JEDDAH — The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which groups 57 Islamic nations, joined several organizations and nations in the Arab and Islamic world in strongly condemning Benjamin Netanyahu's unacceptable and irresponsible remarks (...)
RIYADH — The Royal Saudi Navy is participating in the joint naval exercise titled "AMAN-25," which started in Karachi, Pakistan on Friday, as part of its efforts to enhance international cooperation in maritime security.
Naval forces from as many as (...)
Shakoofa Khalili was waiting for her husband to return home with bread from the market when she heard their eight-year-old daughter scream from the balcony.
The girl had seen police approach her father in the street outside their safe house in (...)
Billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader Aga Khan has died at the age of 88, his charity the Aga Khan Development Network has announced.
Prince Karim Aga Khan was the 49th hereditary imam of the Ismailis, a Shia Muslim faction.
He "passed (...)
ISLAMABAD — The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) Chief Executive Sultan Al-Marshad and Pakistani Secretary for Ministry of Economic Affairs Dr. Kazim Niaz signed a $1.2 billion financing agreement for the import of oil derivatives.
The signing (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Education has begun receiving applications from teachers to be nominated to send abroad, specifically to13 countries around the world, to teach specialized subjects in Saudi schools in those countries.
The countries to where (...)
The Pakistan army announced Saturday that it killed at least 30 suspected militants during a series of security operations in the northwest region.
The operations, conducted in the Karak, Lakki Marwat, and Khyber districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (...)
"It's like the United States doesn't actually understand what I did for this country, it's a betrayal," Abdullah tells the BBC.
He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the US withdrawal in August 2021 and is now a paratrooper for the US military. (...)
A man has been jailed for 30 years for attempting to murder two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo in 2020.
Zaheer Mahmood, 29, from Pakistan, attacked and badly wounded two employees of the Premieres Lignes (...)
Refugees who were slated to travel to the United States after a years-long and often cumbersome process have had their flights canceled, according to a State Department memo to resettlement partners obtained by CNN.
The memo comes on the heels of (...)
Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations.
These self-proclaimed codebreakers — ranging from engineers and IT workers to retirees and (...)
Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in prison over a corruption case, in the latest of a series of charges laid against him.
It is the longest valid jail sentence the cricket star-turned-politician, who has been (...)
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered an investigation after the nation's flag carrier drew widespread criticism for putting out an advertisement that showed a plane flying toward the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The ad was meant to promote (...)
India's latest diplomatic outreach to Afghanistan's Taliban government signals a marked shift in how it sees the geopolitical reality in the region.
This comes more than three years after India suffered a major strategic and diplomatic blow when (...)
Billionaire Elon Musk announced Saturday that Starlink has applied to launch its internet services in Pakistan but is awaiting government approval.
Musk responded to a post by Sanam Jamali, a Pakistani netizen, who praised the potential impact of (...)
Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has died at the age of 92.
Singh was one of India's longest-serving prime ministers and was considered the architect of key liberalizing economic reforms, as premier from 2004-2014 and before that as (...)
The Afghan Taliban said bombardment by Pakistani military aircraft in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province on Tuesday killed at least 46 people, most of whom were children and women.
Six people were also injured in the bombing at four locations in (...)
RIYADH — The weekly session of the Saudi Council of Ministers, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday, hailed the successful outcome of recent economic, cultural, and media conferences and events held in (...)
Javed Iqbal, a Pakistani carpenter working in Saudi Arabia, says he deeply regrets his decision to illegally send his 13-year-old son to Europe.
"The agents had sent dozens of boys from the village to Greece and Italy," he says. "My son, who was (...)
Pakistan on Thursday denounced new US sanctions on the country's ballistic missile program as "discriminatory" that put the region's peace and security at risk, according to the Associated Press news agency.
Pakistan's foreign ministry warned in a (...)
ISLAMABAD — President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan welcomed Shoura Council Speaker Dr. Abdullah Al Al-Sheikh and his accompanying delegation during an official visit to Islamabad.
At the meeting's outset, Al Al-Sheikh conveyed to the Pakistani (...)
An Indian woman who says she was trafficked to Pakistan more than two decades ago has finally returned home — 18 months after her grandson spotted her in a YouTube video. Hamida Banu said she had spent the last 22 years "as a living corpse", trapped (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to consuls general-designate to a number of countries in a ceremony held at the ministry's headquarters in Riyadh on Wednesday.
The newly (...)
A 92-year-old Japanese man who lived through the American atomic bombing of Nagasaki called for the abolition of all nuclear weapons, as he accepted this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday.
"Imagine this: there are 4,000 nuclear warheads that could (...)
Supporters of jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan have been pushed back by security forces after reaching the heart of the heavily-barricaded capital earlier on Tuesday.
The convoy of opposition protesters has been marching towards (...)
