A Yazidi militia group has entered the fight against ISIS, clashing with militants near Sinjar—while Baghdad's army command objected to foreign military aid to Kurdish forces.
Faqir Jamshed Ahmad Gesu Daraz, spiritual leader of Pakistan's Seraiki people, was killed in a bomb blast while driving to a celebration at a Sufi shrine in Pakhtunkhwa province.
Forces both aligned with and against the regimes in Iraq and Syria are mobilizing in both countries to beat back ISIS—Shi'ites, Sufis, Ba'athists and the secular civil resistance.
Moroccan women protested to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane after he gave a speech urging women to stay at home and not work jobs.
ISIS announced the establishment of a new "caliphate," with its own leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as caliph. But even Islamist rebels in Syria are fighting back against ISIS forces.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Iran to halt the execution of Razieh Ebrahimi, a child bride who killed her abusive husband when she was 17.
Women's rights activist and attorney Salwa Bughaigis was assassinated at her home in Benghazi hours after she defied threats by voting in Libya's general election.
The ISIS militants that have seized Mosul are engaged in a campaign of cultural cleansing—targeting not only the citiy's inhabitants, but its artistic and historical treasures.
Ayman al-Zawahiri purged ISIS from al-Qaeda and confered the local franchise on the rival Nusra Front. But with the old Qaeda leadership moribund, ISIS now controls much of Iraq.
News that a suspect in the Brussels Jewish museum killings fought in Syria with the insurgent group ISIS comes as European police escalate their crackdown on Syria "returnees."
UN human rights experts urged Pakistan to take urgent measures against faith-based killings and protect the country's Ahmadiyya Muslim community, whose faith is now outlawed.
Iranian women by the thousands are posting their photos without a hijab on a Facebook page called My Stealthy Freedom, created by London-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad.
