Just 10 years after carrying out the deadliest peacetime attack in Norway, right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik will on Tuesday ask a court for parole, a request widely expected to be denied...More
Rescue workers on Tuesday searched for survivors after an earthquake in a remote western region of Afghanistan killed at least 26 people and damaged hundreds of houses, officials said. Monday's 5.3-...More
As Iraq's Shia leaders jostle to secure a majority in the newly-elected parliament, Sunni and Kurdish minorities have been caught up in a spate of warning grenade attacks, analysts say. In recent...More
A court in the north-western Turkish city of Bolu has overturned a controversial city council vote to significantly hike water bills and civil marriage fees for foreign nationals. The administrative...More
Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani prisoner in the United States whose release was reportedly demanded by a Texas hostage-taker this weekend, is serving an 86-year sentence for the attempted murder of...More
Iran confirmed on Sunday that it has again imprisoned a French-Iranian researcher and anthropologist who had been furloughed with electronic monitoring bracelet, state media reported. The judiciary...More
Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday rejected a UN request to release an Emirati-flagged vessel they seized earlier this month, saying it carried weapons. "The Rwabee vessel was not carrying... toys for...More
Turkey and Armenia on Friday welcomed "constructive" talks between their special envoys, who met for the first time in Moscow in a bid to mend historically strained ties. Armenia and Turkey have no...More
Three Iranian diplomats have arrived in Saudi Arabia to take up posts at the headquarters of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on...More
A German court on Thursday sentenced a former Syrian colonel to life in jail for crimes against humanity in a "historic" verdict hailed by victims as a victory for justice, as the first global trial...More
Tens of thousands of devout Hindus, led by heads of monasteries and ash-smeared ascetics, took a holy dip into the frigid waters of the Ganges River in northern India on Friday despite rising COVID-...More
In deeply conservative Saudi Arabia the religious police once elicited terror, chasing men and women out of malls to pray and berating anyone seen mingling with the opposite sex. But the stick-...More
Freed after nearly five years in jail for alleged involvement in a failed coup, Turkish journalist and author Ahmet Altan, 71, now counts his time by the number of books he has left to write...More
The United Nations said on Tuesday it needed $5 billion in aid for Afghanistan in 2022 to avert a humanitarian catastrophe and offer the ravaged country a future after 40 years of suffering. In its...More
Three tense months after legislative elections, Iraq's parliament has finally held its inaugural session – but opening debates swiftly descended into furious arguments between Shia factions. In multi...More
If he wasn't making good money smuggling irregular migrants to the European Union by sea, Ibrahim himself might have joined the growing exodus from crisis-hit Lebanon. "If I didn't work in this...More
In a cafe in central Berlin, Wafa Mustafa has spread a cluster of photos across a table. The 31-year-old Syrian points to her father, an opponent of the Assad regime who has been missing since he was...More
Dissident Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin, who was serving a jail sentence in Tehran on security charges, has died after falling ill with COVID-19, rights groups said on Saturday. "Baktash...More
Nearly 8,000 people have been detained in Kazakhstan after days of historic unrest in the Central Asian country that left dozens dead, the interior ministry said Monday. "As of 10 January, 7,939...More
Saudi authorities have released a princess and her daughter who had been detained without charge for nearly three years, her legal advisor said on Saturday. Princess Basmah Bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al...More
After years on the front lines of Myanmar's battle for democracy, 76-year-old Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is once again a prisoner of the military, facing the bleak possibility of decades in...More
A Lebanese mountain town home to 70,000 Syrian refugees declared a "fuel emergency" on Thursday, warning that soaring heating fuel prices would spell tragedy as winter starts to bite. The town of...More
Yusuf Ziya Guler is one of nearly seven million Turks who grew up with Recep Tayyip Erdogan as their only leader and who can vote for the first time in general elections due by mid-2023. Like his...More
Muhammad Malik, 29, has resorted to a novel method in his search for a wife, making his prospective partners aware of his availability with adverts on billboards in the UK cities of London and...More
Election rallies were cancelled in India's heartland on Thursday as authorities fret over a sudden COVID-19 surge, driven by the Omicron variant, which has seen confirmed infections nearly triple in...More
Police in Kazakhstan killed "dozens" of protesters who tried to storm administrative buildings overnight in the country's biggest city Almaty, police told local media on Thursday. "Last night,...More
Iraqi boxer Bushra al-Hajjar jumps into the ring, gloves raised to eye level, and strikes out at her sparring partner. Her bigger struggle, though, is to deliver a blow against social taboos. In Iraq...More
