Avaneesh Pandey

The current campaign against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria is being carried out under two existing laws passed in 2001 and 2002.

Violence in and around East Jerusalem has seen a drastic uptick following a series of clashes on Wednesday.

The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule and has lived in exile ever since.

Jamaat-ul-ahrar is one of the groups to claim responsibility for Sunday's attack on the India-Pakistan border that killed at least 60 people.

Fresh clashes erupted just a day after Fatah -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ political party -- issued a “call to arms” to Palestinians.

The Pentagon report also alleged that Pakistan is providing “sanctuary” to militants of the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network.

While the deal was announced a year ago, Saudi Arabia had held back funds over fears that the arms could fall into the hands of Hezbollah.

Human Rights Watch, based on interviews with several Kurdish children, found that ISIS tortured and abused children abducted from Kobani.

The airstrikes were carried out overnight on Tuesday near the town of Rada, about 100 miles southeast of the capital city of Sanaa.

According to U.N. estimates, at least 10 million people worldwide are currently stateless, and every 10 minutes a baby is born stateless.

Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis is believed to be behind several attacks targeting Egyptian security forces in recent months.

Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, has been kept in detention, and has spent time in solitary confinement since her arrest in June.

ISIS claimed that it had captured the Jahar gas field, less than a week after seizing the Sha'ar gas field in Syria's Homs province.

The case is a potential minefield for the U.S. government, which does not recognize Israel’s claims over Jerusalem.

Pakistan's northwest, hundreds of miles from the latest attack, is one of the last bastions of local militants and their foreign affiliates.

The execution-style killings of members of the Albu Nimr tribe have become a daily affair in territories controlled by ISIS.

Since Ashraf Ghani took oath in September, the Taliban has intensified attacks in and around the capital city of Kabul.

Unregulated entities have filled the vacuum left behind by shrinking banks that are coping with new regulations after the financial crisis.

The meeting comes a day after U.S. President Barack Obama had separate telephone conversations with Thein Sein and Suu Kyi.

The Al-Aqsa mosque and Temple Mount, sites of religious importance for both Muslims and Jews, had been closed early on Thursday.

The decision makes Sweden the first European Union member in Western Europe to officially recognize the State of Palestine.

U.S.-born Israeli activist Yehuda Glick was shot and severely injured on Wednesday night near Temple Mount.

Egyptian authorities have blamed Hamas for attacks on security forces in Sinai, including Friday's attacks that killed over 30 soldiers.

The Islamic State group targeted members of the Sunni Albu Nimr tribe, which had fought against them in Anbar.

It is estimated that Indians hold as much as $500 billion in illegal funds in overseas tax havens, including in Switzerland and Mauritius.

Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was found guilty of murder, rape and looting during the 1971 war with Pakistan.

Following Sunday's elections, the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk announced plans to elect regional leaders in eastern Ukraine.

Turkey has allowed Iraqi peshmerga fighters and Free Syrian Army rebels to travel to Kobani to assist in the fight against ISIS.

The survey invited responses from nearly 11,000 students, of which about 3,800 students, or 35 percent, responded.