Inside a hospital in Syria’s capital, Ilham slaps her head in grief after her daughter stepped out to buy her a Mother’s Day present but never came back. Ilham’s daughter was among 35 people killed in a rebel rocket attack on a shopping area in a Damascus suburb on Tuesday, …

Saudi Arabia is revamping its education curriculum to eradicate any trace of Muslim Brotherhood influence and will dismiss anyone working in the sector who sympathises with the banned group, the education minister said. Promoting a more moderate form of Islam is one of the promises made by Crown Prince Mohammed …

Afghan Taliban on Tuesday expressed willingness to initiate dialogue with the leaders of local groups resisting the United States’ “foreign occupation”. The stance was expressed in a statement that termed the 2001 US-led military invasion of Afghanistan an ‘ongoing tragedy’ and remained mum over Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s recently announced …

Kabul: A suicide bomber on Wednesday killed at least 26 people, many of them teenagers, after detonating a device among a crowd of people in Kabul who were celebrating the Persian New Year holiday, officials said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the deadly attack — the fifth suicide …

ISLAMABAD: The successful holding of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches in Pakistan is a great achievement of the government which testifies to the prevalence of better law and order situation in the country; an outcome of the policies pursued in conformity with the vision of former prime minister Muhammad …

ISLAMABAD: Moody’s does not expect Pakistan’s inclusion in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list to have a material impact on its external financing. Pakistan had previously been included in the list between 2012 and 2015 but managed to negotiate when its entered into an IMF program Moody’s does …

GUJRANWALA: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Wednesday said that Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif was next in line for disqualification after the ouster of his brother and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. “Punjab should be cleansed from the Sharifs in the upcoming general elections,” he told workers at …

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif Wednesday said that the Supreme Court judge’s remarks about the Panama case were not an ‘ordinary thing’. He was referring to the remarks of Justice Qazi Faez Isa made while hearing a lawmaker’s disqualification case on Tuesday that the Panama case was about the …

WASHINGTON: The United States has ruled out any plan to cross the international border in chasing the Taliban or any other terrorist group who flee Afghanistan. “To be clear, US military authorities are within the borders of Afghanistan only. We have no authority to go into Pakistan. If there is …

WASHINGTON: The United States emphasised on Wednesday that while Pakistan was headed in the right direction, ‘a lot more needs to be done’ with regard to wiping out terrorism from South Asia. Addressing a weekly press briefing, Heather Nauert, the spokesperson for the US State Department, said, “We’ve certainly seen …