Palestinian activist Khairi Hanoun was arrested Monday by the Israeli army, weeks after footage of a soldier kneeling on his neck during a protest sparked outrage.

Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi, the eminent Sunni scholar of Iran, Sistan-Baluchistan, has accepted the request of the Global Halal Tourism Organization joining the Supreme Council of the GHTO.

Alluding to signing of an agreement to normalize relations between the UAE and Bahrain with Israel, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid of Zahedan, Iran, saw it as the result of divisions among Muslim countries.

The Israeli military carried out a series of air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip on Wednesday after rockets were fired into Israel during….

A leading American civil rights group has cooperated with a California Islamic clothing brand to launch a T-shirt initiative celebrating Islam’s commitment to racial justice.

Strongly denouncing French magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ for republishing offensive cartoons of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Shaikh Abdol-Hamid called such actions as aiding extremism and terrorism in the world.

Afghanistan’s warring sides started negotiations for the first time, bringing together the Taliban and delegates appointed by the Afghan government Saturday for historic meetings aimed at ending decades of war.

The Afghan government has deliberately delayed the release of Taliban prisoners to impede the so-called intra-Afghan talks, Taliban officials have told Al Jazeera, as at least 100 inmates remain in jail.

The US will call back some 2,200 soldiers from Iraq by the end of September, a top commander announced on Wednesday.

At least 10 people were killed and 15 others wounded in an explosion targeting the convoy of Afghanistan’s Vice President Amrullah Saleh in central Kabul early Wednesday, officials said.