Five Indian citizens were kidnapped in western Niger during an attack last week by armed men that also killed a dozen soldiers, according to two Nigerian security sources and a statement by Indian ...

Twelve Nigerien soldiers have been killed in an attack in the west of the Sahel country and two suspects have been arrested, the army said in a statement seen by Reuters on Saturday. Read more at ...

Timbuktu’s beginnings go back to the 1100s when a group of Tuareg wanderers from northwest Africa made a temporary camp near ...

I was accompanied by members of the European Coordination Council Ammale (Alliance of Mosques, Associations and Muslim Leaders in Europe), a new body I helped establish to bring together Muslim ...

The judge, who recently took charge of the fast-track court and set the new date of hearing, said he hadn't reviewed the case documents and needed time to go through the case file before any ...

In Sambhal, the violence marked an alarming shift. At the centre of the unrest was a court-ordered archaeological survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid – a 16th-century mosque now claimed by Hindu ...

For women, just entering a place of worship has often been a fight. Regardless of the religion, be it Sanatan Dharma or Islam, sacred spaces have drawn lines. Some are old taboos, others are new rules ...

Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM said it killed 70 soldiers in raids on two military posts in north Benin, the biggest death count claimed by jihadists in the country in over a decade of activity in West ...

A prominent local mosque in East London has condemned Dagenham & Redbridge FC over the sacking of pro-Palestine Arab influencer Salma Mashhour and urged the club to reverse the decision amid ...

On Friday, the damage-control efforts were palpable. Samserganj MLA Amirul Islam, who usually takes part in Friday prayers at a mosque near his home in Pithkuri village, on this Friday visited a ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

According to a statement on Friday, Obasanjo made the call during the public presentation and unveiling of the prototype and designs of the remodelling of Egba Central Mosque, Kobiti, Abeokuta.