South Korean and US troops boosted their alert level to the highest category since 2006 today, after the North threatened military strikes on allied military forces in escalating tensions over its nuclear test.
KABUL – The Afghan government quietly dumped more than 1,000 Shiite texts and other books from Iran into a river after a local governor complained that their content insulted the country's Sunni majority.
"These were people who were eager to bring death to the Jews and the Jewish community." Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Snyder provided this apt characterization of the four converts to Islam whose plans to bomb a Bronx synagogue and a Jewish community center were thwarted.
Egypt deployed additional security and intelligence personnel along its border with the Gaza Strip over the last three days, shutting down many of the smuggling routes into the besieged Palestinian territory, Israeli television reported on Wednesday evening.
Islamist militants in Algeria ambushed and shot dead nine soldiers, newspapers reported on Wednesday.
The National Association of Muslim American Women (NAMAW) has charged the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with entrapping four New York City Muslims arrested for planning to bomb a synagogue.
Reconciliation with the Islamic World is a Two-Way Street
Mogadishu: Witnesses and officials say Somali insurgents have fired mortars near the presidential palace, killing seven civilians and two government soldiers.
At least 30 people were killed and dozens were injured when a suicide bomber rammed a car into a police building in Lahore today.
North Korea announced today that it is to abandon the armistice which for more than 50 years has held together a fragile peace with South Korea, amid increasing military activity on the peninsula.