The youngest Guantanamo prisoner, Omar Khadr, who was a 15-year-old fighting in Afghanistan when captured in 2002, was sent to finish his sentence in his native Canada.

An Egyptian newspaper has launched a campaign against the obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday addressed the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly, where he stressed the significance of his visit as “Egypt’s first democratically elected civilian president.”

CAIRO – As world leaders are meeting in New York for the UN General Assembly, the gap between Western and Muslim perspectives on freedom of expression and insults against religions casts its shadow over this year’s discussions following a film defaming Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him).

Britain on Tuesday prepared to hand over radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza to the United States on charges which include setting up an Al-Qaeda style training camp in US, despite European Court’s dissatisfaction.

A Brazilian court has ordered YouTube to remove an anti-Islam video that prompted violent protests across the Muslim world, while an elections court has ordered the arrest of a Google executive after the popular video-sharing service failed to remove a video attacking a mayoral candidate.

Arab countries should intervene in Syria out of “national, humanitarian, political and military duties” in the face of the UN Security Council’s failure to act, Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has said.

CAIRO – Demanding rights granted in the Noble Qur’an, Indian Muslim women have joined hands to find solutions for their problems and to press for enacting Islamic laws that protect their rights in the community.

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah arrived in the holy Saudi city of Medina on Monday to “lay the foundation stone for the expansion of the Prophet’s mosque,” one of Islam’s three oldest mosques in the world.

Anger over an anti-Islam film reached new peaks on Monday as a call for a mass boycott of the Google search website and video-sharing website YouTube was quick to ripple across the online Muslim world.