Los Angeles is home to the largest Iranian community outside Iran.

Muslims will soon welcome a new lunar year in what's known as the Hijri calendar.

Pakistan has condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for bombing Iran, less than 24 hours after saying he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for defusing a recent crisis with India.

The new travel ban on citizens of 12 countries that restricted access to people from seven others includes some exceptions.

More than 1.6 million Muslims are completing a core element of the Hajj, the symbolic stoning of the devil.

Saudi officials say they have stopped more than 269,000 Muslims without permits for the Hajj pilgrimage from entering Mecca.

Large numbers of Muslims converge once a year on Saudi Arabia to unite in a series of religious rituals and acts of worship as they perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that is one of the pillars of Islam.

Tunisians are embracing snails as a protein-packed alternative as the cost of red meat remains high.

The usual festive mood of Eid al-Fitr holiday to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan has been subdued in Indonesia this year as people grapple with soaring prices for food, clothing and essential goods.

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is drawing to an end and Muslims around the world will soon start celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

Authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew in parts of a western Indian city a day after communal clashes that were sparked by protests by Hindu nationalist groups demanding removal of the tomb of a 17th-century Muslim Mughal ruler.

Some restaurants and coffee shops in Syria were closed during the day as observant Muslims began fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.

As Ramadan approaches, keeping healthy fasting practices in mind can make the month more meaningful.

With Morocco’s sheep herds dwindling at an alarming rate, King Mohammed VI made a rare break with tradition by urging families to forgo buying sheep to sacrifice during the upcoming Eid Al-Adha.

Observant Muslims worldwide will soon be united in a ritual of daily fasting from dawn to sunset as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan starts.

Amnesty International is urging French lawmakers to reject a bill this week that would ban headscarves in all sporting competitions.

Tens of thousands of people have gathered on a riverbank near Bangladesh’s capital to listen to sermons by Islamic scholars at the Biswa Ijtema or global congregation of Muslim devotees.

The White House has announced what it called the first-ever national strategy to counter Islamophobia.

The Lebanese civilians most devastated by the Israel-Hezbollah war are Shiite Muslims, and many of them believe they are being unfairly punished because they share a religious identity with Hezbollah militants and often live in the same areas.

A senior Pakistani police officer says fighting between armed sectarian groups in the country's restive northwest has killed at least 37 people.

Just four years ago, most U.S. Muslim voters supported Democratic President Joe Biden.

Residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir are gearing up for their first regional election in a decade that will allow them to have their own truncated government, also known as a local assembly, instead of remaining under New Delhi’s direct rule.

A float in Sunday’s upcoming India Day Parade in New York City that celebrates a Hindu temple built over a razed mosque in India is being criticized as anti-Muslim.

Muslims in Asia are celebrating Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, one of the biggest holidays in the Islamic calendar.

Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca for the Hajj, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale.

For the first time in over a decade, 270 Syrians have traveled on a direct flight from Damascus to Saudi Arabia for the annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage, according to the Syrian Transportation Ministry.

The upcoming Paris Olympics are likely to draw new attention to France's ban on its athletes wearing hijabs.

The 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans.

The political power of Muslims is declining in the world's largest democracy.

India’s main opposition party has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators.”.

Some Muslim and Arab American leaders have grown frustrated with the outreach from President Joe Biden's White House as the war in Gaza drags on.

Muslims around the world are celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday and marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

The owners of a Malaysian convenience store chain and one of its suppliers were charged Tuesday with offending the religious feelings of Muslims after socks printed with the word “Allah” were found for sale on its shelves.

The British government has published an official definition of “extremism.”.

A U.S. Congress-mandated group cut short a fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia after officials in the kingdom ordered a Jewish rabbi to remove his kippah in public.

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk, began at sunrise Tuesday in much of Asia, a day after many Muslims in the Middle East began their fasts.

For Muslims around the world, Ramadan combines religious reflection and charity with festive celebrations as families gather for the evening meal breaking the fast.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has announced rules to implement a 2019 citizenship law that excludes Muslims, weeks before the Hindu nationalist leader seeks a third term in office.

In the heart of Istanbul, on top of the towering minarets that dot the city’s skyline, 68-year-old Kahraman Yildiz toils away at a craft that has illuminated the Muslim holy month of Ramadan for generations.

Officials in Saudi Arabia have declared the start of the fasting month of Ramadan after sighting the crescent moon Sunday night.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened a controversial Hindu temple that was built on the ruins of a razed historic mosque.

India’s top court has restored life prison sentences for 11 Hindu men who raped a Muslim woman during deadly religious rioting two decades ago.

Indonesian authorities have detected at least five boats packed tight with Rohingya refugees approaching the shores of Aceh province.

Two boats carrying more than 300 Rohingya Muslims, including emaciated women and children, have arrived at Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh after being adrift for weeks.

Aid groups and the United Nations say an estimated 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats adrift in the Andaman Sea could die if more is not done to rescue them.

Aid groups and the United Nations say an estimated 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats adrift in the Andaman Sea could die if more is not done to rescue them.

The Israel-Hamas war and its polarizing reverberations in America are straining some Muslim-Jewish interfaith relationships in the U.S. more than ever.

Almost 1,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have arrived by boat in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh in the last six days.

Dozens of conservative Muslims are calling for the cancellation of Coldplay’s concert this month in Indonesia.

The war between Israel and Hamas is raising fears about rising hostility across the United States.

Authorities say a 71-year-old Illinois man has been charged with a hate crime, accused of fatally stabbing a young boy and seriously wounded a woman because of their Islamic faith and the Israel-Hamas war.

