The idea began as a hypothetical situation – what would happen if a few friends attempted to bicycle from their home in South Africa to the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia in time for the annual Hajj pilgrimage?

At least 1,034 people were killed in Pakistan’s commercial capital in the first 10 months of 2010, most of them victims of target killings, a government funded watchdog has said.

Foca, a region of breathtaking gorges and dark forests in south-eastern Bosnia will be forever remembered for some of the most appalling atrocities of the 1992-1995 war. The declaration of independence by a Muslim-dominated administration in Sarajevo on March 3, 1992 prompted a defiant Bosnian Serb population to try and carve out territory of their […]

In a landmark speech in Egypt last summer, President Obama vowed “a new beginning” between the United States and Muslims worldwide. Now, 14 months later, a poll finds opinion in the Arab world has turned strongly against the president.

At least 59 journalists have been killed because of their job in the first six months of the year 2010, the Switzerland-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) says.

A report published by the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Hebron branch, revealed that Israeli soldiers kidnapped 100 Palestinians in several neighborhoods in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and its surrounding towns and villages, in June.

Local councillors in Birmingham remain adamant that a controversial project to track the movement of Muslims in four wards of the city be scrapped after being told that the installation of more than 200 CCTV cameras would be up on temporary hold to allow public consultations.

Some 78 percent of Jewish Israelis now view Turkey, once Israel’s only Muslim ally in the Middle East, as an enemy nation, according to a poll published on Thursday.  The sharp switch in public attitude toward Turkey comes in the wake of a May 31 raid by Israeli commandos on an aid flotilla bound for […]

There has been a surge in roadside bombings and assassinations in Afghanistan during the first four months of this year, a new UN report has revealed.

The death toll in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories was “much lower” in 2009 than previous years, but human rights abuses against Palestinians remain widespread, according to a new report from the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.