Human Rights Watch has accused the Myanmar government of being involved in the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Arakan state. In a 153 page report, the New York-based group detailed ...
France’s largest Islamic grouping meets this weekend at Le Bourget, north of Paris, as the government prepares to extend the ban on Islamic headscarves in educational establishments, a move ...
In the United States, a report by The Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition accuses the New York Police Department of having carried out a covert surveillance programme targeting Muslims.
Out of the seven men and one woman running for president in Kenya, Mohamed Abduba Dida was the least known before camaigning began. He is also the only Muslim.
The Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula movement has called for a jihad, or holy war, in reaction to France's military intervention against Islamist fighters in Mali, according to reports issued on ...
An Al Qaeda-linked group who kidnapped a Frenchman last November says it is ready to negotiate his release as a French-led military offensive against Islamists gathers pace.
Religious tensions in northern Nigeria have been heightened following the suicide bombings of churches and other violent attacks on Christians by the Islamist group Boko Haram. Nigeria is ...
Armed militants with suspected links to Al-Qaeda have killed two people, wounded six others and say they have abducted 41 foreigners in an attack on a gas field run by the oil giant BP in central ...
