Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is a Shia Muslim cleric with the final say on all state matters Iran says it has closed a Tehran-based French institute over "sacrilegious" cartoons ...

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Charlie Hebdo regularly published cartoons and articles satirizing jihadists, and also drew caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. This has angered Islamic militant groups, partially because ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Turkey has vowed to take "legal, diplomatic actions" over a cartoon of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The cartoon depicts Turkey's president lifting the dress of ...

By publishing cartoons on the Russian Tu-154 plane crash ... the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo once again demonstrated what "democracy and freedom of speech" really is ...

MOSCOW, November 6. /TASS/. Russia's presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov referred to the Charlie Hebdo cartoons about the crash of the Russian plane in Egypt as blasphemy having ...

The trial of eight people accused of involvement in the beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty outside his school near Paris in 2020 by a radicalised man of Chechen origin started on Monday, and is ...

A definition of freedom," referring to Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine struck by a terrorist attack in 2015. Paty had conducted this exercise in class every year, without it ever provoking ...

The trial of eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who was ...