A new count of the population of Norway’s capital city Oslo has revealed that Mohammad, the name of Islam’s Prophet, is the most common name for the first time ever in the European capital’s history.

Leader of Nigeria’s militant Boko Haram group has announced that a town in the north east of Nigeria seized by the insurgents earlier this month has been placed under the self-claimed “Islamic caliphate” known as ISIL or ISIS.

A leading American Muslim civil rights activist has complained that US Muslims were enduring similar racial profiling to African-American in Ferguson suburb in Missouri state.

Extremism and ‘Takfir’ jeopardize the interests of Islam and Muslims around the world, the outstanding Sunni Islamic leader, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid told the audience of a congress in Iran on Sunday 17 August, 2014.

A Muslim man has been shot dead inside an Albanian mosque in north eastern Switzerland city of St. Gallen while another man has been arrested, Swiss police said.

Challenging the idea of being oppressed to don hijab, a growing number of young British Muslim women are choosing to wear the Islamic veil or hijab, despite figures showing rising violence against visibly identifiable Muslims.

A Hindu mob has attacked Muslim shop owners in Gurgaon village in the north Indian state of Haryana and ransacked their stores after accusing them of selling beef meat, forcing dozens of Muslim families to flee the Hindu-majority village.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi, has urged on the Muslim leaders to reviews their ongoing stances as the current circumstances of the Muslim world show that it needs a new strategy.

India’s Supreme Court has rejected a petition seeking to ban Islamic courts on Monday, saying that they had no legal power to enforce their rulings over India’s 150 million Muslims.

After the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in favor France’s prohibition of face veils on Tuesday, a number of European countries are preparing the launch debates on introducing a similar ban.