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 […]

Abu Bakar Bashir, the controversial Indonesian cleric, has been jailed for 15 years on charges he helped plan and fund a camp of fighters in the western Aceh province which aimed to kill the country’s president.

At least 10 people have been killed and several others have been injured in two unauthorized US drone attacks on Pakistan’s troubled northwestern tribal region.

Pakistan has arrested five alleged informants for the CIA who helped in the US raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in northern Pakistan in May, US media report.

Taliban have denied responsibility for twin massive blasts in northwestern Pakistan, blaming foreign secret agencies for the bombings that killed 39 people.

Taliban militants in Afghanistan’s eastern Wardak province have destroyed more than 20 NATO tankers carrying fuel to US-led soldiers stationed in the war-ravaged country.