gulf Island.
In a shocking decision to Marine Le Pen's party, a French far-right councilor has reverted to Islam, sending a video message to officials of the anti-immigration party to praise the Muslims’ holy book, the Qur’an, and asking them to join him.
Thousands of people have fled their homes in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli following a de facto truce between the army and the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorists.