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Saudi Arabia

Crisis and conflict overshadow Eid in the Middle East

In Mecca, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, like Muslims around the world, has marked the end of the fasting month of Ramadan and the start of the Eid

18/07/2015

Saudi Arabia

Eid al-Fitr 2015: Muslims mark the end of Ramadan around the world

Lasting several days the festival began with the start of the lunar month of Shawwal which differs every year.

17/07/2015

World News

Eid: the Muslim world prepares for the end of Ramadan

Last minute preparations are underway across the Muslim world, to mark the end of Ramadan and the beginning of the three-day festival of Eid-al-Fitr

16/07/2015

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Newly-identified Srebrenica victims taken to final resting place

A truck carrying coffins with the remains of 136 victims of Europe’s worst mass killing since the Holocaust: the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The

09/07/2015

France

Google mosque search plunges web giant into controversy

07/07/2015

Series

Postcards from Kazakhstan: the massive mausoleum revered by pilgrims

The spectacular Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi dominates the landscape near Turkistan

06/07/2015

Tunisia

What is driving the surge in terrorism in Tunisia?

The recent increase in terrorism in Tunisia has been attributed to a number of factors. Among those are: a widening rift between Sunni and Shia

30/06/2015

Syria

ISIS blows up two ancient Islamic mausoleums in Palmyra

23/06/2015

World News

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins

For most of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, dawn on Thursday 18 marks the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.. It is a time of prayer and

18/06/2015

Chad

Chad bans burqa after two suicide bombings

Chad which is a predominantly Muslim country has banned people from wearing the full-face veil, following two suicide bomb attacks. The Islamist

18/06/2015

USA

US Muslims target Charlie Hedbo backlash with ad campaign

16/06/2015

Focus

How can we stop violence in the name of religion?

Violence in the name of religion has become an urgent global issue, with growing debate about how to stop it

15/06/2015

USA

USA: Anti-Islam rally targets Arizona mosque

Demonstrators, some of them armed, have denounced Islam outside a mosque in the US state of Arizona. The provocative protest comes weeks after

30/05/2015

World News

Southeast Asia too has desperate migrants drowning in unfriendly waters

14/05/2015

USA

Texas shooting suspect sent out tweets ahead of cartoon attack

US authorities are investigating possible links between gunmen shot dead by police at an anti-Muslim event near Dallas and international terrorist

04/05/2015

France

Islamophobic attacks rocket by 500% since Charlie Hebdo murders

16/04/2015

Germany

Anti-Islam group PEGIDA invites far-right figure Geert Wilders to rally

It is attracting fewer demonstrators than in the past, but the German anti-Islam group PEGIDA is making new attempts to revive itself. Several

06/04/2015

Yemen

Airstrikes in Yemen: "Local people will pay a heavy price"

Saudi Arabia is leading a military operation against Iranian allied Houthi militia in Yemen. To discuss the implications, and the consequences for

27/03/2015

Germany

Germany reverses headscarf ban for Muslim teachers

Today Germany’s highest court will lift the ban on headscarves for teachers, correcting a 2003 verdict. It follows an appeal made by two female

13/03/2015

Germany

German court fines father who 'tried to marry gay son off to Lebanese girl'

12/03/2015