A Tehran court has fined two women $260 for violating the Islamic dress code by not wearing their mandatory hijabs (headscarves) properly in the street, a

Saudi King Salman has ordered one million Riyals (($267,000) compensation for those who were injured with permanent disability and half a million for other

Australian warplanes have carried out their first air strike against Islamic State group in Syria, destroying an armoured personnel carrier, Defence Minister Kevin Andrews said yesterday.

The Supreme Court clears the way for the lower court to resume trial proceedings against former lawmakers Harun-or-Rashid and Mufti Shahidul Islam in separate corruption cases.

A one-year-old boy drowned in a pond at Mostafapur village in Dupchanchia upazila of the district on Monday. The deceased is Mostakin,

The local administration today imposed Section 144 at Dashuria Degree College in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna in a bid to avoid possible clashes between two factions of BNP ahead of its council.

Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound for a third straight day on Tuesday.

A college girl was raped by her classmate at eco park, near Bangabandhu Bridge in Sirajganj yesterday.

Five Saudi soldiers have died on the border with Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition said late on Sunday as forces inside Yemen began a major offensive against

At least 26 people including two children were killed yesterday in twin suicide car bomb attacks in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 13 civilians were killed in the two blasts, along with six members of the Kurdish security services and seven fighters from a pro-regime militia.

Teachers, students and employees of Shaheed Smriti High School in Sadar upazila of the district blocked Patuakhali-Barisal highway at

The al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has called on young Muslim men in Western countries to carry out lone-wolf attacks – and urged greater unity between militants.

Members of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested an alleged human trafficker in Charsubuddi area under Raipura upazila of the district yesterday.

Pakistan militants who have pledged allegiance to Islamic State yesterday said they had attacked a paramilitary checkpoint along the Afghan border, in the first

Iran has discovered an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium and will soon begin extracting the radioactive element at a new mine, the head of Iran's Atomic

Yemen's exiled government backed out of UN-brokered peace talks as loyalist forces supported by a Saudi-led coalition launched a major offensive yesterday against Shia Huthi rebels.

Clashes have broken out at the al-Aqsa mosque complex in East Jerusalem after Israeli police entered the compound, reports say.

Criminals vandalised houses of 20 families and looted their valuables at Gilajhuki village in Nawabganj upazila under the district on

Saudi Arabia on Friday banned the slaughter of camels during this year's hajj pilgrimage, after a surge in deaths from the MERS virus linked to the animals.

Eleven people were killed in rebel rocket fire on the Syrian capital Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday. The Britain-based