Islamism

Moroccan women protested outside parliament on Tuesday demanding the resignation of Islamist premier Abdelilah Benkirane after he urged women to stay at home and look after their families.
      
"Benkirane get out! Morocco is not for you!" were some of the slogans chanted by the protesters, who numbered about 100, and also waved placards and frying pans.
      

More than 1,000 people -- at least three-quarters of them civilians -- were killed this month as Islamist militants swept through large swathes of northern and western Iraq, the United Nations said Tuesday.
      

Ultra-conservative Muslim clerics denounce football as millions turn to watch the World Cup games.

The Constitutional Court has served government a lesson in law, as well as in justice by ordering “Sledgehammer” retrial.

An Egyptian court sentenced 12 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death on June 18 on charges connected to the fatal shooting of a police general last year.

The Turkish government has updated its official terrorist organization list, removing the al-Nusra Front from the group listed under the title “al-Qaeda in Iraq.” However, the changes published in the Official Gazette on June 18 kept al-Nusra listed as a “terrorist organization.” 

Turkey's major opposition parties have nominated a single candidate for the upcoming presidential elections by choosing the former chief of an Islamic body.

By Nikos Xydakis

The conquest of Mosul by Sunni Islamist militants this week and the seizure of the Kirkuk oil hub by Kurdish forces show that Iraq is heading toward a breakup and that the borders of the Middle East country will sooner or later be redrawn. However, before such a breakup becomes reality, we may see the broader region dragged into the fighting.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government of Turkey is like a cat with nine lives. Anywhere in the world, any one of the major events this country lived through during last year would have taken down governments, kill the prospects of key bureaucrats and change the political climate.

Taliban militants disguised as security forces stormed Pakistan's busiest airport on June 8 and at least 27 people were killed in a night-long battle at one of the country's most high-profile targets.