Thousands of Shiite Muslims marched throughout the region Friday to mark “Al-Quds Day,” or Jerusalem Day, in an annual protest against Israeli rule over the...
Cattle thieves have killed 23 people in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state which has been battling cattle rustling and kidnapping in recent months, a local...
An Egyptian court has ordered the suspension for one month of video-sharing website, YouTube, and others sharing a video found to be insulting the Muslim...
Parliamentary blocs will head to Baabda Palace Thursday to hold binding consultations with President Michel Aoun on their pick for who should head the next...
The Islamic holy month of Ramadan will begin Thursday in Saudi Arabia, the land of the religion's two holiest sites, authorities said.
Her fingers bleed from beneath the nail beds, but sitting at her workstation, filing Yemeni gemstones on a spinning wheel, Safaa al-Faqih is at peace in a...
Lebanon’s Grand Mufti Abdel Latif Derian announced that Ramadan will begin on Thursday, in a statement released Tuesday evening.
With official results out a day after the end of Lebanon’s first parliamentary vote in nine years, the election saw a shake-up of the 128 lawmakers who will...
Just outside Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh, a group of elementary school children are on a field trip at Diriyah, where engineers and construction workers are...
It was July 2015 when the FBI, scrambling to contain a surge in Daesh (ISIS) propaganda, first visited an Egyptian-American newspaper deliveryman in Maryland.
Christian political parties and the Future Movement issued statements Wednesday warning the Lebanese University against granting tenure to 570 professors, a...
The following names were announced as part of lists for the May 6 parliamentary elections over the weekend.
Set amid restored heritage structures in the heart of the old city, Calligraphy Square is one of the Sharjah Art Foundation’s favored venues for musical...
Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah will announce his party’s electoral program Wednesday, in a televised address at 8:30 p.m., a Hezbollah...
Rights activists in Pakistan expressed concern Sunday over a court ruling that would require people to declare their religion on all official documents,...
A Pakistani court ruled Friday that all citizens must declare their religion when applying for identity documents, a move human rights advocates say is...
One of the most frightening things about Pakistan's blasphemy law is that the simplest act can spiral into charges that can bring the death penalty.
In a wide-ranging late-night interview at his palace here, Saudi Arabia’s young Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman described a new wave of reforms as part of...
A newly built avant-garde mosque in the heart of Iran’s capital would have hard-liners shouting from the minarets – if there were any.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah announced that in the forthcoming parliamentary elections Hezbollah that candidates to be MPs will not be...