Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a groundbreaking ceremony next month for a Hindu temple on a disputed site in northern India where a 16th century mosque was torn down by Hindu hard-liners in 1992

The Taliban say they are ready for talks with Afghanistan’s political leadership after the Muslim holiday of Eid ul Adha at the end of July, offering to hand over the last of the government prisoners in a week’s time, providing the government frees the last of its Taliban prisoners

Pakistani authorities have returned a 200-year-old Sikh temple that served as a school for Muslim girls for seven decades to the country’s tiny Sikh community in the city of Quetta

The U.S. government has imposed trade sanctions on 11 companies it says are implicated in human rights abuses in China’s Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang, including three identified in investigations by The Associated Press

Analysts and activists say minorities in Pakistan are increasingly vulnerable to Islamic extremists as Prime Minister Imran Khan vacillates between trying to forge a pluralistic nation and his conservative Islamic beliefs

China says it will retaliate against U.S. officials and institutions following Washington's imposition of sanctions on three ruling Communist Party leaders over human rights abuses in the northwestern region of Xinjiang