Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has banned the wearing of the niqab – a full-face veil – in public institutions with immediate effect, citing security reasons.

Israeli warplanes have fired missiles targeting Syrian military positions in Homs and the Damascus outskirts in Syria in an attack that killed at least four civilians and wounded another 21, Syrian state media said.

Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi on Monday collapsed during a court session and died, state television reported.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said that 46 protesters were injured by the Israeli occupation army’s gunfire while taking part in the Great March of Return on Friday.

Protests erupted on Sunday after Israeli forces entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound along with hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews whom they allowed to access the compound on Jerusalem Day – when Israelis celebrate the anniversary of their occupation of East Jerusalem at the end of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Syrian rescue workers and activists say government warplanes have bombed the last rebel-held stronghold in the country again

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.