The Latest Breaking News from Islam

The world is burning and France is fixated on whether women wear long sleeves to have a swim – a furore with obvious roots in the country’s deep Islamophobia, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The city of Grenoble's move to allow the full body-covering swimsuit for Islamic women has sparked a legal battle. Activists say it's a matter of civil — and women's — rights.

Kandahar (Afghanistan) (AFP) - The Taliban's religious police have put up posters across the southern Afghan city of Kandahar saying that Muslim women who do not wear an Islamic hijab that fully covers their bodies are "trying to look like animals", an official confirmed on Thursday.

A new study has found that Facebook failed to catch Islamic State group and al-Shabab extremist content in posts aimed at East Africa as the region remains under threat from violent attacks and Kenya prepares to vote in a closely contested national election

India’s civilisational heritage must be treated as a matter of pride — as one that unites every Indian

An Egyptian criminal court on Saturday sentenced to death by hanging the defendant in the murder of Father Arsanios Wadeed Rizkallah, priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Karmouz. Last month, the criminal court in Alexandria asked the country’s top mufti, the highest religious authority for Islam, to…

Exhibition space for documenta 15 art festival vandalised, as threats to Palestinian artists in Germany escalate.

Lisa Smith, 40, was acquitted of a separate charge of financing terrorism.

The Islamist Hamas group that runs the Gaza Strip is looking to impose new red lines in Jerusalem, epicentre of the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, even if that risks provoking another war.

The date of Eid-Al-Fitr changes each year

The date of Eid-Al-Fitr changes each year