At least three people were killed and 19 were wounded in a blast inside Rehmania mosque in Quetta’s Pashtoonabad area during Friday prayers

The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis unfolding in Syria’s northwest province of Idlib, as Western powers challenged Syria and its ally Russia to provide assurances that attacks on hospitals and schools would stop.

An air attack has killed at least eight policemen by mistake during a battle with the Taliban outside the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the United States military and Afghan officials said.

Muslims all around the world are getting ready to welcome the holy month of Ramadan, which begins on Sunday evening in Turkey.

At least nine civilians were killed in Syrian government air raids in northwest Idlib province as its forces and their Russian allies continued bombarding the last rebel-held stronghold for a sixth consecutive day.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered “massive strikes” on the Gaza Strip after a two-day escalation that killed nine Palestinians and three Israelis.

About 22,000 Israeli settlers have flocked to al-Khalil city in the occupied West Bank to visit the Ibrahimi Mosque compound to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Passover, Hebrew media sources said on Tuesday.

Suicide bombers and fighters attacked the communications ministry in the centre of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, killing two people in an hours-long assault that destroyed weeks of relative calm.

Russian air strikes killed at least 13 civilians, including six children, Wednesday in Idlib province, in the first such raids since a September truce deal, a monitor said.

Peace talks between the Taliban and the US are progressing on a “step-by-step” basis, a spokesman from the militant group said on Sunday, following a bloody attack on a joint US-Afghan base claimed by the insurgents.