Tag: Islam

An air strike killed eight women and a child at a funeral reception near the Yemeni capital, witnesses said Thursday, ...

A suicide attack Thursday at Pakistan's Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in the southern city of Shewan in Sindh province killed ...

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's victory in Somalia's presidential election last week brought joyous crowds into the streets of Mogadishu, a testament ...

The Chairman of the newly inducted Hajj Board, Sheik I. C. Quaye, has pledged to take the necessary steps to ...

The Executive Secretary of the National Labour Commission (NLC), Lawyer Charles Adongo Bawa Duah, has for the first time broken ...

The UN Security Council on Wednesday demanded armed groups in the Central African Republic immediately halt fighting and join peace ...

President Adama Barrow has appointed a Gambian lawyer and former UN prosecutor as chief justice of the country's supreme court, ...

At least 18 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a predominantly Shia suburb of the Iraqi capital ...

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday rejected the possibility of reconciliation with a "minority" that is opposed to ...

A former senior official at Nigeria's intelligence agency, the State Security Service, has been recalling his ordeal after being abducted ...

Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday urged all warring parties in Yemen to allow aid deliveries, saying it had treated more ...

The United Arab Emirates' ambassador to Afghanistan has died of wounds sustained in a January 10 bombing in Kandahar that ...

Juma Mohammed Abdullah al-Kaabi, centre, has died of wounds sustained in the Kandahar attack The ambassador of the United Arab ...

Living conditions in west Mosul, where jihadists are hunkering down among 750,000 Iraqi civilians, are deteriorating fast and a source ...

Five people were killed Wednesday when two suicide bombers attacked a government compound in Pakistan's restive tribal region, officials said, ...

Ghana’s participation in this year’s pilgrimage to the Holy land of Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has started ...

Residents of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, are voting for a new governor, in an election overshadowed by the incumbent's blasphemy ...

Jakarta goes to the polls Wednesday with the city's Christian governor fighting to keep his job in a high-stakes election ...

Valentine's Day returned Tuesday to the eastern sector of the Iraqi city of Mosul from where the Islamic State group ...

Thousands of Iraqis, mostly supporters of prominent cleric Moqtada Sadr, gathered in Baghdad Tuesday to pay their respects to seven ...