Bowing to pressures from Buddhist monks, Sri Lanka’s government has ordered the removal of a decades-long mosque.

Syrian troops backed by tanks have stormed a Damascus suburb, activists said as an advance team of UN ceasefire observers continue their tour of flashpoint areas to lay the groundwork for an expanded monitoring mission.

As fury continued over the visit of Egypt’s Mufti to Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), prominent scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi denounced the visit as haram, unlawful, for normalizing ties with Israel and its military occupation of the Muslim holy city.

A visit by Egypt’s Mufti Ali Gomaa to Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) has sparked fury in the Middle East, amid calls for the top religious scholar to resign.

Egypt’s election commission has disqualified ten candidates from running for the country’s presidential election, including top Islamist candidates and the former spy chief of deposed president Hosni Mubarak.

Showing the true nature of their faith, a diverse Muslim community in South Korea is struggling to overcome challenges posed by a stereotyped media.

A campaign by a German Muslim group to distribute free copies of the Noble Qur’an as part of efforts to educate people about Islam is inviting anger from German politicians, The Local newspaper reported Wednesday, April 11.

The Egyptian parliament has passed a law banning top officials who served under Hosni Mubarak, the country’s former president who was overthrown in a popular uprising last year, from becoming president.

An al-Qaida attack on a Yemeni army post in the south set off clashes that left 64 people dead on Monday and prompted local civilians to take up arms alongside the military to beat back the militants, said army officials and residents.

Gunfire from the Syrian side of the border has hit a refugee camp inside Turkey, wounding at least three people.