Islam

Sitting in my suburban American kitchen, it is easy to feel that Saudi Arabia is a world away, that events at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul — as gruesome as they now seem to have been — have little to do with me.

Sitting in my suburban American kitchen, it is easy to feel that Saudi Arabia is a world away, that events at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul — as gruesome as they now seem to have been — have little to do with me.

A Minnesota Democratic candidate for Congress who is poised to become the first Somali-American elected to the U.S. House has denounced claims that she married her brother and committed immigration fraud as "disgusting lies," and says allegations of campaign finance violations are politically motivated.

A senior American diplomat briefed the leader of Iraq's Chaldean Catholics on U.S. development aid Wednesday after the cardinal accused the United States of failing to help rebuild Christian villages devastated by the Islamic State group.

A man convicted of torching a South Texas mosque last year has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison.

The Latest on a complaint that a Muslim woman renewing her Hawaii driver's license was discriminated against (all times local): 4 p.m. Hawaii County officials say they were following U.S. requirements when they issued a temporary driver's license to a Muslim woman who wears a hijab.

A Maryland councilman has shared a series of posts that have been perceived by some as being Islamophobic and xenophobic.

State police say a security guard at the Pennsylania compound of a Turkish-born Muslim cleric fired a shot at an "unwanted person" outside the gate.

The leader of a Muslim advocacy group on Thursday described an attack ad that asserts that Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill supports teaching about Islam in school as "blatantly Islamophobic" and said he hopes McCaskill's opponent will condemn it.

A rural Texas town council has approved plans for a Muslim cemetery, three years after the project was met with derision and claims it could be a precursor to a mosque or an extremist training center.