An Egyptian court sentenced 23 activists to three years in prison for protesting without a permit, an act that violates a controversial law enacted last year.
India's Maoist rebels issued an appeal to the Naga Regiments to resist deployment as a paramilitary counter-insurgency force to guerilla-held regions of the country.
India has opted to buy Israel's Spike anti-tank guided missile, beating a rival US deal—an advance for the Tel Aviv-Delhi "anti-terrorist" alignment.
Israeli settlers torched some 100 olive trees owned by Palestinian farmers near Nablus as the year's harvest began—the latest in a pattern of such attacks.
Attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula killed at least 30 troops, one day after militants fired an anti-tank missile at a military vehicle across the Israeli line.
Clashes erupted between the Lebanese army and Sunni gunmen in the northern city of Tripoli following the arrest of a suspected ISIS leader in an army raid.
Pakistani and Iranian forces exchanged mortar fire along their border in the divided region of Baluchistan, after days of Baluch militant attacks both sides of the line.
A former Bangladeshi Islamist party leader, Ghulam Azam, who was imprisoned for war crimes last year, died of a heart attack in a prison hospital.
Thousands took to the streets of Isfahan, demanding authorities act to halt a spate of acid attacks on young women in the historic Iranian city.
Uighur exile leaders were quick to disavow an article in al-Qaeda's media service portraying harsh oppression of Muslims in "East Turkistan," or Xinjiang.
Crimean Tatars pledge to resist Russian demands that they register their Majlis as a "civic organization" and surrender "forbidden" Islamic literature.
A federal jury returned a guilty verdict for four ex-Blackwater security guards who shot and killed 14 Iraqis and wounded 17 in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad.
