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Ben Affleck has delivered a spirited defense of Muslims worldwide on a TV talk show hosted by a fellow liberal with little time for the Islamic faith.

• 07 октября 2014, 10:39

Two million Muslim pilgrims begin leaving the holy city of Mecca, concluding the annual hajj during which Saudi leaders lashed out at Islamic extremism.

• 06 октября 2014, 15:00

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

• 06 октября 2014, 11:28

Don't pray too close to each other, observe strict hygiene rules and don't shake the imam's hand. For Muslims in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone, this was an Eid festival.

• 05 октября 2014, 13:38

Tears flowed and prayers filled the air as the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage by almost two million believers from around the world reached its zenith.

• 04 октября 2014, 10:49

Well-known Kazakh political scientists Dosym Satpayev advises not to downplay the threat posed by the Islamic State terrorists.

• 25 сентября 2014, 21:25

With some 76,000 Nigerian Muslims expected at the hajj in Saudi Arabia, organisation was always going to be a major logistical undertaking.

• 19 сентября 2014, 12:04

Consumer Rights Protection Agency continues battling with fake-halal goods.

• 07 августа 2014, 16:32

At least 25 people in Indonesia, including six children, have died and 13 are missing in two separate boat sinkings, officials said, as millions travel across the country for the Eid holiday season.

• 02 августа 2014, 11:43

A clash in Xinjiang, home to China's mostly Muslim Uighur minority, left nearly 100 people dead or wounded, an exile group said Wednesday after what authorities called a "terror attack" on a police station and township.

• 31 июля 2014, 10:06

Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge court began a second trial of two former regime leaders on charges including genocide of Vietnamese people and ethnic Muslims, forced marriages and rape.

• 30 июля 2014, 13:35

Nursultan Nazarbayev has congratulated the citizens of Kazakhstan on Eid al-Fitr.

• 28 июля 2014, 20:49

The Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan will begin on Monday in Saudi Arabia and neighbouring states.

• 28 июля 2014, 16:25

A chain of specialized halal shops may soon open in every neighborhood of Astana.

• 25 июля 2014, 13:41

An escalation of fighting between the Philippine army and a breakaway Muslim rebel group in the country's south killed 18 people in a single day of violence, the military said.

• 22 июля 2014, 13:15

The Central Mosque Almaty has announced a Quran recital competition among children.

• 11 июля 2014, 17:12

A magistrate has postponed Tuesday's scheduled start of an operation to exhume a suspected mass war grave on Sri Lanka's east coast after police said they needed more preparation time, an official said.

• 01 июля 2014, 23:34

Gunmen opened fire at a mosque in insurgency-hit southern Thailand, killing one man and injuring another a day after Muslims began observing the holy month of Ramadan, police said.

• 01 июля 2014, 12:03

Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting, will begin on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, the state-run Al-Ekhbariya television channel reported.

• 28 июня 2014, 14:19

A Sudanese Christian who gave birth in prison after being sentenced to hang for apostasy was freed Monday but immediately went into hiding, fearing for her life, a lawyer said.

• 25 июня 2014, 10:22