Religious hardliners and conservative tribal leaders say such pageants are unIslamic and threaten public morality

The most intense fighting since the 1990s has engulfed Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeastern region since July

Iran says it lost at least 169 pilgrims when two large groups of pilgrims converged on at a crossroads in Mina

PM Shinzo Abe made no reference to whether Japan would ease its own strict conditions for accepting refugees.

Police chief says main motive for this crime was Thai authorities destroying human trafficking network

President Abdulla Yameen was returning from Saudi Arabia after performing Hajj

In video, one of the Turks reads statement in Arabic, saying captors had treated them humanely

Taliban spokesman says insurgent fighters seized hospital in a district in south of the city

"We have a big heart. However, there is a limit to what we can do," says President Joachim Gauck

PKK fighters attack security forces in cities with heavy weapons, dig trenches and erect barricades on streets