The election coincides with escalating regional tensions due to the Israel-Hamas conflict, increased Western pressure on Iran over its rapidly advancing nuclear programme, and growing domestic...
The agencies are being blamed for sending pilgrims to Saudi on personal visit visas, rather than hajj visas that allow access to Mecca where hajj rituals...
America’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has condemned Tajikistan’s new legislation that seeks to prohibit the wearing of...
Later, some people poured oil on his body and set it ablaze, the source added.
Saudi state TV said temperatures rose on Monday as high as 51.8 degrees Celsius (125.2 Fahrenheit) in the shade at the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
Fourteen Jordanians have been reported dead during the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, some of them due to heat stroke, while 17 others were reported...
Three of 11 Filipino workers in the building were brought to hospitals, while the status of five remained unclear and three were safe, the Philippine migrant...
At least nine people were killed and 33 injured when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims plunged into a deep gorge after a suspected militant attack in...
A bomb blast targeting a military truck killed seven soldiers on Sunday in northwestern Pakistan along the border with Afghanistan, the army said. The incident took...
Iran’s Guardian Council, a 12-member election supervisory body, has finalized the list of candidates for president and submitted it to the Interior Ministry, Mohsen Eslami, the...
Israeli forces rescued four hostages alive from two separate locations in the central Gaza area of al-Nuseirat on Saturday, the military said. The four hostages, three...
China’s President Xi Jinping met Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Beijing on Friday, Chinese state media reported, days before Pakistan presents its annual budget and...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set for a historic third term on Tuesday, but with a vastly diminished majority in a rare electoral setback for...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alliance was winning a majority of seats in early vote counting trends in the general election on Tuesday, but well short...
Iran’s hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered to run for president in the country’s June 28 election, organized after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi...
Indians voted in searing summer heat on Saturday in the final phase of the world’s biggest election, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third...
A bus carrying pilgrims fell into a deep gorge in the northern Indian federal territory of Jammu on Thursday, killing at least 21 people and injuring...
Pakistan’s former premier Nawaz Sharif was reelected president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N party on Tuesday. He last held the position in 2017, when he...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, making his third foreign trip since his re-election in March, arrived in Uzbekistan on Sunday and met with his counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev...
At least 24 people, including many children, died in a fire that broke out on Saturday evening in a family entertainment venue in the western Indian...