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Pakistani officials said Saturday that they will use their enhanced Anti-Terrorism Act to try over 100 members of militant Islamic factions detained in the Punjab province this weekend. The crackdown comes shortly after the revelation that the bombers implicated...

Italy and France announced new security measures Friday designed to combat terrorism following the recent London bombings . Although neither nation has been the target of Islamic terrorists, both have tightened security on transit systems and are investigating...

According to a working draft of the new Iraqi constitution obtained Tuesday by the New York Times, Islamic law would play a strong role in the Iraqi legal and political system and women's rights would be cut back. Under...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani announced Tuesday that the country's constitution is in its final stages and could be finalized by the end of July, ahead of the August 15 deadline . The early...

UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women Yakin Erturk said Monday that the difficulties faced by Afghani women, from abusive child marriages to public executions ordered by local councils, are still dramatic problems that...

French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy stated Friday that France will continue to punish anyone preaching militant Islam in France with deportation. For over a year now, France has formally embraced a deportation policy for anyone using Islam...

The Pakistan government Friday asked the Supreme Court of Pakistan to rule on a controversial Islamic law passed Thursday by the conservative Islamist legislature of the country's North West Frontier Province . President General...

Leading Thursday's international brief, Pakistan's North West Frontier Province has passed a controversial law reminiscent of Afghan regulatons under the former Taliban regime that will allow the government to monitor individuals' compliance with Islamic...

Ali al-Timimi , an Islamic scholar from Fairfax, Virginia, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after he was convicted of soliciting others to levy war against the US, inducing others to aid the...

Italian police executed 200 search warrants across the country Wednesday, searching for illegal arms and explosives, the public security department for the Italian Interior Ministry announced. The raids did not lead to any...