Saudi Arabia launched a high-speed railway Tuesday connecting Islam’s holiest cities.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will inaugurate in the German city of Cologne one of the largest mosques in Europe on Saturday.

The number of converted Muslims in Norway increased to at least 3,000 in the recent years, a researcher at Oslo University’s Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages said.

Shaikh Abdol-Hamid warned on monopolization of universities and educational institutes and criticized discriminative policies which deprive Sunnis from education.

An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 66 people to life in prison, including Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie, over an August 2013 attack on a police station in Minya.

An Israeli warplane on Saturday struck the northern Gaza Strip but apparently caused no casualties.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says a Palestinian has been killed and dozens injured by Israeli fire at a border protest.

A Pakistani court has suspended the jail sentences given to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and two family members by an anti-corruption court earlier this year, with the three expected to be released after the payment of a bail bond.

Russia’s defense ministry said on Tuesday that one of its military aircrafts with 15 people on board disappeared from radar screens over Syria because it was shot down inadvertantly by Syrian military.

The leaders of Russia and Turkey have agreed to establish a de-militarised zone in Syria’s Idlib province, in a move that ostensibly puts on hold a threatened all-out assault by government forces on Syria’s last rebel bastion.