The number of people uprooted within their own countries by war and conflict rose last year to a record 40.8 million, a report published on May 10 found.
The chief of Bangladesh's largest Islamist political party has been executed for crimes committed during the country's 1971 war of liberation against Pakistan.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani arrived in Tajikistan on May 10 for a two-day visit, with the CASA-1000 power project expected to be officially launched during his trip.
In a new audio recording, the son of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden reportedly urges militants to travel to Syria and unite in a battle to ultimately liberate Palestine.
Tajik authorities say they have detained four suspected supporters of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group who were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the country during the celebrations marking Victory Day on May 9.
Tehran says several of its soldiers have been killed in fighting near Aleppo, in what could be one of Iran’s biggest losses in Syria since deploying forces to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Violent clashes between police and protesters have erupted in Indian-controlled Kashmir following the killing of three rebels in a gunbattle.
China and Kazakhstan have signed $2 billion in deals during a trip by the Communist Party chief of China's far western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Chinese media report.
The leader of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e Islami, is scheduled to hang within days after the country’s Supreme Court on May 5 upheld his death sentence for war crimes.
NATO's new supreme commander in Europe says the military alliance remains essential more than 25 years after the end of the Cold War.
The latest report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says religious freedom across the world deteriorated in 2015.
Iran has passed a law allowing the government to grant citizenship to the families of foreigners killed while fighting for the Islamic republic.
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