Islam

By Mohammed Benmansour ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) -Thousands of face-masked Muslims gathered on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat on Monday, praying...

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's government is set to decide whether to extend the country's toughest coronavirus curbs...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Muslim pilgrims vaccinated against COVID-19 gathered on Sunday for the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi...

BAMAKO (Reuters) -Three Chinese nationals and two Mauritanians were abducted from a construction site in northern Mali on Saturday when...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Brief clashes erupted on Sunday between Israeli police and Palestinians at Al Aqsa mosque over visits by...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - For Palestinians who lost loved ones in the fighting between Gaza militants and Israel...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria has put six states on red alert after seeing a "worrisome" rise in COVID-19 infections, a...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Sunday slammed a ruling by a top European Union court allowing the banning of headscarves...

By Stanley Widianto and Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's religious minister called on Friday for people to...

KABUL (Reuters) - Government officials in a western Afghan province on Thursday said they had negotiated "an indefinite ceasefire" with...

By Sabine Siebold and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Companies in the European Union can ban employees from wearing a headscarf...

By Abdul Qadir Sediqi and Orooj Hakimi KABUL (Reuters) -Taliban fighters in Afghanistan seized control of a major border crossing...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday it was important to Turkey...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday it was important to Turkey...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A delegation of the Afghan Taliban's political office was in Moscow on Thursday, Russia's Interfax news agency...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia, Iran and Turkey will continue to cooperate in Syria to decisively defeat Islamic State and other...

BAUCHI/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Suspected Islamist militants killed 18 people when they attacked a village in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, two...

HERAT/KABUL (Reuters) - Regional officials in northern Afghanistan said on Wednesday they had recaptured government buildings in a provincial capital...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Dutch Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld politician Geert Wilders' conviction for discrimination after he insulted Moroccans at...

KABUL (Reuters) -The Taliban plan to present a written peace proposal to the Afghan government side as soon as next...