At least 100 people were wounded and several others were arrested in clashes between demonstrators and security forces in the  capital on Saturday over a state of emergency in place since 1992, Al Arabiya TV reports.

ZAHEDAN- Talking to a large number of worshipers, the eminent Sunni leader Shaikh Abdul Hameed warned the rulers who do not fulfill the public demands by exercising injustice stances.

MASHHAD: The Iranian Intelligence Ministry officials summoned Shaikh Muhammad Mowahhed Fadheli on late Sunday, 16th January 2011 to Mashhad and asked him to quit rank of khateeb in Taybad city of Khorasan Razawi province.

All ministers in Tunisia’s interim government have on Thursday resigned from the ruling party of the ousted president, state TV reported, after demands the RCD party be stripped of power or dissolved.

Two US-led soldiers have been killed in an attack in Afghanistan, bringing the number of foreign forces killed in the Afghan war in 2011 more than 20.According to a Press TV correspondent, one of the soldiers was killed in the north on Thursday and another one lost his life in the south on Wednesday, the […]

KURDISTAN: The prominent Kurdish Sunni scholar Mamousta Mullah Muhammad Azizi passed away on Sunday, 16th January in Kurdistan, Iran. He was 80.He was laid to rest on late Monday, 17 January 2011 in his ancestral area, Baneh, Kurdistan of Iran. A large number of people including ulama and students of seminaries attended the funeral prayers.

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday.Fears of major damage in the remote area eased when the U.S. agency revised an initial estimate that the quake was very shallow and said it probably centred at a depth of 52 miles (83 km), 55 km (34 miles) west of […]

At least five people have been killed and several others wounded in an unauthorized US drone attack in the troubled northwestern Pakistan.The non-UN-sanctioned attack took place in a village near the town of Miranshah in the North Waziristan tribal belt.

The announcement of a new ‘unity government’ by Mohamed Ghannouchi, the Tunisian prime minister, has been met with anger by some protesters, who say too many members of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s party remain in power.

Security forces in Sudan have arrested opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi from his home in Khartoum, al-Turabi’s Popular Congress Party spokesman told Al Jazeera.Monday’s arrest comes a day after al-Turabi’s party called for a “popular revolution” if the Sudanese government did not reverse price increases.