Zahran Alloush, the commander of the best organised group in the Damascus area, has been killed in an air strike, with conflicting claims about who carried out the attack.

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake has struck northeast Afghanistan near the country’s borders with Pakistan and Tajikistan, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), with tremors being felt as far as New Delhi.

Five people were killed and 10 others were injured after Russian warplanes targeted a mosque during Friday prayer in Aleppo, Syrian Civil Defense sources told Anadolu Agency.

Latest reports from southern Afghanistan suggest that Sangin district in Helmand province is now almost entirely under Taliban control after days of fierce fighting.

Malaysia’s first Islamically observant airline began operations on Sunday, with its maiden flight from the capital to the resort island of Langkawi.

At least 200 civilians have been killed in Russian air strikes in Syria, an Amnesty International report says, quoting witnesses and activists.

Greek parliament has unanimously adopted a resolution urging its government to recognize the Palestinian state.

In the deadliest attack on foreign troops since August, six US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Monday when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked their patrol.

Joint Russian-Syrian military operations in Syria have included the extensive use of cluster munitions, resulting in civilian casualties, Human Rights Watch has claimed.

Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand is on the verge of falling to the Taliban, with 90 soldiers killed in fierce clashes, its deputy governor said Sunday, imploring Kabul for intervention in an unusual Facebook post.