Guantánamo Uighurs now in Albanian limbo
A number of Uighurs released after four years in the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay have now spent a year in a squalid refugee centre in Albania, with few job prospects and little financial support. Few countries have been willing to offer the men asylum. Pressure from the Chinese government will also make it difficult for another 15 Uighurs, awaiting imminent release from Guantánamo, to find refuge.
US equipping Sunnis to fight former Qaida allies
In the west and central regions of Iraq, heart of the supposed "Sunni insurgency", US forces are equipping and training former Sunni insurgents to fight al-Qaida-affiliated militants in a bid to turn local and tribal groups against the presence of "foreign" Islamists.
A suicide car bomb in Baghdad's "triangle of death" has killed three US soldiers, as other bombs have killed dozens of Iraqi policemen.
Soon-to-be UK prime minister Gordon Brown is to meet with Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki in his first visit to Iraq since being confirmed as the next British premier.
Afghan leader dodges rocket attack
Afghan president Hamid Karzai survived the third assassination attempt on his life on Sunday when Taliban militants fired rockets at a building in which he was giving a speech.
Afghan forces claim to have killed 157 Taliban militants in the last ten days.
Trinidad group denies bomb plot link
Members of the Jamaat al Muslimeen, the "most-hardline" Islamist group in Trinidad and Tobago, have denied any connection between their organisation and a failed bomb plot in New York that has implicated several Islamists from the Caribbean. Though guilty of once trying to topple the Trinidadian government in a bloody, failed coup attempt, the group claims to have since "turned many corners".
Read more about Islam in Latin America and the Caribbean on the "Islam Awareness" site.
Baluchistan in focus
Al Jazeera correspondent Kamal Hyder journeys into the restive Pakistani province of Baluchistan to meet with separatist militants and speak with their leader. The Baluch have been waging a low intensity war for freedom for years, but with Pakistan suffering a series of crises at the moment, many fighters think the time is ripe to redouble their efforts.
Pakistan has arrested three suspected foreign militants, a Kyrgyz citizen and two German nationals, at a checkpoint on the Iranian border.
Al Qaida in India?
Police in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar have found a propaganda CD by a group claiming to be "al-Qaida fil Hind" (al-Qaida in India), with the aiming of launching a jihad beyond the borders of Kashmir into all of India. The emergence of the organisation is in keeping with a growing trend of militants in disparate places claiming to be part of an indigenous chapter of al-Qaida.
Lebanon violence continues
Five Lebanese were killed on Saturday as fighting between the army and Islamist militants in Palestinian refugee camps continued. Since fighting broke out on 20 May, over one hundred people have been killed.
Max Rodendeck charts Lebanon's struggles in the New York Review of Books.
Israel launches spy sattelite
Israel has launched a spy satellite to watch over Iran. Tel Aviv has long been convinced that Tehran seeks to facilitate the destruction of the Israeli state.
Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega was in Iran to meet with top Iranian officials and lodge his support for the creation of a "new world order".
Bombs and clashes in Turkey
A bomb blast outside a shop in Istanbul wounded at least 14 people. Turkish security forces believe that Kurdish separatists are behind the attack.
Ongoing fighting in the Turkish southeast between the army and Kurdish separatist fighters of the Kurdish Workers' Party has left several dead.
Muslim Brotherhood to contest upper-house elections
An Egyptian court has cleared members of the Muslim Brotherhood to participate in upcoming elections for the upper house, the Shura Council. Members of the ruling party had earlier petitioned the electoral commission to ban Brotherhood members from contesting Monday's election. The government of Hosni Mubarak has cracked down severely on the Brotherhood, with hundreds of the party's members in prisons across the country.
Philippine forces mount search for kidnapped priest
The Philippine military used spy drones and helicopters and sought the aid of US intelligence in its search of Muslim rebels who abducted an Italian Catholic priest in the restive of the south of the country.
Nairobi blast
A suspected suicide bomber exploded his device in the middle of a Nairobi street this morning, leaving at least one dead. Kenyan anti-terrorism police are investigating the attack, with suspicions pointing to either Islamist Somali militants or local criminal gangs.
Sri Lanka abuse probe inadequate
Foreign observers have cast doubt on a presidential commission probe into abuses by the Sri Lankan military and the rebel Tamil Tigers, claiming that the investigation is riddled with flaws and fails to meet international standards.
National religion battle in Thailand
Buddhist monks and other Thais rallied over the weekend to have Buddhism enshrined in the constitution as the national religion of Thailand. With ongoing violence in Thailand's predominantly Muslim south, such a move is only likely to alienate the country's religious minorities further.
Three school teachers, all Buddhist, were killed by gunmen in the south. Teachers are becoming an increasingly common target in the region.
Arms dealer jailed in Spain
Monzer al-Kassar, a Syrian arms dealer, has been put in a high-security prison Spain as he awaits extradition to the United States for allegedly trying to supply leftist Colombian rebel group Farc with weapons, a charge al-Kassar vehemently denies.
Two Colombian soldiers have been arrested for allegedly going on a killing spree on Sunday, slaying six unarmed civilians, including a child, in the south of the country.
Arab League funds African Union
The Arab League has donated $1 million to the African Union to abet the AU's operations across the continent, including in Somali and Darfur.
