Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq, has implemented a curfew in response to violent clashes between rival demonstrations involving Kurdish and...

J&K administration allowed the Muharram procession in Srinagar after nearly 30 years, marking a significant development. The procession, wh...

The Muslim leaders have also taken strong exception to the statements of Shia Central Waqf Board chairman Wasim Rizvi and termed them as un...

The decision will be conveyed to the Supreme Court by December 5, a day before the 25th anniversary of the demolition of the medieval-era s...

"Convictions cannot be based on confessions obtained under torture and ill-treatment, or trial proceedings that fall short of international...

The Khilafat movement of the 1920s was massively Indians are happy with the lifting of UN sanctions on Iran after its nuclear deal with the...

The training failures highlight a massive contradiction that is crippling Obama's strategy to combat Sunni extremist group the Islamic Stat...

ISIS is successfully marketing its "caliphate," an Islamic empire that aims to unite world's Muslims under a single religious entity.

Obama administration argues, arming and training Sunnis to defend their own territory is the only viable way to beat back Islamic State.

The Iraqi army, which the US has tried to build up into a viable fighting force, fled when faced with dozens of car bombs in the provincial...

Sharif today said his government is "not in a hurry" to join the Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen, as he sought parliamentary b...

Opposition PDP MLA in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly and prominent Shia cleric, Moulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari died following prolonged illness.

Around 40 Indians working on projects near the Iraqi city of Mosul were kidnapped by suspected ISIS militants when they were being evacuate...

Sworn enemies just over a year ago, the US & Iran are becoming unlikely allies in the fight against Sunni extremists in Iraq who are backed...

Ashraf had asked intelligence agencies to explain a breach of security by an explosives-laden truck used by the terrorists during the attac...

Pakistan Premier Raja Pervez Ashraf today sacked Balochistan government and imposed Governor's Rule in the troubled southwestern province.

It is the larger picture, the shape the civil war in Syria is acquiring, that can have severe repercussions across West Asia and the rest o...