Muhammad

The United States has reached a plea agreement with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, and two other defendants, the US Department of Defense announced on Wednesday. Mohammed, also known as KSM, was apprehended in Pakistan in 2003 for his alleged role in the terrorist attacks.

The top Greek diplomat will also meet with the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh

The administrative committee that will oversee the operation of Athens's first mosque has presented Moroccan-born Zaki Mohammed as its candidate for the position of imam to Education Minister Costas Gavroglou, Kathimerini understands.

The Turkish New York-based educational Turken Foundation has purchased the home of legendary American-Muslim boxer Muhammad Ali to turn the estate into an educational camp and build a museum in Ali's honor.

Turkish Muslims will celebrate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad in the week starting Nov. 29 this year following a date change made by the new chair of the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), Ali Erbaş.

Education Ministry officials have admitted that none of the 18 officials in charge of controlling the text books saw an obscure caricature included in a Turkish language school book.

Some of the first visitors at a newly opened Quran exhibition on Oct. 22 said they hoped the display would help overcome prejudice and spread awareness about Islam.      

"This exhibit will really help bring people together and it represents how much Islam has to offer American culture," said Doug Kempner, a 26-year-old from Washington D.C.

At the end of the Organization of Istanbul Cooperation's (OIC) Istanbul summit, our Turkish president declared that "terrorism and violence are the two biggest issues facing the Muslim world."  I don't agree, (and this is not the first time that I don't agree with the president). I think terror and violence are only two results of the issues that the "Muslim world" is facing.

A businessman is hoping to navigate the tricky business of recycling Qur'ans in Pakistan as any purported desecration of Islam's holy text could lead to the most severe of penalties Deep inside the dry, biscuit-colored mountains surrounding Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta lies an unexpected treasure: a honeycomb of tunnels bursting with cases of Qur'ans, hidden safe from desecration.

Police in France issued another appeal to identify one of the Paris attackers, who is believed to have helped in completing the bombing at the Stade de France by posting a photo of the man on Twitter, asking the public to provide any information that could help identify him.

He was among the three people who died in the attacks outside the national stadium.