From James Foley to Steven Sotloff, the tragic killings of both journalists by the militant group that calls itself the Islamic State and might be more widely known as ISIS, is not only alarming as an ...

Many experts on the Middle East never thought they’d see the day when the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates would be sitting collegially with the prime ...

(RNS) Sentenced for professing his atheism, Alexander Aan was recently released after 18 months in an Indonesian prison. Masood Ahmad has already served over two months in a Pakistani prison for ...

Omid Safi, director of the Duke University Islamic Studies Center, is well aware that books abound on Muslims and politics. Works intended to explain or defend Muslim culture or the opposite, to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When I read the horrifying story, I cried. A Somali Muslim girl, only 13 years old, had been raped by three men. She was charged with adultery, buried up to ...

Islamic scholars and clerics from Nigeria, the United States, the Middle East, and Europe have unanimously rejected attempts ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Tuesday, ISIS released the latest in a series of gruesome filmed murders of its ...

The Arabic definition of Islam is 'submission' and also has roots from the Arabic word for peace - salaam. Whilst there is not a distinct Just War theory in Islam, rules about behaviour before and ...

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 14 (Bernama) -- The Muzakarah Committee of the National Council for Islamic Religious Affairs Malaysia (MKI) today declared that the teachings, beliefs, and ideology of GISB Holdings ...