Saadi Gaddafi, a son of Libya's slain dictator Moamer Gaddafi, appeared in court yesterday to face trial on charges of murder and

Islamic State group jihadists seized a small town in Syria's central Homs province yesterday with help from local rebels and advanced

The first round run-off in Egypt's parliamentary election produced a turnout of 21.7 percent, officials announced Friday, reflecting

Dozens of Yemeni Shia rebels and pro-government fighters have been killed in clashes in several southern provinces as Saudi-led coalition aircraft targeted the Iran-backed insurgents, military officials said yesterday.

Israeli security forces shot and killed a Palestinian who ran at them with a knife in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, police said, as a

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said talks on the Syria crisis had unacceptably been taken "hostage" by the question of President

A Russian airliner crashes in central Sinai killing all 224 people on board, Egyptian officials say.

Jamaat-e-Islami will hold demonstrations across the country tomorrow demanding release of condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, whose flogging sentence caused an outcry, has been awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov human rights prize.

A Dhaka court frames charges against Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman and 8 others in an arson case of March 2013.

War crimes suspect Ahmed Ali of Netrakona died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the wee hours today.

Two people were killed Monday in a suicide bombing at a mosque in the Saudi city of Najran that was claimed by the Islamic State group, which has repeatedly targeted Shiites in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.

An operative of banned Purbo Bangla Communist Party (PBCP-Sarbahara faction), and the main accused in the case for killing three

The Islamic State jihadist group executed three people in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra by binding them to three historic columns and blowing them up, a monitoring group said Monday.

An Israeli court yesterday ordered the jailing of a firebrand cleric whose Islamist group has been accused of inciting a wave of violence over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Two Turkish fishermen rescued and resuscitated a Syrian toddler they luckily found floating unconscious in the Aegean Sea.

Al-Qaeda has re-established a presence in Afghanistan and the Islamic State group has become a serious threat, the Afghan national security adviser warned, saying the country was in danger of again becoming a safe haven for terrorists and calling for US and Nato military backing to help drive them out.

Efforts to douse Israeli-Palestinian tensions over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound ran into trouble yesterday when the Islamic trust which administers the holy site accused Israeli police of blocking the agreed installation of cameras.

Locals foiled a bid to abduct a schoolgirl and caught one of the three abductors at Maderipur village under Pirganj upazila of Rangpur On Saturday.

Israel and Jordan have agreed on moves aimed at reducing tensions surrounding a prominent holy site in Jerusalem.