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.

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who tried to ram them with a car and another who took part in a violent demonstration in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the military and medical officials said.

Dozens were killed and wounded on Tuesday after suspected Russian warplanes struck two markets in northern Syria, according to two Syrian opposition monitoring groups.