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Turkey on Saturday sent more tanks into the northern Syrian village of al-Rai to fight Islamic State extremists, opening a new front after its intervention last month against the group, state media reported.

Arab social media has remained divided over France’s burkini ban even as the UN rights office on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to suspend the ban as unconstitutional.

An Oklahoma man is demanding that a “religious” image of a woman wearing a hijab be removed from a library vehicle because it promotes Islam on public property.

Bishop Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, has decried the “shocking” persecution of Christians in some African countries, who are being “simply swept away by radical Islamists.” After meeting Monday with the Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo,

JAFFA, Israel – A new Saudi group calling itself Multiplicity has recently been set up in a bid to soften women’s opposition to polygamy.

LOS ANGELES — Renowned Syrian-born psychiatrist and activist Dr. Wafa Sultan delivered one of her first public speeches in five years on Sunday, during which she implored the Western world to wake up and realize that “all Islam is radical.”

Border Police troops arrested a Palestinian woman Wednesday in possession of a knife near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, a police spokesperson said.

Huma Abedin, the closest aide to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, helped edit a Muslim journal that published negative statements about Jews, including accusing Jews of “working the American political system” and exploiting the Holocaust.

TEL AVIV – Israeli warplanes targeted positions of the Iran-backed Hezbollah Shiite militia along the Syria-Lebanon border on Wednesday, reported the Times of Israel, citing Arab media quoted in Hebrew news sites.

Islam had an estimated 3 million adherents in Latin America and the Caribbean as of the end of last year, marking an increase of nearly 25 percent from the 2.3 million who were residing there in 2010, a Breitbart News analysis of U.S. Department of State (DoS) data shows.

Two senior leaders of an Islamic movement in Morocco that promotes chastity were caught having sex on a beach, police say.

Singapore has announced it will begin requiring Islamic religious teachers, or asatizah, to register with the government in January, with a one-year grace period for all currently practicing teachers to qualify.

The German regional interior minister who shot to prominence over his alleged role in the failure to handle, and subsequent cover-up of the Cologne New Year’s Eve migrant rape attacks has spoken out against Germany introducing a French-style Burqa ban,

A popular Malaysian rapper was arrested Sunday over a music video in which he allegedly insulted Islam because the video was partially filmed in a mosque and features audio of the Islamic call to prayer.

LONDON (AP) — Britain has announced plans to house Islamist extremists in separate units in prison after a review found that some charismatic prisoners were radicalizing the wider Muslim population while incarcerated. The government-ordered study concluded that “cultural sensitivity” among

Russia flexed its muscles again over Syria on Friday, for the first time launching cruise missiles at targets from warships in the Mediterranean Sea days after beginning bombing runs from a base in Iran.

The British Broadcasting Service (BBC) – a public broadcaster funded by a “TV licence” fee forced on UK television owners – has declared that resistance to Shariah law is “Islamophobic”.

(AFP) – German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere came out Friday in favor of a partial burqa ban amid a fierce national debate on integration. “We agree that we reject the burqa, we agree that we want to introduce a

This week, the French archbishop of Rouen led the first pilgrimage of the faithful to the tomb of martyred priest Father Jacques Hamel, coinciding with the anniversary of one of the greatest slaughters of Christians by Muslims in history.

A Florida Imam with close ties to Omar Mateen, the Islamic terrorist who killed 50 people at an Orlando gay nightclub, says Sharia Law is not only “the best law,” but claims it is “already in the Constitution.”

Anjem Choudary’s wife is now under police investigation over allegations she ran an extremist female cell in East London. The 42-year-old mother of five was filmed praising Islamic State as she preached to impressionable Muslim mothers and their young children at a closed meeting.

The Associated Press published a report on Monday, compiled from court testimony and interviews with former ISIS fighters, that painted a dim picture of the Islamic State’s recruits. The early waves, in particular, were so clueless that some of them had to order Islam for Dummies from Amazon.com to brush up on the religion.

The founder of Italy’s largest Islamic association has called for legal recognition for polygamy, insisting that if gay marriage is a civil right, then polygamy is as well.

TWIN FALLS, IDAHO—City Councilman and former mayor Greg Lanting admitted Monday evening that he “was wrong” in his recent Facebook criticism of the parents of a five-year-old girl who had been sexually assaulted by refugee boys in June at the Fawnbrook apartments.

An Islamic group tied closely to jihadi terror groups is complaining that Donald Trump will violate the constitution by helping Americans better understand the nature of radical, jihad-promoting Islam.

Yesterday in Youngstown, Ohio, Donald Trump delivered the best speech of his campaign to date. Newt Gingrich rightly called it the most important since Ronald Reagan left office.

Donald Trump has outflanked Hillary Clinton on the Left and announced an ultra-progressive immigration policy.

Donald Trump is expected to announce his support for an ideological litmus test for new immigrants to the United States, who will be quizzed on gay rights, women’s rights, and pluralism.

Several Muslim worshippers were removed from the Temple Mount complex on Sunday after clashing with police and with Jews visiting the holy site on Tisha B’Av.

The Islamic State group freed hundreds of civilians used by the jihadists as human shields while retreating in northern Syrian, US-backed forces and a monitor said Saturday.

The Washington Times and the Jerusalem Post were very lonely in reporting that Muslim animosity toward Israel’s 47-member Olympic delegation has triggered a reprimand from the International Olympic Committee and protest from Jewish groups such as the Anti-Defamation League, which issued a statement this week decrying anti-Israel “hostility” in Rio de Janeiro.

If ever you’ve worried that parts of Britain now resemble some hideously corrupt, Third World Islamic basket case hell hole then you’re going to love Sir Eric Pickles’s gloriously robust report on electoral fraud. His target, it’s clear, isn’t just the

A federal judge has determined that the life insurance proceeds resulting from the death of San Bernardino Islamic terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook can be seized by the U.S. government.

A new study by British research firm Ipsos MORI conducted across 22 nations worldwide in Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia has found overwhelmingly negative opinions on migration among respondents, and a desire from many to control borders.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, has responded to criticisms in a new Human Rights Watch report by stating that the government will protect the rights of gay people, but there is “no room” for an LGBT “movement” in the

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte warned Wednesday of “white people, I suppose they are Arabs” looking to “indoctrinate” local populations in his country into radical Islam, and possibly working on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS). Duterte announced a pay raise for all soldiers, ordering them to “destroy” Abu Sayyaf, a native jihadist group that has pledged allegiance to ISIS.