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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called Wednesday on the Muslim world to unite and punish the Saudi government.

Kazakhstan has arrested 21 members of radical groups plotting terror attacks in public places.

An angry debate over a ban on burkinis in France was further stoked by images of a veiled woman surrounded by police on a beach in Nice.

Turkey's ambassador to Kazakhstan warned Kazakhstan over its schools linked to US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen.

Militants inspired by the Islamic State group's ideology are seeking to benefit from the desperation of young Palestinians to strengthen their foothold in the Gaza Strip.

Two lawsuits filed in California on Monday claim that Muslim women were discriminated against in separate incidents because of their religion and for wearing the hijab.

Saudi Arabia has stripped its frequently criticised religious police of their powers to arrest, urging them to act "kindly and gently" in enforcing Islamic rules.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said extreme forms of Islam were winning the propaganda war for hearts and minds.

Saudi authorities have arrested nine American citizens and one Kazakhstani among 33 'terror' suspects.

Over 70,000 people sign a petition to ban Donald Trump from entering Britain after his call to bar Muslims from entering the United States.

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has congratulated Kazakhstanis on the Kurban Ait holiday.

The Republican contender Ben Carson ignited a storm of controversy at the weekend, by stating that he saw Islam as incompatible with the charge of head of state.

Kazakhstanis are getting one day off for the Kurban-ait holiday in September,

According to the report of the Ministry of Islamic Endowments (Awqaf) of Egypt, the Islamic State group will start recruiting new members from Central Asia, where Kazakhstan is located, Caucasus region and Indonesia.

A suicide bomber struck a Shiite mosque in the Kuwaiti capital during prayers, killing at least 25 people.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stressed there was no link between extremism and Islam.

The case of a Muslim girl who was banned from class twice for wearing a long black skirt seen as too openly religious for secular France has sparked an outcry.

French President vowed to introduce tougher penalties for "racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic" remarks in the wake of last month's militant attacks in Paris.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was on Tuesday accused of "scapegoating" an entire community and inciting "ill-feeling" after telling Muslim leaders to do more to combat extremism.

The head of Al-Azhar called for education reform in Muslim countries in an effort to contain the spread of religious extremism.
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