Tag: Islam

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on the armed Syrian opposition to wage guerrilla warfare against the government of Bashar ...

Leaning on his crutch, Nizar picks through the rubble where the main building of Mosul University used to be, looking ...

Afghanistan’s defence minister and army chief of staff have resigned in the wake of a Taliban attack that left scores ...

Islam Maytat thought marrying an Afghan-British businessman was her ticket to a new life as a fashionista in London. Instead ...

Farida Kachwala is vacating her family's cramped home of eighty years, one of thousands receiving modern apartments through a project ...

A local photographer who works with AFP was seriously wounded in a missile strike on Sunday in southwest Yemen, his ...

US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived Sunday for a short visit to Djibouti, a strategically important country on the Horn ...

Iran's former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that he won't endorse other candidates in next month's election, after he ...

Hundreds of thousands of Shiite faithful thronged the mausoleum of Imam Kadhim in Baghdad Sunday for the climax of a ...

Farida Kachwala is vacating her family's cramped home of eighty years, one of thousands receiving modern apartments through a project ...

US forces operating in Syria have killed a senior member of the Islamic State group blamed for an attack on ...

The first public hearing into the June 2015 attack in the Tunisian resort of Sousse that killed 38 foreign tourists ...

A new report has found that the complex risks arising from climate change, fragility and conflict can contribute to the ...

At least eight Afghan soldiers have been killed and 11 wounded during an ongoing Taliban attack on their base in ...

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Friday blamed the country's former Al-Qaeda affiliate for a deadly bombing against buses carrying evacuees ...

A military court in Cameroon has convicted Ahmed Abba, a journalist for Radio France Internationale's (RFI) Hausa service, on charges ...

A verdict is due Thursday in the trial by military court of Radio France Internationale (RFI) journalist Ahmed Abba, who ...

The Nigerian army on Wednesday launched a monthlong operation to reduce violence in the center of the country, as ethnically ...

The United Nations called Thursday on the Saudi-led coalition intervening in Yemen not to bomb the rebel-held port of Hodeida, ...

The Egyptian military said Thursday it killed a senior Islamic State group cleric and 18 jihadists in air strikes in ...