Among Kuwait's Salafis, a rejection of violence
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Inside a desert tent, Islamists speak benignly of US and of ways to thwart attacks.
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Kuwait spares no efforts to help restore stability and security in Iraq, Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah said here Saturday.
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As violence worsens in Iraq on Jordan's eastern border and in the West Bank in the opposite direction, the kingdom's traditionally moderate Islamic activists have intensified their rhetoric denouncing the government.
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KARBALA, Iraq -- Posted at the door of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's office recently, a flier denounced the arrest of his followers. Up and down the barricaded street, soldiers and policemen loyal to his Shiite rivals stood sentry, some in tan armored personnel carriers, questioning anyone they...
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BAGHDAD, Jun 20 (IPS) - The second bombing of the Shiite shrine of  al-Askari in Samarra, Iraq, last week brought reprisal attacks,  but it also brought solidarity against the occupiers.
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Far from the big cities, life for ordinary Pakistanis continues as peacefully as ever
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim leaders in Saudi  Arabia rejected Friday U.S. criticism of religious constraints  in the kingdom, saying the cradle of Islam had a duty to uphold  its own faith.
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Kuwaiti officials criticise Shia Muslims who eulogised Lebanese militant Imad Mughniyeh after his death.
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JIDDA, Saudi Arabia -- The five men who attacked the US consulate are being vilified by some Saudis as criminals, not lauded as heroes, even though they targeted the offices of a country that remains unpopular among many Arabs.
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A leader of one of Norway's most respected Islamic groups defended the use of suicide bombings in certain cases and stirred a debate Wednesday in this Nordic country that sees itself as a beacon of peace and nonviolence.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - For most Palestinians, black-hooded gunmen have long been respected symbols of resistance against Israeli occupation.
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Separatists have received support from international Islamic groups, but they remain indigenous and largely self-sustaining.
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The killings in Mogadishu, Somalia's bloodstained capital, are not going away. Nearly every day, the city endures street battles, roadside bombs, showers of bullets.
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More and more Sunni fighters want to be allied -- and paid -- by the U.S. military. But they don't want to join the Shi'ite government's security forces
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DAVANGERE, India -- Kafeel Ahmed didn't seem the least bit angry as a young engineering student.
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Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Algeria was originally called the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, a name derived from a fundamentalist branch of Islam. Founded in 1998, six years after the outbreak of a civil war that has killed an estimated 200,000 Algerians, the group's stated mission was to...
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CAIRO - AIDS/HIV prevention officials in the Middle East and North Africa face a careful balancing act of spreading awareness about the disease without appearing to promote immorality.