The practice of female genital mutilation has fallen dramatically in northern Iraq, campaigners said Monday as they urged religious leaders to use sermons and...
Two actors on a darkened stage – an erudite Muslim father and his beloved daughter who has left home to join Daesh (ISIS) fighters – read the heartrending...
The students at Al-Noor Academy, a Muslim school outside Boston, bombarded their government class speaker with questions: How do you start a political...
A counterpropaganda program aimed at thwarting Daesh (ISIS) recruiting over social media is plagued by incompetence, cronyism and skewed data, an AP...
On any given day at MacDill Air Force Base, web crawlers scour social media for potential recruits to ISIS. Then, in a high-stakes operation to counter the...
Syria’s White Helmets rescue workers said Tuesday they were “proud” that a documentary film about their work saving civilians in their country’s devastating...
The Great Mosque of Aleppo, a centuries-old treasure at the heart of one of the world’s oldest cities, is today a grim testament to the ravages of Syria’s war.
The head of one of Morocco's biggest Sufi orders, with tens of thousands of followers at home and abroad, died Wednesday aged 95, an official and local media...
Alone in her room at an overcrowded retirement home in Damascus, Naz Ashiti thumbs through photographs of her daughters overseas, her eyes lingering on...
Iraqi forces battling Daesh (ISIS) in Mosul Monday retook an area where the militants leveled one of the city’s most well-known shrines in 2014, officials said.
The prince leading Saudi Arabia’s drive for economic reform has laid out a three-pronged strategy to avoid a backlash from religious conservatives opposed to...
Austria's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration Sebastian Kurz said Friday he wanted to ban public servants, including school teachers, from wearing...
A smartphone application enabling women to report incidents of harassment to police in Pakistan's Punjab province went live this week as authorities step up...
A Saudi television channel apologized Wednesday after a reality show in the strict Islamic kingdom featured a scene that critics denounced as "pornographic."
Jakarta's Christian governor Tuesday shouted at an Islamic hard-liner testifying against him in dramatic scenes at his blasphemy trial, seen as a test of...
The fate of a hunger-striking activist imprisoned in Iran has sparked a rare unauthorized protest near the prison where he's being held.
An imprisoned Iranian human rights activist ended a 71-day hunger strike Tuesday as his detained wife won a temporary release from prison, a day after his...
Boko Haram's leader is urging his fighters to "kill, slaughter and abduct ... and detonate bombs everywhere," in a new video that denies Nigerian government...
An Indonesian court Tuesday refused to drop blasphemy charges against the Christian governor of the capital Jakarta, as hundreds of people protested outside...