Reports from Pakistan say the authorities have detained at least nine people over the killing of a couple who had contracted a marriage without permission from their elders.
A monitor group says air strikes by Russian jets killed at least 53 civilians, including 21 children, in a village held by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in eastern Syria.
Pakistani Islamist activists say they will call off their weeks-long protests after reaching agreement with the government for the resignation of the country’s law minister, possibly bringing an end to days of deadly clashes in the capital.
Iraq's government has invited foreign energy firms to bid for the rights to explore for oil and gas in the country's border areas near Iran and Kuwait.
World athletics' governing body has maintained Russia's ban from international track and field, saying the country has not done enough to tackle doping.
Islamist party activists have clashed with security forces for a second day on the outskirts of Islamabad, burning vehicles before withdrawing to a protest camp they have maintained for nearly three weeks.
The United States has warned Pakistan that there will be repercussions for bilateral ties unless Islamabad takes action to detain and charge a U.S.-wanted militant accused of masterminding a deadly attack in India.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that empowers the government to designate media outlets receiving funding from abroad as "foreign agents" and impose sanctions against them.
Pakistani police have launched an operation to clear an intersection linking the capital, Islamabad, with the nearby city of Rawalpindi, where sympathizers of an Islamist group have camped out for the past three weeks.
At least four people have been killed and 22 wounded by a suicide bomber who attacked an army vehicle on the outskirts of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta.
Police have defused a bomb attached to a car carrying four journalists in northwestern Pakistan, and detained the vehicle's occupants for interrogation.
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