August 17, 2013
6:59 am

An unidentified Pakistani man shows his anger as he speaks with security officials in Islamabad on Thursday. Police were locked in a standoff with the armed man, accompanied by his wife and two children, who fired his weapon periodically in Pakistan’s capital and who officials said was demanding the implementation of Islamic law. (photo credit: AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Former Pakistani MP leaps on gunman

Demanding Islamic law, Mohammad Sikandar occasionally fired a pair of assault rifles during a 6-hour stand-off with police, until an ex-legislator lunged in

By AP

August 10, 2013
7:15 pm

Protesters chant slogans and wave the Syrian revolution flags during a rally after the Friday prayer at Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt, December 28, 2012 photo creidt: (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood faces uphill battle

Its downfall in Egypt has deepened distrust of the secretive movement and raised suspicion over its religious agenda

By Zeina Karam

August 10, 2013
5:33 pm

A Syrian man carries an injured child away from a missile strike in Raqqa, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Iraqi leader vows to defend Kurds in Syria

Statement follows weeks of skirmishes between Kurdish militias and Islamic extremist rebel factions

August 7, 2013
9:35 pm

Brothers Tamerlan, right, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, pictured shortly before April's Boston Marathon blasts (Photo credit: AP/Bob Leonard)

Boston bomber pal tied to books questioning Holocaust

Mentally impaired acquaintance of the Tsarnaev brothers had literature doubting genocide, but has Jewish friends, lawyer says

By Bridget Murphy and Jay Lindsay

August 4, 2013
6:11 pm

A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi holds a banner with Morsi's image, during a march against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in the Nasr City section of Cairo, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Egypt says clock ticking on sit-in standoff

Army threatens to crack down on Morsi supporters who have been camping out in Cairo’s streets to protest president’s ouster

By Hamza Hendawi

August 4, 2013
4:38 am

Rafat Awad, a 23 year old Palestinian pharmacist, adjusts his glasses in while posing for a portrait at a shopping mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, July 31. (photo credit: AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Arab atheists, though few, inch out of the shadows

Being a self-described atheist is rare in the Muslim-majority Arab world — but this tiny minority is taking small steps to emerge and find a voice

By Diaa Hadid

August 3, 2013
4:23 pm

A view of Amman, with the Jordanian flag flying high over the city (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

When Ramadan settles over the hills of Amman

During the month-long cycle of fasting and then breaking that fast, the Jordanian capital transforms from quiet solemnity by day to nonstop revelry by night

By Michal Shmulovich

August 2, 2013
3:48 pm

'Our spiritual values as modern Muslims have died under the suffocation of dim ritualism prizing external religiosity, ill concealing our barren souls.' (photo: Qanta Ahmed)

The farthest Muslims

Part 4 of A Muslim’s Requiem: Finding that the core of The Dome of the Rock suffers from decay that echoes the current state of Islam

By Qanta Ahmed

July 31, 2013
11:18 pm

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi hold sticks and wear protective gear during a march in Nasr City, where demonstrators have installed a camp and hold daily rallies, in Cairo, Egypt, late Tuesday, July 30, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Protesters brace as Egypt orders camps cleared

Security forces ready crackdown on pro-Morsi sit-ins; prosecutors indict top Muslim Brotherhood officials

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

July 30, 2013
6:44 pm

Egyptian Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, right, making remarks at a joint news conference with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, left, at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, July 30, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

Top EU diplomat says Egypt’s Morsi doing ‘well’

Catherine Ashton calls for a political process to end violence between opponents and supporters of the ousted Islamist leader

By Aya Batrawy

July 27, 2013
7:15 pm

Khaled Ibn El-Walid Mosque, in northern Homs (photo credit: Wikimedia commons CC BY-SA 3.0, NouraRaslan)

Syrian troops capture historic mosque in Homs

Army deals symbolic blow to opposition forces who had been in control of the 13th century landmark for more than a year

By Bassem Mroue

July 26, 2013
11:44 am

'Soon I would be walking around this shrine, if I ever finished my prayers. For now, I tried to concentrate on my lines. Attention in prayer has been a lifetime struggle.' (photo: Qanta Ahmed)

Inside the Dome

In the Inner Sanctum: Part three of A Muslim’s Requiem, a series on visiting The Dome of the Rock and al Aqsa Mosque

By Qanta Ahmed

July 24, 2013
4:46 pm

Supporters of ousted Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi perform an evening prayer known as 'Tarawih' during the Islamic month of Ramadan, in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt on July 10, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

The Holy Anti-Semitic Month of Ramadan

Across the Arab world, a month meant for spiritual reflection has become the time for watching TV shows that vilify the Jews

By Hussein Aboubakr

July 20, 2013
10:25 pm

An opponent of ousted president Mohammed Morsi holds up a poster of Egyptian Defense Minister General Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, their 'Lion of Egypt,' during a rally at Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, on July 19, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Egypt forms constitutional amendment committee

Team of legal experts will offer possible changes to the country’s Islamist-drafted constitution

July 20, 2013
8:14 am

Norwegian woman Marte Deborah Dalelv, 24, who was sentenced to 16 months in jail and subsequently released from a Dubai prison. (photo credit: AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Young Norwegian woman alleges rape, fights Dubai jail sentence

Topic: Islam