Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other men suspected for their involvement in terrorist activities have been extradited to the US after they lost their appeal in a London court.

Turkey again returned fire Friday after another Syrian shell slammed into its territory close to the border, said local authorities quoted by Anatolia news agency as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said that testing Turkey would be “a fatal mistake.”

PARIS – An Islamic artwork on a pavement has been taken down from a Toulouse Museum after sparking tensions among Muslim youth who said it allowed people to walk on Qur’an verses. “This was essentially one big misunderstanding,” Hassan Idmiloud, vice president of the Toulouse Muslim Association, told FRANCE 24 on Friday, October 5.   […]

CAIRO – A mosque in Sweden has received an initial approval to call Adhan (prayer call) from its minaret, the first such move in the Scandinavian country, the Gatestone Institute reported.

Turkey on Wednesday asked the U.N. Security Council to take the “necessary action” to stop Syrian aggression and ensure that the government there respect Turkish territorial sovereignty after Syrian shells hit the Turkish town of Akcakale on Wednesday, killing five civilians, including a mother and her three children.

Saudi Arabia’s Consultative Assembly has urged the kingdom’s religious police authority, commonly referred to as the Hai’a, to set up field guidelines for its members and define the cases in which they can intervene to enforce the Islamic law.

Amid a nationwide debate in France surrounding attitudes towards the Islamic veil, or hijab, a French rapper has surprised fans by announcing her conversion to Islam and choosing to wear a headscarf.

Iran’s currency, the rial, plunged nine percent to a record low of 32,500 to the dollar in early trade on Monday, before real-time data given by some exchange websites were censored.

ALEPPO, Syria, (AFP) — Troops shelled rebel positions in Aleppo on Sunday after a night of fierce fighting for control of Syria’s second city where a fire tore through a historic souk, monitors said.

Bombs striking targets across Iraq have killed at least 37 people and wounded 90, officials said, in the latest instance of what appeared to be co-ordinated violence.