At least 21 people have been killed in a New Year’s day car bomb attack on a church in Alexandria. The blast early on Saturday targeted Egypt’s Christian community, the biggest in the Middle East.

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Husni al-Bourini, MP for the district of Nablus, expressed concern over the escalation in settlers’ attacks against Palestinians, the latest of which was on Wednesday night when settlers stoned Palestinian cars travelling on the road that links the northern to the central West Bank near the Shilo and Eli settlements.

Cairo– The Sunni community in Iran has called on the Iranian state to ban a television drama that insults the Prophet’s companion Abdullah Bin Zubayr [Ibn al-Awwam] and other companions of the Prophet (PBUH).

The Bombay Stock Exchange has unveiled a new index of companies that conforms with the Islamic legal requirements, allowing the country’s 140 million Muslims to play the stock market. Sharia law prohibits Muslims from holding an investment portfolio whose stock picks include companies that sell alcohol or tobacco, or businesses that make a substantial portion […]

An Israeli court found Moshe Katsav, the country’s former president, guilty of rape and other offences in a unprecedented conviction for a former head of state. “Katsav’s testimony was riddled with lies,” the three-judge panel said in its ruling. “When a woman says no, she means no.”

Two people have been killed and 18 others wounded in a series of bomb attacks against the homes of minority Christians in different parts of Baghdad, police and interior ministry officials said on Thursday.

JERUSALEM – Israeli Jews are divided over a call by rabbis for Jews to avoid renting or selling property to non-Jews, with 44 percent in favour, and 48 percent opposed, a new poll showed Tuesday.

GENEVA – Some 105 journalists have been killed while doing their job this year, media watchdog Press Emblem Campaign said Monday, describing the killing of reporters as an “epidemic with no cure.”

A car bomb and a suicide blast aimed at government offices in the western Iraqi province of Ramadi have killed seven people, four of them police, and wounded more than 50 others.

Israel’s foreign minister says Tel Aviv will never apologize to Turkey over its deadly attack on an Ankara-backed aid convoy, which was sailing for Gaza in May. It was “a cheek” for Ankara to request an apology before normalizing ties with Tel Aviv, Avigdor Lieberman said in al-Quds (Jerusalem) on Sunday. “There will be no […]