The stark cliffs of the Zagros Mountains on the Iran-Iraq border, and the dusty hills and plains that lie between those mountains and the city of Mosul, might seem an unlikely

AS ALWAYS with King Abdullah of Jordan, politics is a bit of a gamble. As part of his war on Islamist extremism he wants to foster a version of the religion that is more submissive to the

There is a disgraceful spectacle unfolding in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in which some of the leading lights of the West are playing the role of medieval court jesters, singing

Credible reports about the details of the operations of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, have not been terribly easy to come by, which makes a new piece by Arab analyst Hassan

Doctors at one English hospital have dealt with 1,500 cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in just five years, it emerged today. Figures from Birmingham's Heartlands Hospital

An imam in Nottingham believes it would be wrong to rename the A453 in honour of soldiers who died in the Afghanistan war. Dr Musharraf Hussain, chief executive and chief imam at

A radical Muslim leader pleaded not guilty in a Bosnian court Monday to charges of inciting terrorism for having encouraged his followers to fight alongside terrorists in Syria and Iraq.

An Orthodox Jew was beaten up by a gang of teenagers who said the attack was a protest ‘about the Palestinians and the Jewish community’, a court has heard. Balawal Sultan, 18,

Citizens and human rights activists from across the region have intensified their condemnations of terrorism since the rise of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), but this month

How about “Islamic jihadists”? Not on your life — not on the BBC or anywhere else in the mainstream media, which is indefatigably dedicated to keeping people ignorant and

The “no-go zones” in some Western nations, where law enforcement has lost control because of the influence of Islamic law, are coming to America. That’s according to several

Police commandos in the Philippines have been ambushed and killed by fighters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. This is despite a peace deal that was signed in March 2014 in which

Yesterday, another plane was grounded, this time at Los Angeles airport, because of another bomb threat. Three days running. But no worries, Obama is traveling around the

Wednesday night saw a flare of violence and an accompanying police operation on a scale without precedent in recent German history. A group opposing militant Islam in Europe