As many as 1.5 million external and domestic pilgrims are expected to perform hajj this year, the Saudi Central Hajj Committee was told.

A Pakistani Taliban faction and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have both claimed responsibility for the suicide attack at a hospital in Pakistan’s Quetta city that left at least 70 people dead.

Syria’s brutal conflict has now claimed the lives of more than 290,000 people, a monitoring group said on Monday, giving its latest death toll for the devastating five-year war.

At least 53 people were killed in a suicide bombing inside the Civil Hospital on Monday, police said. Many others were injured in the attack.

¬At least 10 people, including three children and four women, have been killed in air strikes on a hospital in northwestern Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province.

A major Syrian opposition body has announced that rebels have broken a government siege of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

More than 300 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday halted a hunger strike after Israel prison authorities agreed to end “humiliating” body searches and return recently transferred prisoners, a rights group said.

Human rights groups have condemned Israel’s approval of a new law allowing the imprisonment of children as young as 12 for “terrorist offences”, and which is expected to apply mostly to Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem. The “Youth Bill” allows authorities to imprison minors convicted of serious crimes such as murder, attempted murder or […]

A Russian transport helicopter was shot down in opposition rebel territory in northern Syria on Monday and all five crew and officers onboard were killed, the Kremlin said, in the deadliest single incident for the Russian military since its involvement in Syria’s civil war.

Seven religious parties in Balochistan have constituted a united religious front “Ethad- e-Milat Islamia” to end the sectarian hatred and religious intolerance in the province.