Pakistan will consider extending the deadline for 1.4 million Afghan refugees living legally in the country to return home, officials said on Monday.
Any extension approved by the government would be a relief for those who were previously ordered to (...)
A car bomb attack in Pakistan has killed at least 13 soldiers and injured civilians.
Pakistani officials said a suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a military convoy in the north-western tribal region of North Waziristan, near (...)
At least 13 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 24 others wounded, including 14 civilians, in a suicide bombing on Saturday targeting an army convoy in North Waziristan, near the border with Afghanistan, local media reported.
The attack occurred in (...)
India has refused to sign a joint statement at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in China as it did not reflect the country's concerns on terrorism, India's foreign ministry has said.
Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on Thursday (...)
JEDDAH — Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman received on Tuesday phone calls from Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani. They praised Saudi Arabia's stance calling for (...)
Indian investigators say all three militants involved in April's deadly attack on tourists near Indian-administered Kashmir's Pahalgam town were Pakistani nationals from the UN-proscribed militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Police had earlier (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told US President Donald Trump that Delhi will never accept third-party mediation with Pakistan on the issue of Kashmir, a senior diplomat said.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that Modi "strongly" (...)
CAIRO — Twenty Arab and Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia, affirmed their condemnation and rejection of the Israeli attacks on Iran. In a joint statement released by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, foreign ministers of these countries (...)
The era of nuclear disarmament is coming to an end while new technologies push the risk of nuclear conflict higher, SIPRI warned on Monday.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) stressed in its annual assessment of the state (...)
Iran launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early on Monday, triggering air raid sirens across the country as emergency services reported projectiles striking and shrapnel falling in Israel's north and center, wounding at least 67 (...)
US President Donald Trump rejected a plan by Israel to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, three US officials have told CBS News.
Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that assassinating Khamenei was "not a (...)
US President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Iran and Israel to make a peace deal, expressing confidence that such an agreement is possible.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump cited his role in defusing tensions between India and Pakistan (...)
JEDDAH — A minor earthquake, with a magnitude of 3.35 point on the Richter Scale, struck eastern Saudi Arabia in the Arabian Gulf. The quake that hit approximately 85 kilometers east of Jubail at 5:12:55 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the Saudi (...)
Families traveling abroad this summer on holiday or to visit relatives are being warned about the rise in measles cases in Europe and other regions.
Measles infections in Europe are at a 25-year high, while cases are also surging in countries such (...)
The world's highest railway bridge, an ambitious piece of engineering across a mountain valley in Kashmir, was opened Friday by Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi, just weeks after a deadly tourist massacre in the Himalayan region sparked a brief (...)
MINA — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif at Al-Mina Palace on Friday.
During the reception, congratulations were exchanged on the occasion of Eid al-Adha. The two leaders reviewed historical (...)
Shona Banu still shudders when she thinks of the past few days.
The 58-year-old, a resident of Barpeta district in India's north-eastern state of Assam, says that she was called to the local police station on 25 May and later taken to a point at the (...)
A 22-year-old man has been arrested in Pakistan and confessed to the murder of 17-year-old social media influencer Sana Yousaf, according to police.
Authorities say they believe Umar Hayat murdered Ms Yousaf at her home in Islamabad on Monday after (...)
India's military has for the first time acknowledged the loss of fighter jets in the recent escalation with Pakistan, but dismissed Islamabad's claim of downing six aircraft as "absolutely incorrect."
Chief of Defence Staff Anil Chauhan confirmed (...)
RIYADH — Under the patronage of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, the Global Water Organization (GWO) officially launched operations from its headquarters in Riyadh on Wednesday, with founding member states signing the (...)
MALE — Saudi Arabia launched the "Makkah Route" Initiative in the Maldives on Monday, making it the eighth country to benefit from the initiative. The other countries are Morocco, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Côte (...)
Farooq Ahmed still bristles with anger when he talks about his brother's death.
Mohammad Iqbal, a resident of Poonch city in Indian-administered Kashmir, died in cross-border shelling on 7 May, the morning after India launched a series of air (...)
Before President Donald Trump's plane even touched down in Riyadh, the world stood at a decisive crossroads—caught between the prospect of dangerous escalations or the promise of long-overdue settlements that could end years of unrest across (...)
When Shreya Mishra Reddy was admitted to Harvard University in 2023, her parents were "ecstatic".
It is "the ultimate school that anybody in India wants to get into," she tells the BBC.
Now, with graduation around the corner, she has had to break (...)
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has proposed Saudi Arabia as a potential neutral venue for future dialogue between Pakistan and India, expressing hope for de-escalation between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
In a briefing to Pakistani media (...)
