Tag: Islam

Human rights groups in Senegal on Tuesday criticised what it said is an ineffectual crackdown on child begging driven by ...

Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reported dead on Tuesday, a day after Iraq declared it had driven ...

Boko Haram have publicly executed eight villagers in northeast Nigeria who opposed the enforcement of its hardline form of Islam, ...

Once the beating heart of Iraq's second-largest metropolis, the Old City of Mosul is now a broken wreck, its winding ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said Tuesday it had information from top Islamic State group leaders confirming ...

Amnesty International on Tuesday called for a commission to investigate crimes against civilians in Mosul by all sides in the ...

President Donald Trump on Monday hailed the "victory" of Iraqi forces over the Islamic State group in the northern city ...

One of four men arrested for sending thousands of dollars to the late Al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki pleaded guilty Monday ...

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has signed into law a cybercrime bill targeting online crime and militancy by groups such as ...

An Imam who sexually abused primary school children during Quran lessons at a mosque has been jailed. Mohammed Haji Saddique, ...

Discreet in his youth and invisible as the world's most wanted man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rose through the ranks quietly ...

Mosul was the largest city in the "caliphate" proclaimed by the Islamic State group and its loss is a huge ...

Mosul, wrested from the Islamic State jihadist group on Sunday, is Iraq's second city and one of its cultural jewels. ...

Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday denied reports of a "breakthrough" in talks with Hamas over returning Israeli citizens and ...

Al-Shabaab extremists from neighbouring Somalia beheaded nine civilians in an attack on a village in Kenya, officials said, adding to growing ...

With the battle to retake Iraq's Mosul from the Islamic State group drawing to an end, dozens of women and ...

With discreet black scarves tucked beneath their helmets, Afghan refugees Zahra and Masomah Alizada hurtle down Brittany's rural and winding ...

The decaying bodies of foreign jihadists are piling up among the ruins of Mosul where the last few dozen Islamic ...

Thousands of Yemenis demanding southern secession rallied in the streets of Aden on Friday, waving the flag of the formerly ...

A Nigerian court has thrown out a suit brought by a prominent pro-Iranian Shiite cleric against the military for human ...