It’s a controversial time for British women to be wearing the hijab, the basic Muslim headscarf. Last month, Belgium became the first European country to pass legislation to ban the burka (the most concealing of Islamic veils), calling it a “threat” to female dignity, while France looks poised to follow suit. In Italy earlier this […]

As the US death toll in Afghanistan reaches 1,000, many analysts within US pose serious questions over the fate of a wrenching war that nine years on shows no sign of nearing an end.

ISLAMABAD – Almost each and every street of the Federal Capital is infiltrated with notorious Blackwater, TheNation’s investigations reveal.

Prosecutors and defence lawyers have been discussing a possible plea bargain for a young Canadian held on terrorism charges at the US military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, a defence lawyer has said.

As if the adult media’s vitriol wasn’t enough, the seven-million strong American Muslim community, is now being faced by the alarming publication of a series of ‘children’s books’, containing misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the Islamic faith. The 10-book series – entitled the “World of Islam,” – is published by Mason Crest Publishing in collaboration […]

Hassan al-Turabi is an influential Sudanese political leader and a prominent Muslim scholar whose long-running power struggle with Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, shows no signs of ending.

Taliban on Thursday claimed victory after the US military withdrew this week from a rebel-infested area in eastern Afghanistan that became known as the “Valley of Death”.

GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian center for the defense of prisoners said on Monday that there are still 340 Palestinian children in Israeli jails exposed to many deliberate violations against their basic rights.

CAIRO — Mohammed Jawad is still struggling to pick up the pieces of his lost childhood and teenage years after languishing for seven whole years in America’s notorious Guantanamo detention center on terror charges.

CAIRO — Christian missionaries in Malaysia are using verses of the Noble Qur’an about Jesus in an effort to preach Christianity to Muslims in the south Asian country.