The stampede occurred when a crowd of devotees started pushing towards the stage after the event to touch the preacher, who was coming down, said Yogi...
A video on social media showed a large crowd packed into a tented area, standing and listening to devotional tunes as they waved their hands in...
He also said Israel will act with full force against Iran-backed Hezbollah if it does not stop firing at Israel from Lebanon and move away from...
With more than 24 million votes counted moderate lawmaker Massoud Pezeshkian led with over 10 million votes ahead of hardline diplomat Saeed Jalili with over 9.4...
Iranians started voting on Friday for a new president following the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, choosing from a tightly controlled group of...
Gaza health officials said at least 45 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli military strikes across the densely populated coastal enclave on Tuesday.
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...