Iran's supreme leader is expected to lead the main weekly Muslim prayers in Tehran on Friday, after a traumatic month in which the country had appeared on the brink of war with the United States and...More
Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar left Moscow on Tuesday without signing a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending nine months of fighting, leaving the future of a fragile truce uncertain. The commander's...More
President Donald Trump circulated a fake image on Monday depicting congressional Democrats' top-ranked leaders in traditional Muslim attire in front of the Iranian flag, drawing criticism that he was...More
India's southern Kerala on Tuesday became the first state to legally challenge a new citizenship law that has triggered nationwide demonstrations. The Kerala government in its petition to the Supreme...More
Pain mixed with anger – an Iranian-Canadian student who lost his mother when Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner with 57 Canadian nationals onboard shares his grief. "Once you start to cope with the...More
President Donald Trump's embrace of anti-government protesters in Iran is another departure from his predecessors, who feared such overt support could backfire and inadvertently help hard-liners in...More
For all of the Trump administration's insistence that the threat of an “imminent'' attack led to the American drone strike on Iran's top general, U.S. officials behind the scenes say the strike was...More
Iran will punish all those responsible for the accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane, President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on Tuesday, adding that the "tragic event"...More
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims raised their hands and prayed for the welfare of the world on Sunday, wrapping up a three-day Islamic congregation near Bangladesh's capital. The Biswa Ijtema, or...More
Indian police baton-charged protesters on Sunday to stop them reaching Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cavalcade as nationwide protests against a bitterly disputed citizenship law entered a second...More
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and European Council President Charles Michel discussed Libya's conflict on Sunday amid intense international efforts to resolve the years-long feud in the...More
Braving the snow and cold, Abrar Ahmad, 18, is one of thousands of Kashmiris who regularly spend hours journeying on a packed train just so that they can go online as the region grapples with the...More
King Abdullah of Jordan on Monday warned that the Islamic State group was re-grouping and was once again on the rise in the Middle East. Months after the ousting of IS last year from their last...More
Iraqi officials fear economic "collapse" if Washington imposes threatened sanctions, including blocking access to a U.S.-based account where Baghdad keeps oil revenues that feed 90 percent of the...More
Iranian police and security forces fired both live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against the Islamic Republic's initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner,...More
Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Middle East's longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup and pulled his Arabian sultanate into modernity while carefully balancing diplomatic...More
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok visited the rebel bastion of Kauda in the South Kordofan region's Nuba Mountains on Thursday, the first senior Khartoum official to travel there since clashes...More
India's Supreme Court said on Friday that the indefinite shut-down of the Internet in Kashmir was unwarranted, rebuking the government for the communications lockdown imposed after it withdrew the...More
Concern mounted on Thursday in Iran over the whereabouts of the Islamic Republic's only woman to have won an Olympic medal, who is believed to want to settle in The Netherlands. Kimia Alizadeh...More
After bearing the brunt of jihadist dynamite and looting by thieves, the archaeological treasures of Afghanistan's Bamiyan province are facing a new and possibly more daunting threat: climate change...More
Unidentified planes struck targets in Syria near the border with Israel on Friday, reports said, triggering ‘‘a huge explosion'' amid soaring tensions in the region between the U.S. and Iran. The...More
Iranian newspapers proclaimed the country's attack on U.S. forces in Iraq to be "a dark night for Americans", and Washington's "first admission of failure in history". On the bustling streets of...More
Iran has invited Boeing to take part in the investigation into a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week at a time of soaring tensions between Washington and Tehran, killing all 176 people...More
The speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Mohammed al-Halbusi, on Wednesday condemned a salvo of retaliatory Iranian missile strikes on Iraqi bases housing U.S.-led troops as a "violation of Iraqi...More
Sometimes Arshad Hussain disappears. He will be sitting on the bed, watching relatives, neighbours and journalists pour into his house, when suddenly scenes of his dead son wash over him. "I find...More
At least a dozen people were injured in India on Tuesday in fresh clashes between student groups loyal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opponents with the main opposition Congress party, police...More
