
Pakistan launched a nationwide security crackdown Friday, officials said, after a bomb ripped through a crowded Sufi shrine killing at least 70 people including 20 children and wounding hundreds. Police had cordoned off the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, a 13th century Muslim saint, early Friday as forensic investigators reached ...

Saudi security forces have arrested 18 suspects with ties to cluster cells loyal to the ‘jihadist’ ISIL group, the interior ministry said on Thursday. They were arrested over the past week during raids on “terrorist cluster cells” in the capital Riyadh, the neighboring Qasim district and the holy western cities ...