Tag: Islam

Two Saudi soldiers were killed Thursday in a rocket attack near the border with war-torn Yemen, the interior ministry said. ...

Female Islamic clerics in Indonesia declared a series of fatwas Thursday, including one to tackle child marriage, a rare example ...

A man suspected of being a radicalised Islamist shot and wounded two policemen on the French Indian Ocean island of ...

When Pope Francis visits Egypt's Al-Azhar this week, he will find support for his message of peace in the venerable ...

Turkey's police force has suspended more than 9,000 officers over alleged links to the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen. It ...

The Saudi coast guard fired on an unmanned boat rigged with explosives, thwarting an attack on one of the kingdom's ...

Bangladesh has approved a project to build hundreds of mosques with almost $1 billion from Saudi Arabia, an official said ...

The Islamic State group is using weaponised drones to hold off US-backed forces advancing in a key Syrian town, a ...

The death toll from a roadside bomb targeting a passenger vehicle in Pakistan's northwest rose to 13 on Wednesday after ...

Three suicide bombings rocked the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Wednesday, killing one civilian militia member and injuring several ...

A Saudi novelist has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, becoming the third author in 10 years from the ...

Iraq is holding hundreds of millions of dollars Qatari negotiators had brought to Baghdad as ransom money for the release ...

Countries around the world Tuesday pledged more than one billion dollars to help prevent a looming famine in war-torn Yemen ...

Jihadist militants from the Islamic State group posing as liberating security forces killed at least 15 civilians who welcomed them ...

The Philippine military said Tuesday it had killed almost 40 militants loyal to the Islamic State group, including three Indonesians ...

The horrific wounds and gruesome accounts of the victims filling a frontline clinic in west Mosul in Iraq offer a ...

The reporter's sentencing has been described as a travesty of justice Radio France Internationale (RFI) says its correspondent in Cameroon, ...

Yemeni protestors reached the Red Sea city of Hodeida Tuesday, ending a weeklong march from the capital to demand the ...

A Cameroon military tribunal on Monday sentenced a Radio France International correspondent to 10 years in prison for what it ...

A US-backed alliance of Arab-Kurdish forces entered the key jihadist-held town of Tabqa on Monday as they pursued their campaign ...