Syrian security forces killed almost 90 protesters on Friday, the bloodiest day in a month of demonstrations against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.Syrian security forces killed almost 90 protesters on Friday, rights activists said, the bloodiest day in a month of escalating pro-democracy demonstrations against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.

Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in Syria as security forces use live ammunition and tear gas to quell anti-government protests across the country.Activists sent a list naming 43 people from across the country, who they said had been killed by security forces during protests on Friday.

Religious leaders from various backgrounds — Protestant, Jewish, Catholic, Muslim and others — plan to rally Thursday at the Islamic Center of America (pictured), where Pastor Terry Jones says he’ll protest Friday against “radical Islam”. The clergy and others plan to link hands in a circle around the mosque to symbolically shield it from Jones, […]

Syrian forces fired at hundreds of protesters who had gathered overnight in the city Homs in defiance of warning by the authorities to halt what they called an insurrection, a human-rights campaigner said early Tuesday.

At least five people are reported dead amid fresh protests near the restive Syrian city of Homs, but the identities of those killed remains unclear.Government sources told Al Jazeera that two policemen were killed in the town of Talbiseh on Sunday while other reports claimed protesters had been killed.

Adding to the controversy raised about hijab and face-veil, UK Muslims criticized a statement published by a leading British Muslim body saying that women cannot debate wearing the veil as igniting unnecessary debates.

An Egyptian court ordered on Saturday, April 16, that the political party of the former President Hosni Mubarak should be dissolved, meeting a major demand of the protest movement that ousted Mubarak’s entire regime.

The German Minister of Education Annette Schavan wants imams teach courses in Islamic religions in schools, provided those imams are trained at a German university.In Germany, where church and state are not separate, the schools provide religious instruction, Catholic or Protestant to students.

Syrian students have demonstrated in the country’s second-largest city of Aleppo in the first protests there since a wave of pro-reform demonstrations broke out in mid-March, an activist has said.

Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former president, has been detained along with his two sons pending investigations into accusations of corruption and abuse of authority, the prosecutor general has said.