A wave of car bombings and roadside blasts across several cities in Iraq have killed at least 46 people and wounded more than 180 people, police and hospital sources say.

In an unprecedented ruling in Britain, a Muslim woman was barred from serving on a jury for refusing to take off her face-veil (niqab), The Daily Mail reported Tuesday, March 20.

Thailand’s military admitted on Tuesday that four Muslim people killed by army rangers this week as civilians had no connection to an armed movement in the Muslim region.

The world’s largest Islamic body urged the international community on Monday, January 30, to take “necessary measures” to stop bloodshed in Syria, as street battles raged on the doorstep of the capital Damascus between President Bashar al-Assad’s troops and rebel fighters.

Sri Lanka has ordered a group of 161 foreign Islamic preachers to leave the country, for flouting visa regulations by preaching to pockets of Muslims around the country, an official said.

The Arab League’s monitoring mission to Syria has been frozen given the escalation of violence in the country, a source at the Arab League told Reuters on Saturday.

The Dutch government plans to ban Muslim face veil in public are drawing negative reactions and condemnations from Muslim groups and other political parties as an attack on freedom of religion.

Lawmakers, human rights advocates and Muslim leaders have joined hands to call for a public inquiry into distorting media coverage of Muslims and their faith in Britain.

Egyptians head to Tahrir Square on Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak with some seeking a new revolt against army rule and others celebrating the changes already achieved.

The grand imam of Al-Azhar has called on Arab countries to take ‘serious and urgent’ steps to halt the Syrian government’s 10-month bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.