Jury selection was set to begin Monday in the trial of four men accused of plotting terror attacks in New York. The alleged scheme came to an end with a dramatic night sting in Riverdale a little

Somali militants killed two soccer fans whom they caught watching a 2010 FIFA World Cup game, the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) said on its website. In 2006 the Islamic Courts

A Muslim community leader, Noor Ramjanally, who claimed he was kidnapped by members of the British National Party was caught out lying by covert surveillance cameras designed to protect him, a court

Geert Wilders, who is demanding a halt to immigration from Muslim countries as the centerpiece of his campaign for the Dutch prime ministership, has hailed Israel for "fighting the jihad” and warned

The ranking is contained in the 2010 Global Peace Index, which examines crime rates, defence spending and respect for human rights. New Zealand has taken out the top ranking for the second year in

The extreme right-wing group Voorpost disrupted an experimental session of a Shari'a court in the Amsterdam cultural and political centre De Balie on Tuesday evening. Footage shown on Wednesday by

Muslim teens at a Copenhagen concert threw eggs at pop icon who shares a name with a holy city of Islam It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Denmark’s answer to Lady Gaga, decided

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt cautioned that the riots that blighted the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby on Monday and Tuesday needed to be brought quickly under control.

A directory of the 100 most 'women-friendly' mosques in England has been launched today. The list has been compiled inter-faith, community cohesion and conflict resolution organisation, Faith

HOUSTON — A Texas man who pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he tried to help al-Qaida referred to members of the terrorist group as his "brothers," was eager to prove his dedication to

Dear Embassy of Turkey

In early 1995 as an associate lawyer at Arnold & Porter (I was later elected a partner, and eventually left practicing law in early 2006), I had the pleasure and honor

CAIRO — Women must be allowed to hold up "half the sky" for poverty to be challenged, wrote Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn in their powerful 2009 book of the same name. But when many women

There has been yet another attack against Nigerian Christian: this time in Kano state, north of Jos where January and March violence took place. Two churches and a pastor's home were

This week sees the launch of a hilarious new campaign called "Inspired by Muhammad” (as we are now all expected to spell Mohammed). It claims to want to "improve the public understanding of Islam and

Erdogan's bellicose support for the flotilla has sacrificed Israeli relations in the service of retrograde east-facing aspirations.Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called the Israeli