World leaders have renewed their calls for a cessation of hostilities in Syria after meeting in Vienna, hoping to restart…
Three bombings in Baghdad have killed at least 70 people and wounded more than 100, police and medical sources say,…
Twenty-five Palestinian children were killed in the last three months of 2015 during a wave of anti-Israeli attacks and the…
Expressing his discontent over some 'illegal acts' in the armed forces, the outstanding Iranian Sunni leader asked the authorities in…
Police on Thursday arrested 15 Israeli rightwing activists who were planning to go to the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound without…
Bangladesh has executed Motiur Rahman Nizami, head of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami party, for war crimes committed during the 1971 war…
Air strikes on a camp for displaced people in Syria's Idlib province were almost certainly not accidental and likely amounted…
Israeli aircraft struck a Hamas facility in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday after alleged cross-border mortar fire, the Israeli…
The British Labour party's Sadiq Khan has been elected as London mayor by comfortably outrunning of his nearest rival. (more…)
A Danish adult education centre has banned the wearing of the niqab covering for Muslim females. (more…)