In Muslim communities across the world, worshippers gathered at mosques for their first Friday prayers since Hamas militants attacked Israel, igniting the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

A lockdown has been imposed and security heightened in a city in southwest Nepal to prevent clashes between Hindus and Muslims.

French President Emmanuel Macron says public school students won’t get past the door if they show up dressed in long robes mainly worn by Muslims.

France’s education minister has announced a ban on long robes in classrooms starting with the new school year, saying the garments worn mainly by Muslims are testing secularism in the nation’s schools.

Police say a Muslim mob has attacked a Christian area in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, burning a church, damaging four others and demolishing a man's house after accusing him of desecrating Islam’s holy book.

An Indian court says officials can conduct a scientific survey of a 17th-century mosque in northern India to determine if it was built over Hindu temple.

The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says that if governments of Muslim-majority nations do not act against countries that allow desecration of the Quran, Muslims should “punish” those who facilitate attacks on Islam's holy book.

Millions of Shiite Muslims in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and around the world are commemorating Ashoura.

Thousands of people took to the streets in a handful of Muslim-majority countries to express their outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden.

A solemn peace march has started through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II.

Thousands of Muslims in Pakistan have held protests to denounce last week’s burning of the Islamic holy book in Stockholm following a call by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to “send a strong message to Sweden.”.

Muslim pilgrims are casting stones at pillars representing the devil during the final days of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

Muslims across Indonesia are celebrating Eid al-Adha, one of the biggest holidays in the Islamic calendar, with full meat-based feasts after fears of last year’s foot-and-mouth disease outbreak waned.

The Hajj pilgrimage has officially started in Saudi Arabia.

Over 1.8 million Muslims are making the Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi officials say close to 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in the country so far for the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

A Yemeni official says a commercial flight carrying more than 270 Yemeni Muslim pilgrims has left the rebel-held capital of Sanaa to Saudi Arabia, the first such flight in about seven years.

Officials say thousands of mourners have attended the mass funeral of seven minority Shiite teachers who were shot and killed at a school in northwestern Pakistan.

A far-right movement in Spain that is opposed to Muslims and immigrants has found a home on Twitter.

The holiday of Eid al-Fitr that follows the holy month of Ramadan has ushered in a day of prayers and joy for Muslims around the world.

Syed Mohammad Munir Abidi is convinced India is no longer the same country it once was for its minority Muslim citizens.

“Green Ramadan” initiatives in Indonesia and around the world promote an array of changes during the Muslim holy month, which has fasting and, in many cases, feasting elements as people gather around food to break their fasts.

A Minnesota man dedicated to giving Muslim children a sense of belonging and pride is reaching children across the globe with a special “Ramadan Camp.”.

Minneapolis will allow broadcast of the Muslim call to prayer in early mornings and late evenings, becoming the first major U.S. city to allow the announcement over speakers five times a day, year-round.

For UConn players Adama Sanogo, Samson Johnson and Hassan Diarra a traditional pregame meal before Saturday night’s national semifinal against Miami won’t be possible.

This year’s holy month of Ramadan coincides with the longest drought on record in Somalia.

The Lebanese government’s last-minute decision to delay the start of daylight saving time by a month until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan resulted in mass confusion.

Ramadan Mubarak!

The first daily fast of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has begun.

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins at sundown.

Ramadan falls on the ninth lunar month in the Islamic calendar and is believed to be the month in which the Holy Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad.

Millions of Muslims in Indonesia are gearing up to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, which is expected to start on Thursday, with traditions and ceremonies across the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country amid soaring food prices.

Muslim authorities in Saudi Arabia and several other Middle Eastern countries say this year’s fasting month of Ramadan will begin Thursday based on the expected sighting of the crescent moon.

A criminal court has imposed a $5.3 million fine on the Saudi BinLadin Group and sentenced seven people to prison over the collapse of a crane ahead of the 2015 hajj pilgrimage.

Officials say Pakistan’s police have arrested at least 50 suspects in a mob lynching of a man already detained on charges of blasphemy.

Angry protesters in several Middle Eastern countries have gathered to denounce the recent desecration of Islam’s holy book by far-right activists in Sweden and the Netherlands.

Outrage over a Quran-burning protest in Sweden produced a second day of protests in Turkey.

Jordan has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Amman to protest a move by Israeli police to block the Jordanian envoy from entering a volatile holy site in Jerusalem.

The last-minute decision to ban the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums in Qatar is the latest example of some of the tensions that have played out ahead of the tournament.

Somalia’s president says at least 100 people were killed in two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital and the toll could rise.

Hundreds of people have demonstrated in several parts of India to protest a recent government decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for gang raping a Muslim woman during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots.

Authorities have identified the fourth victim in a series of killings of Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the deaths sent ripples of fear through Islamic communities nationwide.

The new “Ms. Marvel” series on Disney+ has resonated with Muslims in the West.

On Eid al-Adha, an important religious holiday in Islam, Ukrainian Mufti turned fighter Said Ismahilov asked fellow Ukrainian muslims to pray for victory and for those still living in areas under Russian occupation.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world were raising their hands to heaven and offering prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia.

A million pilgrims from across the globe are gathering in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform the initial rites of the hajj.

Muslim pilgrims are converging on Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca for the largest hajj since the coronavirus pandemic severely curtailed access to one of Islam’s five pillars.

Tensions are high in India’s western Udaipur city.

Protests are erupting in many Indian cities against the demolition of homes and businesses belonging to Muslims in what critics call a growing pattern of “bulldozer justice” aimed at punishing activists from the minority group.