Iraq's parliament has been stormed by hundreds of Shia Muslim in protest against ongoing deadlock in approving a new cabinet.…
Saudi Arabia has decided to break off diplomatic ties with Iran, amid a row over the execution of Shia Muslim…
Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Ismaili Shia Muslims in the Pakistani city of Karachi, killing at least 43 and injuring…
The US military has carried out a third round of airstrikes on Sunni Muslim militants to defend civilians in northern…
Two huge explosions killed at least 42 people and wounded more than 400 others in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli,…
Egypt's Islamist-run assembly has backed a draft constitution, including a measure keeping sharia, or Islamic law, as the main source…
Pope Tawadros II, the new leader of Egypt's Coptic Christian church, has been formally enthroned in Cairo. Pope Tawadros II…
Moaz al-Khatib, a leading Damascus cleric who fled Syria, has been chosen at a meeting in Qatar to head a…
Iraq's fugitive vice-president Tariq al-Hashemi has been sentenced to death in absentia after a court found him guilty of running…