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For the first time this week, finance ministers from UN Security Council member countries gathered at New York to come up with a set of proposals that may cut off sources of funding for the ISIS...

Legendary American boxer Muhammad Ali has urged politicians to help promote understanding about Islam and denounced all those who use the religion to advance their interests. In a statement, he also emphasized that inflicting violence on...

The United States must reject bigotry in all its forms, President Barack Obama emphasized Wednesday amidst anti-Muslim rhetoric by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Obama did not name Trump in a speech – commemorating 150th anniversary...

American Muslim organizations have said they are “appalled” at Wednesday’s mass shooting that killed at least 14 in San Bernardino, California, after a local Muslim couple, later killed in a shootout with police, was identified as...

Earlier this month, I witnessed screening of Journey into Europe, a new documentary produced by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, at an event hosted by the Pakistani Embassy....

The State Department has alerted Americans to possible risks of worldwide travels, saying current information suggests that ISIL (Da’esh), al-Qa’ida, Boko Haram, and other terrorist groups continue to plan terrorist attacks in multiple regions. The caution...

American Muslims gathered on the steps of Lincoln Memorial Friday to condemn the ISIS terror, and reinforce Islam’s message of peaceful coexistence. Standing against the backdrop of distinctively towering Washington Monument under a clear blue sky,...

While counterterrorism experts will work round the clock to analyze reasons and flaws that allowed suicide bombers to roam streets of Paris undetected and mount the deadly attacks, newest entrants in Europe – the Middle Eastern...

He has been called an unlikely ambassador and an improbable American. A lot of people still wonder who would have gone and lived under rickety makeshift shelters on the quake-hit hills of Pakistani part of Kashmir in 2005 –...

While top Republican contenders Ben Carson and Donald Trump are crying foul over press scrutiny of their presidential nomination campaigns, Jeb Bush is seemingly banking on media and planned attacks on Marco Rubio to resurrect his...