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A human rights group expressed concern for the safety of thousands of Muslims after revealing satellite images of a community reduced to ashes during a week of violence in Myanmar.

The Philippine government has reached a framework peace agreement with the country's largest Muslim rebel group, President Benigno Aquino says. The deal follows long negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to end a 40-year conflict that has cost more than 120,000 lives.

President Obama headed to Jakarta on Tuesday for a visit aimed at boosting U.S. security and trade ties with Indonesia, and using the most populous Muslim nation to reach out to the wider Islamic world.

Osama bin Laden called on Muslims around the world to mobilize to help victims of floods in Pakistan in what purported to be the second internet message from the al Qaeda leader in two days.

Authorities in a devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia's Aceh province have distributed 20,000 long skirts and prohibited shops from selling tight dresses as a regulation banning Muslim women from wearing revealing clothing took effect Thursday....

Arsonists in Malaysia struck at a convent school and a fifth church on Sunday amid rising tensions between majority Muslims and Christians over the use of the word "Allah" to describe the Christian God.

R&B star Beyonce Knowles has postponed a planned concert in Malaysia, the event's organizer said Monday, following accusations by Islamic conservatives that the show would be immoral....

Police in western China have detained another 319 people suspected of being involved in deadly ethnic unrest between Muslim minority ...

Communist Party official says state will seek the death penalty for those responsible for killing the 156 people who were victims of riots on July 5.

China's president cut short a G8 summit trip to hurry home Wednesday after ethnic tensions soared in Xinjiang territory, with sobbing Muslim women scuffling with riot police and Chinese men with steel pipes and meat cleavers rampaging through the streets.