At least five police officers have been killed after the Taliban stormed a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan, the interior ministry has said.

Issuing a statement, Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid decried the recent bloody attacks in the capital of Afghanistan and expressed his sympathy with the victims.

At least 90 people were killed and hundreds wounded Wednesday when a massive truck bomb ripped through Kabul’s diplomatic quarter, bringing carnage to the streets of the Afghan capital just days into the holy fasting month of Ramazan.

A mass hunger strike staged by Palestinian prisoners over conditions in Israeli jails was suspended on Saturday after a deal with Israel, officials said.

A suicide car bomber targeted vehicles belonging to members of the local police force campaign in Khost province on Saturday, local officials said.

Two blasts have rocked a public-transport terminal in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, and caused two casualties, police said on Wednesday.

Hassan Rouhani overwhelmingly won presidential election scoring 57% of votes fending off a challenge by principlist rival Ebrahim Raisi.

A leading figure of Iran’s minority Sunnis endorsed moderate President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday ahead of this week’s election, despite the government’s “shortcomings”.

At least 25 people have been killed and over 40 others injured in an explosion in Balochistan’s Mastung district, which is around an hour’s drive from the provincial capital, Quetta.

The international quarterly magazine of Neday Islam and monthly magazine of As-Sahwat-ul-Islamia have taken part in the 8th Istanbul International Press Exhibition.