Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 02:25
Leading Sunni scholars and religious leaders called on the Pakistani Taliban to announce a ceasefire to make the peace talks with the government a success.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 03:14
More than 1,000 people were killed in Iraq in January, figures showed, as the country grapples with a surge in attacks and battles militants holding territory on Baghdad`s doorstep.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 02:28
A Pakistani court has sentenced one person to death and four others to life in jail for murdering four people in the infamous Kohistan dishonour killings case that made global headlines in 2012.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 02:27
Egyptian officials say they have barred entrance to the country to 52 Shi`ite pilgrims from India who came to visit historic Shi`ite Muslim shrines.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 01:53
Car bombs and a shooting, mainly in Shi`ite areas, killed 20 people in the Iraqi capital, officials said.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 17:30
Al Qaeda and other insurgent groups have tightened their grip on Falluja, defying the Shi`ite-led Iraqi government`s efforts to persuade local tribesmen to expel them from the Sunni Muslim city, residents and officials say.
Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 07:50
Bodies of 14 Sunni Muslim tribesmen were found in date palm groves north of Baghdad, a day after they were kidnapped by uniformed men in security forces vehicles, Iraqi police and medics said.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 23:53
Sunni fighters including al Qaeda-linked militants have overrun several more areas of Ramadi, one of two Iraqi cities near Baghdad, police said on Tuesday.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 11, 2014, 20:43
Yemeni troops began to deploy in the northern province of Saada on Saturday to monitor a ceasefire between Shiite rebels and hardline Sunni Salafists, a security official said.
Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 21:44
Al Qaeda-linked fighters have departed Iraq`s Fallujah and it is now in the hands of Sunni tribesmen, a senior tribal sheikh said on Monday.
Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 18:48
An intensifying revolt in a Sunni Arab province of Iraq sparked by the Shiite-led government`s dispersal of a year-old protest leaves the country at the crossroads between reconciliation and civil war, analysts say.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 18:12
The Iraqi army shelled the western city of Falluja with mortar bombs overnight to try to wrest back control from Sunni Muslim militants and tribesmen, killing at least eight people, tribal leaders and officials said on Saturday.
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