The death toll from a suicide bombing at a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has risen to 100, a medical official says, as the South Asian country faces a mounting security challenge from armed groups.

Speaking during the Friday prayer, this religious scholar emphasized the importance of the right to work and education for women and girls.

Renowned religious scholar Muhammad Rafi Usmani passed away after a prolonged illness on Friday. He was 86.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said his supporters’ “long march” towards the capital demanding early elections will re-start on Tuesday after it was disrupted by an attempt on his life by a gunman.

Israeli soldiers have shot dead two Palestinians during a military raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank…

A senior member of the Taliban-run government in Afghanistan has called on the country’s new rulers to reopen schools for girls beyond the sixth year…

Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the Sunni Muslim world’s most influential religious scholars, has died.

Thirty Palestinian political prisoners being held in Israeli jails have begun an open-ended hunger strike to…

A month after being shifted to newly-constructed home, 50-years-old Saeeda Bibi, along…

A 19-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by the Israeli army early Monday in Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.