An international body of Muslim scholars has dismissed United Arab Emirates decision to designate the group as “terrorist”, expressing “astonishment” over the charges.

Despite Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s recent remarks claiming that the US administration is signaling a change of policy over Syria and saying that both Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the radical Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) must go, US President Barack Obama has said his administration hasn’t changed its Syria policy and […]

Egypt will double to one kilometer (0.62 mile) the depth of a security buffer zone it is clearing on its border with the Gaza Strip after some of the worst anti-state violence since President Mohamed Mursi was overthrown last year.

Muslim sailors and not an expedition led by Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas, claimed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan while speaking in an Istanbul summit of Muslim Leaders from Latin America on Saturday, Agence France-Presse reported.

At least one Palestinian was wounded on Saturday evening in clashes between protesters and Israeli security forces during a demonstration in occupied east Jerusalem, police said.

Car bomb blasts in two northern Baghdad neighborhoods killed at least 17 people and wounded at least 57 on Friday, medical and security sources said.

Israeli authorities have dropped restrictions on access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, allowing worshippers of all ages into the holy city.

Palestinian officials say Israeli settlers have torched a mosque in the occupied West Bank, amid growing religious tensions and violence.

Air strikes by U.S.-led forces in Syria have killed 865 people, including 50 civilians, since the start of the campaign in late September against ISIL militants, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday.

An Israeli policeman was arrested Wednesday on suspicions that he shot and killed Palestinian youth Nadim Nuwara six months ago, Israeli media has reported.