A suicide bomber detonated explosives near the heavily barricaded NATO headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, killing six civilians, NATO and local officials said.

Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s president, has told an Arab League conference that “change” of government is needed in violence-wracked Syria and that time should not be wasted “speaking of reform”.

CAIRO – A new British TV program about the history of Islam is sparking a heated controversy in Britain, amid accusations to the author of ignoring historical evidences on the origins of the Islamic faith.

Wrapping up a new episode of Gujarat massacre in which hundreds of Muslims were killed, an Indian court sentenced a former Indian state minister to 28 years in jail on Friday, August 31.

Rebel forces in the northern province of Aleppo announced the formation of the Revolutionary Transitional Council in a statement aired on Al Arabiya on Friday.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has said it is an “ethical duty” to support the Syrian people against the “oppressive regime” in Damascus.

The Gaza Strip will not be “liveable” by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to improve water supply, power, health, and schooling, according to the United Nations’ most comprehensive report on the Palestinian territory.

Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunnah in Zahedan, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Ismaeelzahi, talked of justice and equanimity in his latest Friday discourse on 24 August 2012.

A total of 206 people, including at least 20 children have been killed by Syrian regime forces on Friday in heavy shelling of opposition held areas in the Damascus suburbs several districts of Aleppo and Deir Ezzour, the activist group Local Coordination Committees (LCC) reported.

A Free Syrian Army officer has told Al Arabiya his resistance group was responsible for an attack on government headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday.