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RIYADH - Yemen has handed over 29 Saudis wanted for suspected links to Al-Qaeda, the interior ministry announced on Thursday. "As part of joint efforts between security services in the two countries, the kingdom has received 29 Saudis... (who) had joined Al-Qaeda in Yemen," interior ministry...

It was pop culture at its defiant best when the Nirvana band sang in 1993: Rape me, Rape me again/ Hate me, Do it and do it again/ Waste me, Rape me, my friend. Kurt Cobain who wrote the lines described it as “a life-affirming song... like she is saying. ‘Go ahead, rape me, beat me. You’ll never...

The Yemen government has deployed troops in the northern province of Saada to monitor a ceasefire between Shia Houthis and Sunni Salafis, a security official said. The deal brokered late on Friday by a presidential commission ends fighting that erupted in late October centred on a Salafi mosque...

SANA’A, Nov. 25 — Dammaj locals are resorting to building underground shelters because of continued shelling from the Houthis that have destroyed homes, said Ahmed Al-Wadaei, the manager of the Dammaj Hospital, a facility that is not longer functioning due to shelling that took place on the...

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s private response to allegations that the nation’s intelligence agency attempted to wiretap the phones of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his inner circle has “met [the president's] expectations,” the palace said on Tuesday in a brief statement that...

Historically, Iran had been virtually Sunni, with small minorities of Shiites only in some cities, until the 16th century when the Turkish-Sunni Safavid dynasty, ruling over the Iranian region, changed its sect to become Shiite due to political considerations. Later, it emerged as a rival to...

Miss World organisers have axed the famed bikinis from this year's pageant, replacing them with conservative beach sarongs amid mounting protests from hardline Muslim groups. Indonesia will host the 2013 Miss World competition in the country's resort island of Bali and the capital...

DEVIANT: Shia groups ‘a serious threat to Muslim community’ ALOR STAR: RELIGIOUS teachers and Muslim non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have commended and fully support the state government's decision to declare Shia teachings as deviant. They welcomed Menteri Besar Datuk...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia said on Wednesday that Shias in the country, who have been termed a ‘deviant’ sect, are barred from promoting their faith to other Muslims but are free to practise it themselves. Some 200 Shias were arrested in December by religious authorities who accused them...

The Selangor Islamic Department (Jais) director Datuk Khusrin Munawi defended today the arrests of 200 Shia made two weeks ago. Khusrin claimed that those arrested were practicing deviant Islamic teachings and stressed that he need not apologise. “We have been observing the...

States have been urged to gazette an anti-Shia fatwa to check the Shia belief from spreading as it will bring negative consequences and divide Muslims. Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said state governments should study the matter and emulate Kedah’s example...

SAMPANG - An Indonesian court sentenced a Shia cleric Thursday to two years in prison for blasphemy, saying his teachings deviated from mainstream Islam and had caused “public anxiety”. Tajul Muluk was arrested in April by police on the island of Madura off eastern Java amid...

General Reza Zarei, Tehran's chief of police, has been under arrest in Iran since mid-March for a curious scandal: He was caught in a brothel with six prostitutes. One of the women involved says Zarei, 52, asked the group to remove their clothes, "stand in a row in front of him and...

JAKARTA (AFP) Indonesian police commonly beat and torture people in custody and offer better treatment in exchange for money and sex, Amnesty International said in a report released. The human rights organisation demanded the Indonesian government acknowledge the problem and end...

The Korea Muslim Federation (KMF) said Friday that it would open the first Islamic primary school named ``Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Elementary School'' next March with the objective of helping Muslims in Korea learn about their religion through an official school curriculum. Plans are...

TEMPO.CO, Surabaya - East Java regional police were indignant of the appearance of their missing staff, Pol. First Brigadier Rani Indah Yuni Nugraeni on a national television, Thursday, June 13. This pretty 25-year old police woman shared her side of a story of being abused by Mojokerto...

The Indonesian government has said that Iranian nationals are the most common smugglers of class-A drugs into the country as of January this year. Malaysians were the next-highest group, with eight suspects arrested so far this year, followed by India with six suspects...

Dozens of Mobile Brigade (Brimob) officers vandalized the Sabhara quick response unit’s headquarters over a text message. The Brimob officers had departed from Brimob headquarters in Srondol, South Semarang, plainclothes, and forced their way into Sabhara headquarters. They broke glass...

Last year I attended a conference in the US about security and intelligence in the so-called war on terror and was astonished to hear one of the more belligerent participants, who as far as I could tell had nothing but contempt for religion, strongly argue that as a purely practical...

Muslim scholars and human rights groups are appealing to the Indonesian police to rescind a ban on female personnel to wear hijab while on duty, The Jakarta Post reported Monday, June 17. “The opportunity to become a member of the police force should be equal, including for Muslim women...