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In Pakistan, the provincial Punjab Assembly passed a landmark legislation last week, criminalizing all forms of violence against women. A few days later, the Council of Islamic Ideology, a federal advisory body, ruled the law as...

Torn along tribal lines and beset with political chaos, Libya is in the eye of ISIS storm that may further extend the arc of instability rattling the Middle East and North Africa since 2011 Arab Spring...

A group of conservative foreign policy experts, former GOP presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney mounted attacks on unexpected frontrunner Donald Trump, whose campaign train appears to be unstoppable after Super Tuesday victories over Ted...

Reflecting growing American demographic diversity, the U.S. electorate for the 2016 election will be the country’s most racially and ethnically diverse ever, and a series of figures and statistics cited in a Pew Research analysis indicate possible...

In a strong rebuttal to ambience of hatred against Muslim Americans fueled partly by some presidential candidates, President Barack Obama has urged Americans to stay true to their core values that includes freedom of religion for...

Tunisia, the birthplace of Arab Spring revolutions, is in once again in the grip of demonstrations, which are testing the nascent democracy sternly. Five years after the Tunisian youth ousted a dictatorial regime and earned unprecedented...

Five yeas ago Egyptians launched the Arab Spring uprising on January 25, when, inspired by the Tunisian demonstrations, men and women from almost all segments of the society raised their full throttle but mostly peaceful demand...

Last year, when I watched with horror a documentary telling tales of children caught in the crosshairs of Syrian civil war, I wondered if the excruciating accounts would jolt the world out of inaction after the...

In a development holding out wide-ranging implications, the United States and Europe Saturday lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for Teheran’s implementation of its end of last year’s nuclear deal that stops the oil-rich Persian nation...

The impact of information technologies on everyday human activity has been so sweeping that for majority of populations in the digitally connected world life is viewed in two broad ways: online and offline. Increasingly, productivity, GDP...