A sisterhood group in Manhattan is setting an example for Muslim women, who are joining hands to dispel misconceptions about their faith.

The Muslim Brotherhood said the parliament that emerges from Egypt’s landmark elections should form a government, setting the stage for possible confrontation between Islamists and the ruling generals who have only just named a new prime minister as the Tahrir sit-in protest against the military council entered its 12th day on Wednesday.

At about eight o’clock on a dull autumnal morning, a mother is preparing breakfast for her young son in the kitchen of an unassuming private house on a little modern estate in Leicester. The doorbell rings. Outside, a series of people carriers and estate cars are rolling up one by one; out of them tumbling […]

Syria’s military and security forces have committed crimes against humanity, including murder, torture and rape in their brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters, U.N.-appointed investigators said on Monday.

British Muslims are angry over Greater Manchester police tactics of sending informants into mosques to spy on worshippers, warning that the move risks sewing mistrust between the religious minority and security agencies.

Egypt’s ruling military council has apologised for the deaths of demonstrators during six straight days of anti-military rallies.

Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered a probe into violence that left five people dead in Sana’a on Thursday, a day after he signed a deal to immediately hand over his powers to his deputy.

Clashes between police and protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square erupted for a third day Monday while the death toll rose to 22, amid fears Egypt’s first vote since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak could be at risk.

Clashes between police and protesters in Cairo have left dozens wounded and have so far led to the arrest of at least four demonstrators.

Syrian activists say that army defectors have attacked an intelligence complex in the Damascus suburbs in what appears to be one of their boldest assaults so far against government security forces.