U.S.-backed local forces in Iraq and Syria are struggling to contain a “resurgent” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) that still retains thousands of jihadis, a watchdog agency warned this week.
U.S. participation in peace talks in Afghanistan is a sign that “the time of demise and humiliation of these tyrants has come near,” the Taliban supreme leader declared on Thursday.
Pakistan this week announced plans to expel the Indian envoy and suspend trade with its neighbor after New Delhi dissolved the autonomy of the portion of Muslim-majority Kashmir it controls.
Taliban narco-jihadis claimed responsibility for an attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul that killed at least 14 and maimed nearly 150 others Wednesday.
A fire this week ravaged an Iraqi camp for internally displaced Yazidis who survived a genocidal campaign at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Workers from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India can marry “fair girls” from Kashmir, a lawmaker declared this week after the Himalayan region lost its autonomy.
The United States will not allow NATO member Turkey to attack U.S.-allied Kurds in Syria, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper declared this week.
The Afghan Taliban this week pledged to violently disrupt the upcoming presidential elections in Afghanistan at any cost even as the narco-jihadis continue to negotiate a U.S.-backed “political reconciliation” pact with Kabul.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) is pursuing a “strategic plan” to “weaken” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the wake of the allegedly Sunni kingdom-sponsored assassination of Islamist journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Iran’s state-run media claimed this week.
Indian Home Minister Amit Shah confirmed Tuesday new regulations on Kashmir will ensure New Delhi takes over the two portions held respectively by Pakistan and China.
Lawmakers in India passed a bill Tuesday that strips the statehood of the Indian-administered portion of Muslim-majority Kashmir.
Beijing on Monday denied U.S. assertions that China is the top source of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl killing thousands of Americans each year.
Iran in recent days captured the third foreign tanker in the Persian Gulf in less than a month amid intensifying tensions with the United States, Iranian state media reported over the weekend.
Turkey has renewed plans to launch a military operation against the U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters who helped the United States defeat the Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) territorial caliphate, the Turkish president announced over the weekend.
Uighur families reportedly expressed anger and doubt this week over China’s allegation that it has liberated most Muslim minorities held in concentration camps in Xinjiang province.
Afghan special forces reportedly killed or wounded 31 Taliban jihadis affiliated with al-Qaeda in eastern Afghanistan this week, including Chinese and Chechen militants.
Federal authorities on Friday indicted a legal permanent resident on charges linked to smuggling illegal migrants from his home country of Afghanistan into the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.
Saudi Arabia passed a new law allowing women over the age of 21 to travel abroad without a male guardian’s permission, the Sunni kingdom announced this week.
The U.S.-funded Afghan National Police (ANP) continues to engage in the ancient local custom of men sexually abusing young boys, the United Nations reported this week.
The United Nations confirmed this week that the Somalia-based al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab is forcing civilians to surrender hundreds of children from their community for “indoctrination” and “recruitment” to become jihadis.
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has repeatedly accused President Donald Trump of backing al-Qaeda, including during Wednesday’s Democrat debate.
The strength of the Afghan security forces stands at its “lowest level” in years, a U.S. watchdog agency revealed Thursday.
The Nigerian government insisted on Tuesday the homegrown jihadi group Boko Haram “is defeated” even as the organization continued a killing spree in its birthplace of Borno state that same day.
Lawmakers in India this week outlawed the centuries-old practice that allows a Muslim man to instantly divorce by saying the word “talaq” three times in his wife’s presence.
The number of children killed or maimed last year in 20 nations at war or in a state of conflict “reached record levels” at more than 12,000, an annual United Nations report revealed this week.
Drought in Afghanistan last year decimated the cultivation and production of opium, but the deadly drug remains a threat to peace and security, the United Nations says in a report released Tuesday.
Indian authorities have launched a massive search for the founder of the popular chain Café Coffee Day who went missing on Monday evening after lamenting his financial troubles.
U.S. President Donald Trump wants to reduce the number of American troops in Afghanistan before the next presidential election in the United States in 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared on Monday.
Playing golf is a form of training that can help the armed forces tackle insecurity in Nigeria fueled by Boko Haram, the highest-ranking military officer of the African country’s army argued over the weekend.
The death toll from suspected Boko Haram attack on a funeral gathering in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state over the weekend reached 70 as of Monday.
The United Nations-brokered Government of National Accord (GNA) over the weekend accused forces loyal to rogue Gen. Khalifa Haftar of airstrikes against a field hospital in southern Tripoli on Saturday, killing five doctors and injuring eight other health workers.
South Korea may contribute troops to a U.S.-led maritime security initiative to help protect oil tankers and other commercial vessels from Iranian aggression in the Strait of Hormuz, the Korea Times reported over the weekend.
Iran on Monday reportedly indicated it is open to talks with its longtime regional rival Saudi Arabia following reports that U.S. sanctions on its oil industry have severely crippled its economy.
Turkey has deported 4,500 Syrians this month alone, suggesting authorities are intensifying efforts to deal with the “rumbling grievances” by locals “over their prolonged presence,” Reuters reported this week.
U.S.-backed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani this week again offered the Taliban the opportunity to participate in presidential elections if they agree to peace talks with Kabul.
Al-Shabaab assumed responsibility for an assassination attempt this week on an American diplomat in the Somali capital of Mogadishu that killed six and wounded six others, including the city’s mayor.
Police in Uganda arrested 30 local students and hospitalized at least 50 this week for allegedly engaging in a fight over a “botched love affair” between kids from different schools, the country’s Daily Monitor reports.
Authorities in Iraq unearthed four mass graves in a desert in the southern part of their country with dozens of bodies believed to be Kurds massacred by forces loyal to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Voice of America (VOA) reported this week.
Indian authorities are investigating if illegal abortions and illicit sex-selection methods led to a lack of female births over the last three months in 132 villages in northern India, several outlets reported this week.
Chinese state media on Thursday touted “booming labor-based industries” driving economic growth in Xinjiang, home to internment camps holding hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities subjected to forced labor and other human rights abuses.