Kazakhstan's president sacked the Central Asian country's cabinet Wednesday in a bid to head off unprecedented unrest across the nation that followed an energy price hike. More than 200 people were...More
About 200 fighters have been killed in fresh clashes near the strategic Yemeni city of Marib, military and medical sources said on Tuesday, as the seven-year war witnesses a surge in violence. More...More
French prosecutors said on Tuesday they have opened a terror probe over a December 30 blast in Saudi Arabia targeting a car participating in the Dakar rally that badly wounded its French driver. "A...More
Hardened fighters of Iraq's Shia former paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi organisation are seeking a new avenue to exert their influence – the theatre. Dubbed the "biggest theatrical production in Iraq...More
In the governor's compound of Afghanistan's Ghazni province, a new exhibit is unveiled before a rapt audience of Taliban fighters – sections of blast walls from a former U.S. military base. One...More
Turkey's yearly inflation climbed by the fastest pace in 19 years, jumping to 36.08% in December, official data showed on Monday. The Turkish Statistical Institute said the consumer price index...More
Police in India have arrested a man alleged to be behind the offering for sale of prominent Muslim women through a fake online auction, according to government officials, in a case that has sparked...More
Procedures to release political activist Ramy Shaath from detention in Egypt are under way, four judicial and security sources said late on Monday. Two of the sources, speaking on condition of...More
The United States has urged Sudanese leaders to ensure civilian rule and end violence against protesters after Abdalla Hamdok resigned as prime minister, throwing a transition towards elections...More
An Indonesian navy ship on Thursday was towing a boat carrying 120 Rohingya Muslims into port after it had drifted for days off the country's northernmost province of Aceh, a navy official said. The...More
Iran has used a satellite launch rocket to send three research devices into space, a defence ministry spokesman said on Thursday, as indirect US -Iran talks take place in Austria to try to salvage a...More
An Israeli was wounded in a shooting attack on the Gaza border on Wednesday, the military said, after a rare visit to Israel by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas drew condemnation from the enclave'...More
An Israeli air strike hit Syria 's Latakia port before dawn on Tuesday, sparking a fire that lit up the Mediterranean seafront in the second such attack on the key cargo hub this month, Syrian state...More
Somalia 's allies expressed alarm over the intensifying row between the country's president and prime minister as heavily armed factions patrolled parts of Mogadishu on Tuesday, raising fears that...More
The Indian government has refused to renew the foreign funding licence for a charity founded by Mother Teresa for not meeting eligibility criteria. The Missionaries of Charity, founded by the Nobel-...More
Lebanon 's president on Monday called for an end to a government boycott, implicitly criticising his ally Hezbollah for blocking cabinet meetings since October over demands to fire a judge. Lebanon's...More
Iran has marked the resumption of negotiations in Vienna on its nuclear programme with a demand for the lifting of international sanctions . "The minimum goal of this round of negotiations should be...More
"If I don't call you back, it's because I will be in England," Shakar Ali said in his last message to his family as he attempted to cross the Channel from France to Britain. But the inflatable boat...More
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday that the country intends to double the amount of settlers living in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights with a multimillion-dollar plan meant to...More
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities said on Sunday that women seeking to travel long distances should not be offered road transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative. The guidance...More
Tens of thousands of Sudanese protesters rallied on Saturday two months after a military coup, demanding that soldiers "go back to the barracks" and calling for a transition to civilian rule. Waving...More
Afghanistan's national museum is once again welcoming visitors and exhibiting pre-Islamic artefacts with the Taliban's blessing – a stark contrast to when the hardliners ransacked and shuttered the...More
Umm Raghad's children don't have proper clothes or a furnace at home to stay warm during Syria's bitter winter, so they burn scraps of garbage to keep the biting cold at bay. "Every morning I wake up...More
Armed groups deployed in the suburbs of Libya's capital on Tuesday, sparking security fears ahead of an expected delay of presidential elections, as three key candidates met in the country's east...More
Prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday, a judicial source said, after being tried on charges of spreading fake news. Blogger Mohamed Ibrahim and...More
Each year, thousands of people travel to the Turkish city of Konya to attend a week-long series of events and ceremonies that mark the death of the 13th-century Islamic poet, scholar and Sufi mystic Jalaladdin Rumi. By Francisco Seco
