The leader of a global Muslim movement Tuesday issued a rare religious edict condemning terrorism and denouncing suicide bombers as "heroes of hellfire" in an effort to help prevent the radicalization of young British Muslims.  The State Department welcomed the 600-page document known as a fatwa, which was released in London with the British government’s [...]

RIYADH — Health authorities in Jeddah have shut down an “illegal” women’s fitness centre attached to a hospital, closing one of the few venues where Saudi women are able to exercise, local media said on Wednesday. Although health officials have repeatedly blamed the high rates of heart disease and diabetes in the kingdom on poor [...]

1. AHMADINEJAD VOWS ISRAEL ‘WILL NOT LAST LONG’… 2. REJECTS HOLOCAUST AS ‘LIE’… 3. NUKE AGENCY SAYS IRAN CAN MAKE BOMB… Let’s see:  1+2+3= war and high gas prices His victory symbol means we are going to be paying him loads more money for the gas we buy from him.  We are letting ourselves be [...]

SYRIA: HUMAN RIGHTS, 3 YEARS IN JAIL FOR POLITICAL DISSIDENT (ANSAmed) – DAMASCUS, MARCH 16 – A Syrian writer and human rights activist, who has been in prison several times for publicly asking for political reforms in the country that has been ruled by the Baath regime for forty years, was sentenced to three years [...]

A Saudi judge has ordered a woman should be jailed for a year and receive 100 lashes after she was gang-raped, it was claimed last night. The 23-year-old woman, who became pregnant after her ordeal, was reportedly assaulted after accepting a lift from a man. He took her to a house to the east of [...]

AP ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Security forces overran a militant camp on the outskirts of Pakistani Kashmir’s main city and seized an alleged mastermind of the attacks that shook India’s financial capital last month, two officials said Monday.