Two rebel groups that seized nothern Mali two months ago agree to merge and turn their territory into an Islamist state, both sides say.

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Mali rebels agree to Sharia state

African Union (AU) forces in Somalia say they have captured a strategic town near the capital, Mogadishu, after Islamist militants pulled out.

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Key Somali militant town ‘taken’

Abdelmonen Abol Fotoh, an independent moderate Islamist candidate for the Egyptian presidency, and one many tip to become the country's first freely elected leader, if he gets through this week's first round of voting, has been a busy man these last weeks.

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Religious pragmatist next Egypt leader?

Thousands of Somalis flee fighting as African Union troops advance on Afgoye, a stronghold near the capital of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.

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Thousands flee Somalia advance

Presidential election pits Islamists against secularists.

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Egypt Preps for Historic Vote

Somali government soldiers are among five people killed in two bomb attacks in the capital Mogadishu blamed on al-Shabab Islamist fighters.

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Bombs kill soldiers in Mogadishu

The UN chief Ban Ki-moon says that Islamist militants from al-Qaeda must be behind two recent devastating suicide car bomb attacks in Syria.

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Ban: Al-Qaeda behind Syria blasts

CAIRO — Had Egypt’s post-revolutionary political winds held steady, Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate, would have been coasting to victory in this month’s election. Instead, he’s running an underdog campaign. The group’s prodigious political machine, which turned the once-besieged opposition movement into the dominant force in parliament early this year, has to contend with an uncharismatic candidate and a shift in public opinion as many Egyptians have soured on the venerable Islamist organization. Read full article > >

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Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate an underdog in Egypt

Bangladeshi Islamist leader Ghulam Azam is charged by a special tribunal with alleged war crimes during the 1971 independence war with Pakistan.

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Bangladesh indicts Islamist chief

CAIRO — A year after an attack by ultraconservative Muslims raised the spectre of a wave of religious strife in Egypt, the Christian churches in Cairo’s Imbaba district have been repaired, with sturdy wooden rafters, fresh paint and portraits of the Virgin Mary and Jesus ready to be hung anew. But the deep wounds from those attacks and ensuing clashes, which left 12 dead, cannot be painted over. Read full article > >

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Coptic Christians fear rise of Islamists on eve of presidential elections

Nigerian police say they have arrested a senior commander of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the troubled northern city of Kano.

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‘Militant leader’ held in Nigeria

A video from a shadowy Islamist group, al-Nusra, says it carried out bomb attacks in the Syrian capital Damascus which killed 55 on Thursday.

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Islamists claim Damascus blasts

A British man accused of links to Somalia’s Islamist extremists appears in court at his trial for allegedly plotting a bomb attack in Kenya.

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Briton in court over Kenya plot

Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram posts a video saying it is responsible for last week’s bombing of a major newspaper and warns other media attacks.

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Boko Haram claims attack on paper

Gunmen killed at least 15 people and wounded many more on Sunday in an attack on a university theatre being used by Christian worshippers in Kano, a northern Nigerian city where hundreds have died in Islamist attacks this year.

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Attack on Christians in Nigeria Kills at Least 15: Witness