Tensions are high in parts of India’s northeastern Tripura state after a string of attacks against minority Muslims seen as retaliation for the violence against Hindus in neighboring Bangladesh earlier this month
Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Facebook in India dithered in curbing hate speech and anti-Muslim content on its platform and lacked enough local language moderators to stop misinformation
A party spokesman and witnesses say thousands of supporters of a banned radical Islamist party departed the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore, clashing for a second straight day with police who lobbed tear gas into the crowd
The Islamic State group says its members are responsible for a deadly suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan
Suicide bombers have struck a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan that was packed with worshippers attending Friday prayers
A hospital official says at least seven people were killed and 13 wounded in an explosion during Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan
A Taliban spokesman says an explosion struck a mosque in southern Afghanistan during the weekly Friday prayer service typically attended by large crowds of worshippers
Four years after Beijing launched a brutal crackdown that swept up to a million or more Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities into detention camps and prisons, its control of China’s far west Xinjiang region has entered a new era