Delwar Hossein Sayeedi, leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh's largest Islamist opposition party, was sentenced to death after being convicted of committing war crimes including mass killing and rape. His supporters say the case against him was p...

Tunisia's ruling Islamist party Ennahda gives up the interior, foreign, defense, and justice ministries to independent figures, in an attempt to diffuse the crisis that erupted following the assassination of opposition leader Chokri Belaid. This c...

Protesters in the coastal city of Port Said held anti-government demonstrations titled "Friday of Apology" and chanted slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood. This is in response to recent clashes with the police that left over 40 people dead. M...

Tzipi Livni's centrist Hatnuah Party is the first to join the Benjamin Netanyahu coalition government following Israel's election on January 22. The center-right Shas Party and Yisrael Beiteinu are still in talks, as well as the right-wing Naftali...

The Free Syrian Army has disowned an earlier statement in which it had apparently vowed to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon. The original threat of force was made over accusations that Iranian-backed Hezbollah is working alongside government forces in ...

With Western sanctions hitting the Iranian economy, the BBC looks into the effects on the pharmaceutical industry, as regular Iranians struggle to purchase the medicine they need to survive.

Dozens of Palestinians gathered in al-Beira and Gaza to hold solidarity events with prisoners in Israeli jails who are on hunger strike, most notably, Samer al-Issawi who has been on hunger strike for 206 days. Al Jazeera Arabic reports.

After US President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union Address that more than half of the American forces in Afghanistan would be withdrawn this year, the Afghan government expressed its readiness to take over security missions in the...

Coalition talks to form the new government in Israel continue, with rampant speculation surrounding the closed door negotiations. The Likud party, is looking to break up the unofficial partnership of the right wing Yesh Atid and Bait Yehudi; both ...

A general strike closed many stores and banks in the Pakastani city of Karachi today. The strike was held to protest against sectarian violence that is dominating the city, killing more than 2,000 people in the past year.