Smear campaigns targeting Muslim politicians across Europe, which have seen many forced to quit, highlight an attitude of intolerance toward Muslims.

At least 20 people were killed on Saturday in a spate of attacks across Iraq’s capital.

A major Taliban suicide bomb and gun attack on a government security office in central Kabul during rush hour on Tuesday killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 320, a week after the militant group announced a spring offensive.

Air strikes on two markets in northwest Syria have killed more than 50 people, local sources told Al Jazeera, as Syria’s opposition negotiators said they were leaving peace talks that were held in Geneva.

Switzerland has suspended the citizenship process for the family of two teenage Syrian brothers after the boys’ refusal to shake hands with their female teachers for religious reasons.

A visiting Saudi religious official and Turkey’s top cleric on Tuesday said that by working together, the two countries can solve the problem of Islamophobia.

A college student who came to the United States as an Iraqi refugee was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight in California earlier this month after another passenger became alarmed when she heard him speaking Arabic.

A bomb blew up a bus and set fire to another in Jerusalem on Monday, wounding 16 people in an attack that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked to a six-month-old wave of Palestinian street violence.

Sheikh Mohammed Ayub, former imam of the Prophet’s Mosque, was buried in Baqih Al-Gharghad in Madinah on Saturday.

Educated Muslim women are much less likely to be employed than non-Muslim women, even when they have the same qualifications, new research has suggested.