At least 14 people were killed by bomb blasts in Afghan cities on Thursday — including 10 at a mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, the second attack against a Shia target this week.

Israeli warplanes struck two sites belonging to Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza at dawn Thursday.

Prominent religious scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani has urged the Taliban government in Afghanistan to allow girls’ schools to reopen.

Israeli police have entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound as worshippers gathered for early morning prayer…

PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif was elected as the 23rd prime minister of Pakistan after 174 lawmakers voted in his favour after Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNAs boycotted the election.

Saudi Arabia has said it will allow one million people – from both inside and outside the kingdom – to perform the Hajj this year compared with only a few thousand local pilgrims over the past two years.

In a letter to the leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the most influential Iranian Sunni leader suggested Mullah Hebatullah Akhondzada to “take urgent measures” to reopen girls’ high schools as soon as possible in Afghanistan.

“Tarawih” prayers which Muslims perform every night during the holy month of Ramadan, are returning to Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia mosque…

Israeli forces have killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank including one suspected of carrying out a stabbing attack.

Cairo (AFP) – Radwa Helmi made history on Saturday as the first woman judge to sit on the bench of Egypt’s State Council, a top court in the Arab country.