Dozens of people have been killed in a powerful suicide bomb blast that targeted a large gathering of top religious figures in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, according to officials.

Ameer Tableeghi Jamaat Haji Abdul Wahab passed away at Raiwind, Lahore on Sunday after a protracted illness. He was 96.

Attacks by the Syrian regime and pro-regime terrorist groups in Syria’s northwestern Idlib de-escalation zone killed a mother and her child, said an official Saturday.

At least seven Palestinians, including a Hamas military commander, were martyred and another seven injured late Sunday in an Israeli raid in southern Gaza Strip, said officials.

US-led coalition air strikes killed 26 civilians including 14 children Friday in a holdout of ISIS in eastern Syria, a Britain-based war monitor said.

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire Friday during clashes along the Gaza-Israel border, the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave said.

The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) held its fifth General Assembly in Istanbul on Saturday.

A Pakistani political and religious leader has been killed by unknown attackers at his residence in the northern city of Rawalpindi, according to family members and officials.

Officials say an Afghan army helicopter carrying senior officials has crashed, killing all 25 on board.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted Asia Bibi, a Christian woman condemned to death on blasphemy charges after accepting her 2015 appeal against her sentence.