A huge number of students at Pakistan madrassahs have been offered a golden chance to create a better future after a decision by a state-owned university offering its affiliation to the country’s religious seminaries and bringing hundreds of thousands of students to mainstream education.

A series of car bomb attacks has killed at least 25 people and wounded 80 in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, officials say.

Akhdar Brahimi has announced his resignation from his position as the UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, largely out of frustration at Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s plans to hold an election in June.

An explosion and fire in a Turkish coal mine killed 201 people and the death toll could rise with hundreds more still trapped, the country’s energy minister has said.

An influential Qatar-based cleric whose sermons have caused tension between Gulf states said on Sunday that Egyptian presidential front runner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will only bring downfall to the country.

A Sunni Iraqi MP claimed on Sunday that government forces are using barrel bombs in shelling the flashpoint city of Fallujah.

Taliban militants launched a wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Monday, the first day of their declared summer offensive, targeting the international airport and the United States’ biggest military base near Kabul.

Allegations are mounting that chemical weapons attacks in Syria last year have caused newborns to suffer from birth defects.

Militants have killed 20 Iraqi soldiers in an attack on a base near the northern city of Mosul, officials say.

Pakistan government has a good news for over 143,000 intended pilgrims who are reeling from an additional financial burden imposed by the Saudi government against mandatory food buying from a Saudi company during Hajj.