Israel is taking steps towards over-policing and increasing its surveillance of the Palestinian population inside its 1949-borders under the pretext of curbing the high crime rate within the community, Palestinians say.

The Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia operated at full capacity on Sunday…

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs has said girls will be allowed to return to secondary schools soon.

At least 47 people have been killed and 70 others wounded after an explosion went off inside a Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar, according to a Taliban official.

Afghanistan’s new Taliban government has warned US and European envoys that continued attempts to pressure them…

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement has announced the start of a mass hunger strike by its prisoners held in Israeli jails…

Abdul Qadeer Khan, revered as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, has died at 85.

At least 20 people have been killed and more than 200 wounded after an earthquake struck Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, local officials said, with rescue teams attempting to clear debris and gain access to the area.

At least five civilians have been killed in an explosion outside the Eid Gah Mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, according to a Taliban interior ministry spokesman.

At least nine people were killed in Oman and Iran on Sunday as Tropical Cyclone Shaheen pummelled parts of their coastlines.