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The US and Afghan governments have begun secret three-way talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said. “There have been contacts between the US government an

The first black Imam of Mecca’s Grand Mosque in 2008 “Al-Masjid Al-Haram”, where over 2 million Muslims converge for pilgrimage every year has left the Kingdom of Saudi Ara

President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia announcement that he plans to establish 100 schools in Mogadishu is good news. The pr

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal plans to leave his post, according to a statement released by the group has said. Meshaal informed the leadership body of Hamas, known as the Shura Co

Somali security analysts say the announcement of the merger between the al-Shabaab movement and al-Qaeda follows logistical and financial losses incurred by both groups, and will

Following President Obama’s historic speech in Cairo on 4 June, 2009 in which he promised a new beginning in relations with the Muslim world, Farah Anwar Pandith was appointed

Tunisia’s opposition veteran Moncef Marzouki has been sworn in as the country’s first elected president since the north African nation’s revolution sparked the Arab Spring. 

Syrian security forces have continued pounding parts of the restive governorate of Homs as the Arab League called for the formation of an Arab-United Nations peacekeeping force.

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have joined a fellow inmate on a hunger strike, after human rights groups reported the original protester’s life was in danger.

Europe is threatened by a wave of “militant secularism” and religion should play a bigger role in public life, a British Cabinet minister has said, the latest British politic