A series of gun and bomb attacks has wracked Iraq for the second straight day, with unidentified gunmen targeting a military base and car bombs exploding in Baghdad, Kirkuk and elsewhere.

The holy fasting month of Ramadan is bringing a special joy for Muslims in the city of Norman, in the US state of Oklahoma, this year as they celebrate the opening of a new mosque to accommodate the religious needs of the growing community.

In a major leap for the Muslim minority in the United States, a Muslim attorney was appointed to a California Superior Court judgeship, to be the first Muslim American on a California bench.

UN observers in Syria who visited the site of a reported massacre in a village in Hama province said they saw blood on the walls and were hit by a “stench of burnt flesh” but could not confirm how many had died.

Intensive clashes were taking place between the Syrian government troops and rebels in al-Abbasiyeen area in Damascus and sounds of explosions, shelling and gunshots were heard, Al Arabiya reported on Wednesday citing activists at the Local Coordination Committees (LCC), as Russia signaled it is prepared to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leave power as part […]

The health condition of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is ‘severely deteriorating,’ prison sources told Al Arabiya, three days after he was sentenced to life for complicity in the murder of hundreds of protesters last year.

Church leaders have thrown their weight behind Muslim plans to build a mosque in the southeastern US state of Tennessee after a court ruling halted the construction.

Egypt’s ex-President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday, June 2, after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year’s uprising that forced him from power.

The U.N.’s top human rights official said on Friday that the Syrian forces and allied “shabbiha” militia who stand accused of committing a massacre in Houla may be liable for prosecution for crimes against humanity.

The United States became the latest country on Tuesday to expel the Syrian envoy, joining Spain, Italy, Canada, Britain, Australia, France and Germany.