CAIRO (AFP) The Egyptian capital’s Museum of Islamic Art — the world’s largest — was officially reopened by President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday after an eight-year restoration project.

Lebanese troops have killed one of the leaders of the armed group that battled the army in 2007 at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, a military spokesman has said.

DUBAI (Al Arabiya) Hundreds of artists from all over the world are competing in a contest for the beautification of Islam’s holiest city, Mecca.“The objective of the competition is to spread the art culture through paintings that depict the Islamic heritage of the holy city,” said Dr. Osama Fadl al-Bar, Mecca’s mayor and supervisor of […]

Barack Obama, the US president, has backed a proposed mosque and Islamic community centre near the site of the former World Trade Centre in New York that was destroyed in the September 11 attacks.

WASHINGTON: The US military has stopped urging Pakistan to launch an operation in North Waziristan to root out the Haqqani network, officials said.

A teenager has been killed and several others have sustained injuries as paramilitary forces fired tear gas and warning shots at protesters in Indian-administered Kashmir.

OCCUPIED JEURSALEM (AFP) Israel deployed hundreds of extra police in mostly Arab east Jerusalem as Muslims flocked to the flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque compound for the first Friday weekly prayers of the Ramadan holy month.

A poll taken for the British Council Scotland also suggests that 65% of Scots believe Muslims are integrated well into everyday Scottish life while only 21 per cent thought they had not.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies) Israeli armed forces chief Gabi Ashkenazi on Wednesday defended his troops’ use of lethal fire when they stormed a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May, killing nine pro-Palestinian activists.

US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO, Cuba: Osama Bin Laden’s former cook was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday in the first prison term handed down by a Guantanamo Bay court since President Barack Obama took office.