Negotiators have extended talks on Iran’s nuclear programme for a comprehensive agreement until July 2015 after failing to meet a Monday deadline, diplomats said.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has resigned, U.S. officials said on Monday, ending nearly two years in the Pentagon’s top job after a bruising mid-term election that undermined President Barack Obama’s Democrats in Congress.

News agencies reported this morning that weeks ago President Obama signed an order, kept secret until now, to authorize continuation of the Afghan war for at least another year. The order authorizes U.S. airstrikes “to support Afghan military operations in the country” and U.S. ground troops to continue normal operations, which is to say, to […]

Former Jamaat-i-Islami emir Syed Munawar Hasan tried on Saturday to clarify as well as praise the concept of jihad, saying it had nothing to do with terrorism and militancy.

Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen says it has killed 12 Houthi fighters in the central city of Radaa, a claim denied by the Shia group, which continues to move southwards after its takeover of the capital Sanaa in September.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has launched a major attack on the Iraqi city of Ramadi, capital of the troubled western province of Anbar, security officials have said, resulting in the killing of at least 20 soldiers.

Recent police raids targeting Kenya mosques have outraged the country’s Muslim community, seeing authorities as “crossing the red line” and demanding a unified stance to end such tactics of targeting Muslim places of worship in the name fighting terrorism.

Israeli security forces have destroyed the East Jerusalem home of a Palestinian who carried out a suicide car attack in October that left two people dead, the military said, as pitched street battles raged in the aftermath of an attack on a synagogue in West Jerusalem that killed five Israelis.

Syrian aircraft dropped crude explosives on a neighborhood in the northern Aleppo province on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people, including children, and wounded another 20, activists said.

A car bombing on Tuesday killed a leading member of Yemen’s powerful Sunni Al-Islah party whose supporters have been battling Shiite militias, a security official said.