Morocco’s main Islamist party said it had won more than 100 out of 395 seats in parliament, describing the polls as a “historic turning point.”

Pakistan has announced that it intends to complain to UN Human Rights Council about non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes in its northwestern tribal belt near the border with Afghanistan.

Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief, wanted internationally on charges of crimes against humanity and the last major fugitive at large after the fall of the former Libyan leader, has been arrested, according to the National Transitional Council (NTC).

Muammar Gaddafi’s son and one-time heir apparent Saif al-Islam has been detained in the southern desert, Libya’s interim justice minister and other officials have said.

As fast and modern life creeps into the Indonesian homes, busy parents are resorting to religious schools to guarantee a good religious upbringing for their children, the Jakarta Post reported on Friday, November 18.

Suspected US drones have fired four missiles at two compounds in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing 16 people, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

Mullah Omar, leader of the Afghan Taliban, has urged his fighters to avoid civilian casualties in their fight against the government and foreign forces.

At least 14 people, including foreign forces, were killed when a Taliban car bomber struck a US-run Nato convoy travelling through the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday.

Following its resounding electoral victory this week, Tunisia’s Islamic-leaning Ennahda party is planning to propose a member for the post of the country’s prime minister.

The body of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was buried Tuesday, October 25, in a secret place in the desert.