Myanmar security forces have killed, raped or carried out mass arrests of Rohingya Muslims after deadly sectarian riots in the northeast in June, a rights group has said, adding the authorities had done little to prevent the initial unrest.

Fears of attacks by US drones are scaring away many Pakistani Muslims in the restive tribal belt from performing the Tarawih (nightly prayers) during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Amnesty international has slammed the increasing human rights abuses and arbitrary detention of Muslims in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state.

Separated for years from their beloved ones, hundreds of Kashmiris marched on Sunday, June 10, to demand withdrawal of Indian and Pakistani troops from the disputed Himalayan region.

A suicide blast in eastern Afghanistan has killed at least four French soldiers.

The city of Quetta, plagued by sectarian violence and a separatist insurgency, suffered a deadly attack outside a seminary on Thursday, which left 14 people, including five children, dead and more than 48 others wounded.

A local Afghan official has said that 17 civilians have been killed in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan.

A group of Muslims from the Republic of Tajikistan started a long journey on foot to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj.

Two NATO soldiers have been killed and six others wounded in a rocket attack on their base in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Kunar, an Afghan official with NATO forces has said.

US-led forces have admitted that at least six Afghan civilians were killed in their last week airstrike in the country’s troubled southern province of Helmand.