The Libyan security forces escorted by special forces are besieging al-Shaab court, to the south of Tripoli, in preparation to break into it in order to end the sit-in announced by members of the Muslim Brothers group since Wednesday morning.

The most effective way for the United States to combat international terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa is to maintain full diplomatic and military engagement with African countries so that they can individually and collectively protect themselves from terrorists, according to two foreign policy specialists.

An escalating revolt in western Sudan's Darfur region threatens to blindside international efforts backed by the United States, now near completion, to end a 21-year-old civil war between the Muslim Arab-dominated government in Khartoum and its predominantly black southern rivals...

Foreign-funded Islamic extremism was behind the burning of nine churches in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, a Christian leader said on Tuesday.

A few years ago reports of entire families being hacked to death by Islamic extremists were daily fare in the Algerian press.

The Sudanese Islamic opposition figure Hassan al-Turabi yesterday announced that the Sudanese authorities detained several officials from the People's National Congress party which he presides over.

CAIRO, February 14 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The U.S. army intelligence spied on a Texas University conference on Islam and then asked for a list of participants.....

Islam is based on established invariables and variables, with each boundaries being clearly defined and dileanted by the Holy Scriptures.

Yet analysts say the nearby war with Iraq may have reminded Bashir of his vulnerability as a Muslim dictator. There are other reasons to make peace, too. Sudan exports about 250,000 barrels of oil per day, creating about $2 billion in revenues last year. Stability could bring production up to 500,000 barrels a day.

According to one highly-placed source, this invasion of selected countries in Africa is designed to forcibly and quickly move them into the Global Eco