As the curtains are closing on the 41-year rule of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the victory of the opposition forces in Libya is expected to give a boost to a popular uprising against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

Giving Brazil’s carnival city a new taste, a growing number of Muslim converts in Rio De Janeiro is changing the face of the world’s biggest Catholic country.

Israeli diplomatic officials are holding discussions on Egypt’s decision to withdraw its ambassador to Tel Aviv as tensions escalate between the two countries.

Interweaving the teachings of Islam and everyday scouting activities, US Muslim children are increasingly joining Boy Scouts of America, seeing it a golden opportunity to practice their basic religious beliefs while following the scout law.

Syrian troops killed three people in the coastal city of Latakia on Saturday, activists said, in an ongoing onslaught of anti-regime protesters.

As the dark approaches declaring the end of a lengthy hot Ramadan day, Palestinian families prepare for their daily pilgrimage to the beach to break their fast and smooth the burdens of a scorching summer heat and a daily electricity outage.

Victimized in their own homeland, China’s Uighur Muslims are being forced out from their homes under a government policy to a centuries-old city which symbolizes the Uighur identity for hundreds of years.

A blast in a northern suburb of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, has killed at least two people, according to a police official.

The highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world has condemned a bloody crackdown by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces on anti-regime protestors, describing the situation in the Arab country as a ‘human tragedy’.

A Peterborough mosque has expressed its intentions to meet with members of the controversial English Defence League (EDL) after one of its national leaders expressed an interest in speaking with them.