Tag: Islam

Hamas's former chief in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, has been elected overall head of the Palestinian Islamist group, succeeding Khaled Meshaal, ...

The radical Palestinian group Islamic Jihad has rejected Hamas's new policy of easing its stand on Israel and accepting the ...

Several plumes of smoke rise above Iraq's main Christian town Qaraqosh, but this time it isn't the Islamic State jihadist ...

A former radical preacher is the unlikely instigator of a debate on a topic long seen as off-limits in Muslim-majority ...

Nine Chadian soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack on an army post in the Lake Chad region on ...

An International New York Times opinion piece criticising the powerful Pakistani army was censored by its local publisher Friday, replaced ...

After six years of conflict in Syria, government backers Russia and Iran and rebel supporter Turkey have signed a deal ...

Artists in Saudi Arabia are pushing boundaries as the kingdom undergoes rapid change and tries to boost its cultural offerings, ...

Iraqi forces thrust into west Mosul from the north on Thursday, opening a new front in the more than six-month-old ...

A closure of the Hodeida port would "bring disaster to Yemen," which is already on the brink of famine, the ...

The leader of the radical Palestinian group Hamas called on US President Donald Trump Wednesday to break with past approaches ...

Eleven journalists died covering conflict or were assassinated in Iraq during the past year, a Baghdad-based watchdog said in a ...

Yemen's commercial food imports are at a record low, driving up the cost of staples in what is now the ...

A Saudi appeals court has ordered about a dozen people accused of negligence in a deadly 2015 crane collapse at ...

Israel warned its citizens on Wednesday against visiting Tunisia, where Jewish pilgrims will celebrate a religious festival later this month, ...

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday condemned the "illegal" detention of two Israeli citizens by Hamas, releasing new details about the ...

Sunday morning is usually the preserve of Christian pastors in the Nigerian megacity of Lagos but a new form of ...

A powerful Saudi royal said Tuesday that there could be no rapprochement between his country and Iran, which he said ...

An FBI translator who was hired to spy on a German member of the Islamic State group instead apparently grew ...

More than 30 civilians and Kurdish-led fighters have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants near Syria's north-eastern ...