Islamic Scholar Gives Up U.S. Post for Lack of Visa
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A prominent Swiss-based Islamic scholar  said Tuesday he had given up plans to teach at a leading U.S.  university after waiting months in vain for a visa from the  State Department.
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ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN -- The US aircraft carrier that led a massive tsunami relief operation steamed away from the disaster zone yesterday after a mission that helped repair America's bruised image in the world's most heavily populated Muslim nation.
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WASHINGTON - A U.S. citizen held since late 2001 as an enemy combatant will be sent back to Saudi Arabia under an agreement between the Justice Department and his lawyers...
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A U.S. judge heard arguments on Thursday on whether a prominent Swiss Muslim academic had rightfully been refused entry into the United States because he gave money to a Palestinian support group.
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A leading Muslim scholar who was barred from the United States at the request of the Department of Homeland Security has reapplied for the right to work there, saying Wednesday he has always condemned terrorism.
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Ex-pop singer Cat Stevens, a Muslim, will be deported to Britain after being denied entry to the United States because his activities could be "linked to terrorism," a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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An Iranian-American academic returned to the United States on Thursday after being detained for eight months &#151; nearly half that time in Tehran's notorious Evin prison &#151; on charges that she had endangered national security.
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Supporters of the anti-American cleric say reports of his flight to Iran are false. But clerics in Najaf tell TIME there are signs he has left the city
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U.S.-Iranian reporter Parnaz Azima has been given her passport back and is free to depart, after months of being prevented from leaving Tehran, her employer and Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Tuesday.
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In limbo since the State Department invoked an anti-terrorism law to keep him out of the country, Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan resigned his faculty appointment at the University of Notre Dame this week.
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The United States has reached agreement with a US citizen who has held as an &quot;enemy combatant&quot; for more than two years without charges to send him to Saudi Arabia, officials said Wednesday.
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A controversial Muslim scholar has been declined a visa to visit Britain, the Home Office said Thursday, triggering criticism from Islamic groups.
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home in the United States for breaking sanctions, rejecting his demand for protection as a political refugee. His lawyers responded on Tuesday by appealing against the decision, which they described as &quot;very regrettable&quot;.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- The government has rejected the visa application of one of Europe's best-known Muslim intellectuals, saying that he supported a terrorist group. His attorneys allege that the United States is using charitable donations he made as a pretext for stifling his views.
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A lawyer accused of aiding terrorism  through her defense of a militant Muslim cleric on Tuesday  denied charges that she lied to the U.S. government by signing  a promise to honor rules aimed at stopping her client from  inciting violence.
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The United States has denied entry to   four Egyptian Muslim clerics sent to Florida to officiate at   religious events during the approaching fasting month of   Ramadan, Cairo airport officials said on Friday.
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An Iranian-based cleric who had been the former spiritual guide of radical anti-U.S. Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr has distanced himself from his former pupil's actions, his Web site said Sunday.