Muslim community in eastern French town of Dijon were targeted by an Islamophobic attack, local media reported on Friday.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday approved a decision to fine Muslim parents who refused to send their daughters to attend mixed swimming lessons on the basis of their religion.

Iran’s ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a dominant figure in the country’s politics since the 1980s, has died at the age of 82, media say.

Calling on the authorities to ‘review some of their domestic and foreign stances’, the outstanding Iranian Sunni leader termed ‘religious freedom’ and ‘equality’ among the indisputable due rights of the Iranian Sunnis.

An Israeli soldier who shot dead a wounded Palestinian assailant as he lay on the ground posing no apparent threat was convicted of manslaughter Wednesday after a trial that deeply divided the country.

A grocery shop in the US state of New Mexico is under fire for posting controversial signs — including one that reads “Obama & other Muslims Not welcome here” — on its storefront.

A heartbreaking picture purporting to show a dead Rohingya child from Myanmar has evoked memories of Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi who was found washed up on a Turkish coast after drowning in the Mediterranean sea in 2015.

Almost 100 people from 17 western countries have formally converted to Islam at East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque over the past two years, according to mosque imam Sheikh Ekrima Said Sabri, a former grand mufti of Jerusalem.

Israeli forces detained two dozen Palestinians in overnight raids across Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli army.

Pointing out to tenure and illegal allotments around the city of Zahedan, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid said asked the pertinent authorities to find solutions for the housing of people.