The Taliban in Afghanistan yesterday admitted covering up longtime leader Mullah Omar's death for two years, saying they had wanted to keep it secret until foreign forces ended their fight against the militants.

The mayor of a remote, Islamic State-held town in western Iraq said yesterday that some 200 residents have been detained by the group at an unknown

The Afghan Taliban have confirmed covering up their former leader Mullah Omar's death for more than two years.

A special tribunal jailed two top brass of a textile company for four years in a case filed over capital market manipulation in 1996.

Police here yesterday arrested six accused in a case for killing three alleged abductors on August 25.

Italian energy giant ENI yesterday announced the discovery of the "largest ever" offshore natural gas field in the Mediterranean inside Egypt's territorial waters.

At least 11 people were killed and 219 injured in Saudi Arabia yesterday when a fire broke out at a residential complex in the eastern city of Khobar housing

Saudi women for the first time began to register as candidates yesterday for municipal polls in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom where they face a host of restrictions, including a driving ban.

An air strike by warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition killed 36 civilians working at a bottling plant in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah yesterday, residents said.

Australian Al-Jazeera reporter Peter Greste yesterday called for Egypt's president to pardon him and two colleagues handed prison sentences in a shock ruling that sparked international condemnation and which he described as "politically motivated".

The Islamic State jihadist group has executed more than 90 people, a third of them civilians, over the past month in areas of war-torn Syria under its control, a monitoring group said yesterday.

Tens of thousands of protesters from across Lebanon flocked to a mass rally yesterday in downtown Beirut against a political class

Three people have been arrested in Libya on suspicion of involvement in launching a boat packed with migrants.

A 30-kilometre long tailback was created on both sides of Dhaka-Sylhet highway following suspension of vehicular movement due to repair work of a bridge in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria this morning.

A housewife was killed allegedly by her drug addict husband at Uttarbaddi village in Begumganj upazila of the district on Wednesday.

Aman plants on about 15,000 bighas of land have been damaged by flood water at 120 affected villages in five upazilas of the district.

Ruling Awami League-backed panel bagged the Bangladesh Bar Council elections in a landslide victory over BNP-Jamaat panel.

Police yesterday arrested seven people at Mundumala in Tanore upazila for allegedly torturing an indigenous woman to death.

A youth was electrocuted in Birampur upazila of the district yesterday. The dead is Mizanur Rahman, son of Mahmud Hasan of Bhaduria

The charge framing in the case under the Explosive Substances Act, linked to former finance minister SAMS Kibria murder case, has been