Mauritanian authorities licenced 18 political parties including a party representing the moderate Islamic movement, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), as a curtain raiser for a new political stage

Global rights group Amnesty International has urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to allow independent observers at the trial by a military court of 40 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood.

At a time when Islamist movements across the Arab world have chosen to participate in official political processes, grave concerns have arisen over the nature and repercussions of this participation

Election results in Turkey have put to rest the lie that the AKP is merely an obscure Islamic secret society. Yet, the results also present a great danger. The newly

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP bolstered its share of the vote in Turkey’s parliamentary election thereby becoming the balancing power in Turkey. Günter Seufert reports from Istanbul

A week has passed since the “historic” general elections in Turkey. However, discussions over how the Justice and development Party (AKP) achieved a landslide political victory are gradually heating up

President Musharraf faces the most serious challenge to almost eight years of military rule. Opposition has gathered momentum following his failed attempt to remove the Chief Justice of the Supreme

Who will defend the Muslim who doubts his faith? Who speaks for the man or the woman who might believe in Allah, by his or her own lights, but does

There are 48,000 ’security contractors’ in Iraq, working for private companies growing rich on the back of US policy. But can it be a good thing to have so many

Promoting democracy around the world is the centerpiece of President George W. Bush’s national security strategy. It is also a goal that is strongly supported by all of the leading