Unknown armed men have shot dead Mufti Ihtisham-ul-Haq Asiabadi, an eminent Baloch scholar and leader of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) along with his son in Kech district of Baluchistan, Pakistan.

India: A school in Haryana has been fined Rs 5 lakh by a panchayat for organising a special assembly marking Eid, which led to protests and threats. The panchayat also ordered Green Dales Public School to get rid of Muslim staff and students, make its girl students switch to salwar kameez, and banned it from […]

At least 15 people were killed and scores injured in a suicide bombing in north-eastern Iraq on Monday, according to an Iraqi police officer.

Twin explosions targeting a large demonstration by members of Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazara minority in Kabul have killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 230, officials have said.

Brazil’s Muslim community on Friday voiced support for an open investigation into suspected terrorists who officials say were planning attacks at the upcoming Olympic games.

Saudi Arabia’s air defense system has destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Saturday, security sources told the Arabic website of Al Arabiya News Channel.

Turkey has formally charged 99 generals and admirals in connection with the weekend’s thwarted coup attempt – a significant chunk of the country’s military top brass.

Dozens of civilians have been killed in US-led air strikes against areas in Syria held by the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS), a monitoring group said.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators came out on the streets of Turkey’s capital Ankara and other cities to show support for the goverment in the wake of a failed coup that grabbed world attention.

Around 50 soldiers involved in an attempted military coup in Turkey surrendered on one of the bridges across the Bosphorus in Istanbul on Saturday, abandoning their tanks with their hands raised in the air, live footage showed.