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi appeared at Coptic Christmas Eve Mass on Monday and praised the links between the country’s Christian and Muslim faithful, saying they have prevented the...More
Iran has dropped espionage charges that had been laid against an Iranian-French academic detained in the Islamic republic since last year, her lawyer said on Tuesday. "The espionage charge has been...More
More than 250 civilians have been killed by Islamic extremists in Burkina Faso in less than a year, Human Rights Watch said in a new report on Monday, as attacks increase and armed groups gain more...More
Iran fired missiles on Wednesday at Iraqi bases housing the U.S. military, officials in Washington and Tehran said, in the first act of the Islamic republic's promised revenge for the U.S. killing of...More
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians thronged Tehran’s streets on Monday for the funeral of military commander Qassem Soleimani , killed by a U.S. drone strike last week, and his daughter said his death...More
Turkish lawmakers are set to back a bill on Thursday that allows troop deployment in Tripoli, but that is likely to begin with military support, training and drones in the air rather than boots on...More
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he would ask parliament for immunity, weeks after the embattled premier was indicted on a range of corruption charges. The move is expected to...More
Supporters of Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups who stormed the U.S . Embassy’s perimeter and hurled rocks in two days of protests withdrew on Wednesday after Washington dispatched extra...More
Assailants attacked several protest camps in north and south Lebanon early on Tuesday, according to state-run media, demolishing tents and burning down others as anger boiled over in the capital...More
Christians in the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy cities such as Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, Israeli authorities have announced. Gazan Christians will be...More
Six Malaysian Muslims have reportedly been handed one-month jail terms for skipping prayers in violation of Islamic laws, sparking fresh concern on Wednesday about rising religious conservatism in...More
Xiyue Wang, A Princeton University scholar who was freed from Iran this month after three years in captivity said on Monday that his release "is a victory of humanity and diplomacy across nations and...More
India's Supreme Court on Wednesday postponed hearing pleas challenging the constitutionality of a new citizenship law that has sparked opposition and massive protests across the country. The court...More
In reaction to the announcement of the Sakharov prize by the EU parliament for her father Ilham Tohtis, Jewher Ilhan, told Sumi Somaskandam from the Deutsche Welle: "I hope that this prize could help...More
2022 host Qatar has given the clearest indication yet that LGBT fans will be welcome, engaging with gay supporters as it hosts the FIFA World Cup – despite criminalising homosexuality. Organisers of...More
Qatar's large Egyptian community is clamouring to welcome their country's "icon" Mohamed Salah when he comes to the Gulf this week as Liverpool kick off their Club World Cup campaign. B ut a regional...More
A court in Pakistan on Tuesday handed a death sentence to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on treason charges for suspending the country's constitution in 2007. The three-judge special court...More
Outraged concert-goers shouting "revolution, revolution" hounded former Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora from a Christmas concert at the American University of Beirut on Sunday night. Lebanese...More
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 181 people suspected of ties to a group blamed for a 2016 coup attempt, the Ankara public prosecutor's office said. The detentions came after the capital's public...More
As dusk fell on Sunday, police smashed their way into the main library of New Delhi's Jamia Millia University, firing tear gas shells as scores of terrified students barricaded doors and hid inside...More
India's new citizenship law has stoked fears that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to remould the world's largest democracy as a Hindu nation, undermining the secular and pluralist roots of the...More
Algeria's unpopular presidential election was meant to reset the country's politics after months of crisis, but it exposed a rigid system determined to perpetuate itself, analysts say. "You get the...More
Amnesty International on Monday said that at least 304 people were killed and thousands more injured between 15 and 18 November as Iranian authorities "crushed protests using lethal force." In a...More
Jeremy Issacharoff, the Israeli ambassador to Germany, has defended Germany's UN ambassador against accusations of anti-Semitism. "We can have differences at times on policy issues and that does not...More
The United Nations extended the work of its Palestinian refugee agency for another three years on Friday, despite fierce opposition from the United States and Israel. The current mandate was due to...More
A supporter of Iraqi anti-government demonstrators was gunned down in Baghdad, a police source said on Sunday, the fourth backer of the protest movement to be killed in two weeks. Mohammed al-...More
Countries such as Kuwait and Israel have instituted virtual lockdowns in the face of COVID-19, while religious gatherings have been limited at a time of year ripe with ritual. Others have been slower to act. By Tom Allinson
