Bangladesh has executed a tycoon and top financier for the largest Islamist party for war crimes, dealing a major blow to its ambitions in the troubled country.
A popular Malaysian rapper and film director has been arrested over a music video which allegedly disrespects Islam, the national news agency said.
A British national and a student at a Canadian university have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in last month's deadly siege at a cafe in Bangladesh's capital, police said Thursday.
Thousands gathered at Rouen cathedral in northern France on Tuesday for the funeral of Father Jacques Hamel, the 85-year-old priest who was murdered by two jihadists last week.
At least one policeman was killed and five others wounded Thursday following an explosion and a gunbattle near a mass prayer gathering to celebrate Eid in northern Bangladesh, police said.
A Bangladeshi politician has spoken of his shock on discovering his son was one of the suspected gunmen who murdered foreign hostages ...
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pleaded with Islamist extremists to stop killing in the name of religion Saturday after 20 hostages were killed in a siege at a Dhaka restaurant.
A Pakistani teenager allegedly burned alive for refusing a marriage offer actually committed suicide, police said Friday, in a statement slammed by a prominent rights activist and the girl's father.
Scores of police have been deployed to guard a village in central Myanmar where religious tensions are running high after a Buddhist mob destroyed a mosque, authorities said ...
Indonesian netizens have reacted with fury and a flurry of donations after footage emerged of a frail food seller breaking down as her cafe was raided for staying open ...
Pope Francis will meet the spiritual leader of the world's Sunni Muslims in an unprecedented encounter at the Vatican on Monday, the pontiff's spokesman said Thursday.
A 75-year-old Buddhist monk was found hacked to death Saturday in Bangladesh's remote southeastern district of Bandarban, police said, the latest in a spate of murders of religious minorities ...
