KABUL: Eight women were killed and eight women wounded in a NATO air strike east of Kabul, an Afghan official said Sunday, adding that an investigation had been ordered.

Six U.S. fighter jets were destroyed and two significantly damaged when insurgents stormed a heavily fortified Afghan base where Britain’s Prince Harry is deployed on Friday, a NATO spokesman said.

More than 310 workers have been killed and several others injured in separate fire incidents at two factories in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore and the southern city of Karachi.

Factory fires that broke out in two major cities in Pakistan have killed at least 80 people and injured dozens more, including some who had to leap from windows to escape the flames, officials and survivors have said.   Workers recounted on Wednesday how their colleagues were trapped behind blocked exits, and firefighters said that […]

An explosion near the US consulate in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar has killed at least three people, police say.

Adding to Tajik Muslims struggle for hijab, women in the ex-Soviet Muslim-majority country are facing health problems from low-cost headscarves imported from China as the government continues its crackdown on the religious outfit.

Three troops killed in latest ‘green-on-blue’ attack in which uniformed Afghans turn weapons against allied forces.

Muslims in Southeast Asian are among the most devout in the world, being the most enthusiastic followers of the five pillars of Islam, including Zakah, prayers and fating, a new survey has found.

A roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province has injured 4 Australian soldiers, one of whom is in a critical situation and sent to Germany for treatment, local reports say.

Libya’s National Transitional Council has handed over power to a new assembly in a symbolic move marking the first peaceful transition after more than 40 years of rule by the late Muammar Gaddafi.