An Iraqi intelligence team has hunted down and killed two senior al-Qaeda leaders, Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, has said.

‘One of the most important responsibilities and duties of any religious government is to pave the way for offering prayers. Unfortunately some officials who are intellectually deviants in fact they impede the establishment of prayers in some areas. Any justification is not realized in such practices .certainly it is nothing except intellectual deviation and narrow-mind.’ […]

The Taliban is claiming victory in eastern Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley following the withdrawal of US forces from the remote outpost.

Hamas and Fatah have joined crowds of Palestinians in calling on Israel to free thousands of Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails.

An explosion inside an Afghan army base close to Kabul’s airport on Monday killed one soldier and wounded two others, an official said.

The adage that ignorance is bliss could not be farther from the truth when seriously put into practical application. Throughout the annals of time, what great accomplishments has ignorance made? What great empires and what marvels of science and technology now bear witness to ignorance’s strength and power? That’s right, none. Nothing of true worth […]

KOHAT: At least seven people were killed and 26 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in the northwestern Pakistani city of Kohat on Sunday, police said.

Baghlan: At leas seven Afghan and three NATO soldiers were killed and a dozen were injured in the Taliban’s rocket strikes targeting one tank and one vehicle of the enemy during the fighting erupted between Afghan Taliban and combined puppet soldiers of ANA and NATO invaders, on Saturday.

Khobar, SAUDI ARABIA (Agencies) Saudi Arabia said it would set up a scientific centre for civilian nuclear and renewable energy to meet rising demand for power and desalinated water, state news agency SPA said on Saturday.

Hassan al-Turabi is an influential Sudanese political leader and a prominent Muslim scholar whose long-running power struggle with Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, shows no signs of ending.