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Dubai--Muslim scholars from a dozen countries on Thursday condemned suicide bombings by Islamist rebels in Moscow and Dagestan as "criminal…

Sanaa--Around 30 prisoners escaped after a bomb explosion at a prison in southern Yemen on Thursday, police said, identifying the…

International donors on Wednesday pledged US$5.3 billion to Haiti, exceeding expectations in a worldwide drive to rebuild the country after…

Stockholm--Israel says it is "regrettable" that Sweden's main pension funds dropped an Israeli company from their portfolios because it provides…

Tehran--Iran said on Thursday the talk of sanctions by world powers against the Islamic republic over its nuclear program is…

Khartoum--Sudanese presidential hopeful Yassir Arman has pulled out of April's vote, casting further doubt on the electoral process and clearing…

Baghdad--Anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's faction will consult ordinary Iraqis in a nationwide referendum to decide whom to back as Iraq's…

Paris--Prominent Muslim scholars have recast a famous medieval fatwa on jihad, arguing the religious edict radical Islamists often cite to…

Damascus--Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt on Wednesday, the official Syrian news agency said, sealing reconciliation…

Belgrade--The Serbian parliament early Wednesday passed a landmark resolution condemning the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims but…