DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian government officials and leaders in the Druze religious minority announced Wednesday a renewed ceasefire after days of clashes that have threatened to unravel the country ...

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The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has released a new party position for reserved seats in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly. This update came after the commission accepted a petition filed ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor, said the clashes started after members of a Bedouin tribe ...

The JUI-F has also lost its minority seat. The victory notifications of JUI-F’s Bilqis and PPP’s Sajida Begum have been withdrawn as well.

Zena, 65, from Oxted, Surrey, was on holiday in The Gambia two years ago when she came across Ebrima, a waiter at her resort ...

During her visit, the organisers of the Kanwar camps welcomed Iqra Hasan by offering her a traditional chunari (scarf) and pagdi (turban) as a mark of respect. The MP thanked the organisers and ...

Get ready to cope” was the message from an aid worker to women returning to Taliban rule in Afghanistan after their expulsion ...

"The explanation complicated the narrative that I had come to understand throughout my upbringing — the one that had kept me ...

While women participate actively in janazah prayers and other mourning rituals, their physical presence at the burial site is ...

According to eyewitnesses, one or two armed men entered the Mar Elyas Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus during mass, when it was packed with some 350 worshippers, and indiscriminately opened fire ...