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 […]

Iran-Sanandaj: The Iranian intelligence officials in ‘Kurdistan’ have detained a prominent Sunni activist, Shaikh Hashem Hussein-Panahi from his home in Sanandaj, Kurdistan.

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

The outstanding leader of the Iranian Sunni community, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Ismaeelzahi, has sent a blunt letter to the newly-appointed General Secretary of the state-run Forum for Proximity of Islamic Sects, Ayatollah Mohsen Araki. Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunnah in Zahedan reminded the G.S some of the important issues and problems of the Sunni community in Iran.

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.

Iran-Zahedan: The eminent Islamic scholar in Iran, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Ismaeelzahi, put the right of the veto for some particular countries unjust and despotic that should be taken off in his latest Friday speech in the Grand Makki Masjid of Zahedan.

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.

Iran, Tehran- The Iranian security officials have banned Sunni Muslims of Tehran to establish Eid Al-Fitr prayer for the third consecutive year on Sunday, August 19, 2012.