An outstanding political activist of the Iranian Sunni community has criticized the role of the current ‘modern’ government of Iran regarding the rights of Iranian Sunnis. However, he expressed his optimism about the future of the Iranian Sunni community.

Sitting in a cafeteria in her middle-class neighbourhood of Ilioupoli, 43-year-old Anna Stamou says she soon hopes to be praying with her family at the new Athens mosque.

Horrifying stories of gang rape, torture and murder are emerging from among the thousands of desperate Rohingya migrants who have pushed into Bangladesh in the past few days to escape unfolding chaos in Myanmar.

At least 80 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a massive suicide truck bomb blast at a petrol station south of Iraq’s capital Baghdad, according to security sources.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni scholar has written letters to the Iranian foreign minister and Somalian president asking them to make their efforts to release the Iranian Baloch sailors captured by some pirates of Somalia.

Business and political leaders from around the Islamic world will meet in Istanbul starting Monday to discuss and address the economic challenges their countries face.

Syrian government forces and allied fighters advanced further into rebel-held Aleppo on Monday, pressing an offensive in defiance of international concern for the fate of the city and its beleaguered civilians.

Over 800 structures have been destroyed in Burma’s Rakhine State, where five different ethnic Rohingya villages lie, between November 10 to 18, Human Rights Watch reported on Monday.

Food has run out in eastern Aleppo and the medical sector is “kneeling under the burden of so many wounded civilians”, a senior UN humanitarian official has told The World.

Police in the capital of Ottawa are investigating after a mosque was spray-painted with hate words, Canadian media reported Friday.