Wide scale sweeps of arrests have been launched today at dawn(Thursday Feb. 14, 2008) by the Egyptian security forces against Muslim Brotherhood members.

Five Danish newspapers have republished on Wednesday(Feb. 13, 2008) a caricature satirizing the Prophet Mohammad which sparked huge protests across the Muslim World in 2006.

After months of heated debate, the zoning appeals board in Walkersville has rejected a proposal by a Silver Spring-based Muslim sect to build a mosque and retreat facility on a

THE West doesn’t know quite what to think of Turkey’s Islamic-oriented ruling party: does it envision a liberal, European future for Turkey or an Islamist one? A vote this week

Parliament voted Saturday to amend the constitution to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves at Turkey’s universities, despite fierce opposition from the secular establishment.

After Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s followers toppled a U.S.-backed autocracy in Iran, he brought to power a coterie of politically engaged clerics who sought to create the world’s first Islamic republic.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and his hard-line allies rail against the United States and other external “enemies,” but who they really fear are their own citizens.

President Bush’s nominee for ambassador to Egypt, brushing aside allegations of interference, vowed on Wednesday to do all in her power to push the most populous Arab country to advance

U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan pressed Egypt on Wednesday to free members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood who are on trial in a military court, urging leniency for the sake

Oil and conflict. These are the two topics that dominate news coverage of the Middle East.