Turkey’s Department of Religious Affairs and China’s Islamic Association signed a cooperation protocol on Wednesday.The agreement was signed by Turkey’s Religious Affairs Head Mehmet Gormez and Chen Guangyuan, the head of China’s Islamic Association.

At least six policemen have been killed or left injured when a bomber blew himself up near a police checkpoint in Afghanistan’s eastern Ghazni province.

The Libyan government says 19 civilians have been killed in a NATO air strike on the home of one of Muammar Gaddafi’s top officials, a day after the Western military alliance admitted killing civilians in a separate attack.

A court in Tunisia has sentenced ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his wife to 35 years in prison after finding them guilty of embezzlement and other charges.

Bringing back bad memories of the Soviet repression, the Tajik parliament passed a bill last week that would ban children and adolescents from attending mosques, drawing sharp criticism from Muslim leaders as a crackdown on religious freedom.

Following the success of the young imam show, a new Malaysia TV show will be testing young Muslim women’s religious knowledge, skills and personality to choose the best women preachers.

At least three soldiers with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have been killed in separate attacks in eastern and southern Afghanistan.

Gun battles between forces loyal to Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and rebels in Libya’s northwestern city of Nalut killed at least 8 rebels and wounded 13 more, a rebel fighter in Nalut said on Saturday.

Morocco’s king has announced a series of proposed changes to the country’s constitution, including amendments that would strip him of some of his political powers.The changes, announced by King Mohammed VI in a live address to the nation on Friday, will be put to a referendum on July 1.

Al-Qaeda’s number two Ayman Al-Zawahiri has been named a new leader of the militant group, succeeding Osama Bin Laden, who was killed in a US raid.“The general leadership of Al-Qaeda group…announces that Sheikh Dr. Ayman Zawahri, may God give him success, has assumed responsibility for command of the group,” Al-Qaeda said in a statement posted […]