Official figures show more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed and nearly 1,400 others wounded in violent attacks across Iraq last month.
Public crucifixions are mostly ceremonial these days, staged rituals that some Christian communities enact as part of their Easter observance. But the real thing may be returning to Syria.
Sri Lanka's Muslim legislators have asked President Mahinda Rajapakse to protect their minority community from "Buddhist extremist elements" blamed for a recent spate of hate attacks.
Video has emerged implicating British militants in Syria in an apparent war crime.
US Secretary of State John Kerry says this week’s deadline for an agreement on Mideast peace was irrelevant even before it passed.
More than 70,000 people waving Russian flags and brandishing posters of President Vladimir Putin have taken to the streets in Simferopol, capital of the Crimean peninsula.
The United Nations humanitarian chief says the measures adopted by the Security Council to aid millions of people in Syria is not working.
Jordan, one of the main host of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the war in their country, has opened a new refugee camp in an eastern desert.
Syria’s supreme constitutional court has received 24 request from people wishing to run for president in the country’s upcoming elections which is due to be held at June 3.
US military has witnessed a 50-percent rise in the sexual assault cases, while the actual number could be higher as many male victims don’t report the assault.