At least 44 people died when two buses collided near the Iranian city of Qom, say local news reports.

      Asif Ali Zardari, one of the most powerful civilian presidents the country has ever had, is set to vacate Aiwan-i-Sadr on Sunday after holding the office for a record five years.

      Pakistan freed a group of Afghan Taliban on Saturday in an attempt to improve its troubled ties with its South Asian neighbour, but risked angering Afghanistan further by not handing them over directly to the Kabul authorities.

      The United Nations Children’s Fund has warned that almost two million Syrian children have dropped out of school, appealing to the international community for funds to provide these children with facilities, teachers and supplies to continue their education.

      Afghan officials say an apparent Nato airstrike has killed 15 people, nine of them civilians, including women and children, in an eastern province where the Taliban are strong.

      Scores of worshippers suffered gas inhalation on Friday after Israeli police stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following the weekly prayers and clashed with worshippers.

      Crossing Pakistan in long-distance trips every day, hundreds of thousands of Muslim commuters will soon have their long-demanded prayer section as railway authorities have launched a plan to redesign all trains to accommodate Muslim worshippers.

      The foreign relations committee of the US Senate has approved a resolution authorising the use of force against the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad for its alleged use of chemical weapons.

      Former Syrian Defense Minister General Ali Habib, a prominent member of President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect, has defected and is now in Turkey, a senior member of the opposition Syrian National Coalition told Reuters on Wednesday.

        At least 60 people have been killed in a series of car bomb attacks and shootings in mainly Shia districts of Iraq’s capital Baghdad, officials say.