Unexpected elevation of Mullah Fazlullah to the position of chief of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is likely to change things in the country’s troubled northwestern region.

Five people have been killed by two drone strikes in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the country’s interior ministry says.

Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever to hit land, has devastated the central Philippine city of Tacloban, killing at least 100 people and destroying most houses in a surge of flood water and high winds, officials said.

An additional sessions judge submitted a written order granting the release of former president Pervez Musharraf in the murder case of cleric Ghazi Abdul Rasheed during the Lal Masjid operation.

The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, says a Swiss forensic report obtained by al-Jazeera.

Egypt’s first freely elected President Mohamed Morsi, who was ousted by the army last July 3, has spent his first night in Alexandria Borg Al-Arab jail, praying and reciting the Noble Qur’an.

The first underground mosque has been constructed in Turkey’s Buyukcekmece district in Istanbul, the building that has won the first place in the World Architecture Fest competition for religious places.

If I have the chance to write another version of the Holy Qur’an, I would accomplish it in half the time,” says Egyptian calligrapher Taher Emara, on the subject of his completion of the unique “Al-Faisal version” of the Holy Qu’ran.

Some 9.3 million people in Syria – or about 40% of the population – now need outside assistance, UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has said.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Monday confirmed an image released on the social media of its slain leader Hakimullah Mehsud captured just before his burial.