FILE PHOTO: Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev speaks during a news conference following his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin (not pictured) in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia April 5, 2017.

A 50-year-old suspect, Ramoni Adeleke, arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos State Police Command for allegedly duping many people has said that he shaved his long ...

DUSHANBE -- Tajik officials have launched a new campaign against men with long beards in which police detain them in public, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. Maruf Odina, imam of the Al-Bukhari Mosque, ...

If there were a prototype for an American-style imam, Adeel Zeb might be it. In Koran study groups, the 28-year-old volunteer chaplain at American University weaves in references to U.S. Rep. Keith ...

TASHKENT (Reuters) - An Uzbek imam has been sacked after urging President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to lift a ban on personal religious symbols such as women's hijabs and beards for men, in a case showing ...