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Russia is facing growing violence in Muslim regions on its southern rim. Islamic extremists seeking to create an independent Muslim state in the Caucasus regions are attacking security forces and ...

The incident at Moscow’s Historical Mosque on 26 September, when angry parishioners forced the release of one of their number who had been detained by OMON riot police, has made the capital’s Islamic ...

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A Russian Orthodox priest has sparked controversy with his provocative claim that Russian Muslims could be mobilized to commit violence against Christians. The statement was made as Moscow's Muslim ...

Muslims on Wednesday celebrate one of Islam's two main holidays, Eid al-Adha, or the Holiday of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the Rites of Hajj, the pilgrimage to the holy sites of Islam in Saudi ...

MOSCOW, 4th April, 2025 (WAM) -- Dr. Omar Habtoor Al Darei, Chairman of the General Authority of Islamic Affairs, Endowments and Zakat, has underscored the necessity of adhering to the tolerant values ...

Russia is mourning after the largest terrorist attack in years occurred in Moscow on the night of March 22, leaving over 143 people dead, according to the latest official figures. Islam Khalilov ...

MOSCOW — Russia’s interior ministry said Wednesday its agents had detained 15 radical Muslims in Moscow who belonged to a banned offshoot of the Al-Qaeda terror ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Tens of thousands of Muslim men have knelt shoulder-to-shoulder in prayer on the freezing streets of Moscow to celebrated the religious holiday of Eid al-Adha. Estimates of the number of ...