French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said attacks on Myanmar's Rohingya minority amounted to "genocide. France will work with other members of the U.N. Security Council for a condemnation of "this genocide which is unfolding, this ethnic cleansing," Macron said in an interview with the ...
Israel reopened an ultra-sensitive holy site Sunday closed after an attack that killed two policemen, but Muslim worshippers were refusing to enter due to new security measures including metal detectors and cameras. Crowds chanted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) as a number of initial visitors ...
Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls -- out of a group of more than 200 kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014 -- in exchange for prisoners, the presidency said Saturday. Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross helped ...
President Rodrigo Duterte warned Sunday that he could be "50 times" more brutal than Muslim militants who stage beheadings and said he could even "eat" the extremists if they are captured alive by troops. Duterte has repeatedly threatened drug suspects with death, but he raised ...
A blast in a St. Petersburg train carriage on Monday that killed 14 people and wounded 50 was probably carried out by a Russian citizen born in Kyrgyzstan, authorities from the predominantly Muslim central Asian state said. Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday ...
The number of violent attacks by "terrorist cells" in China has dropped due to increased security measures, state media reported on Tuesday, however it also cited experts as saying the level of attempted violence remains high. China says it faces a serious threat from violent ...
British police on Friday charged a 19-year-old Somali-Norwegian man with carrying out a stabbing rampage in London's Russell Square that killed an American woman and injured five others. London's Metropolitan Police said Zakaria Bulhan, of London, was charged with the murder of 64-year-old Darlene Horton, ...
Omar Mateen graduated from community college with a criminal justice degree, worked as a security guard and wanted to be a police officer. But a police academy rejected his application, prompting Mateen to complain that he was denied because of his Muslim faith. More details about ...
As the faithful chanted a Muslim prayer in unison, dignitaries and fans stood shoulder to shoulder to honor a man who used his celebrity to push for peace among races, religions and cultures. On phones and screens around the globe, thousands more joined the service ...
An Iranian delegation has left Saudi Arabia without an agreement for its citizens to attend the Muslim hajj pilgrimage this year, Saudi media have reported, a second failure by the rival Middle East powers to strike a deal. Relations between the two countries plummeted after ...
A Democrat running for Congress in Nevada claimed Tuesday that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid discouraged him from running because he is Muslim. Jesse Sbaih said the comments from his fellow Nevada Democrat came during a meeting the two of them had at a Las ...
An Israeli army veteran from the country's Arab minority has joined Islamic State insurgents in Syria, an Israeli security official said on Sunday, confirming a local media report. Israel says dozens of Muslim Arab citizens have illegally traveled to Islamic State's Syrian or Iraqi fiefdoms, ...
