Syrian government forces and allied fighters advanced further into rebel-held Aleppo on Monday, pressing an offensive in defiance of international concern for the fate of the city and its beleaguered civilians.

Food has run out in eastern Aleppo and the medical sector is “kneeling under the burden of so many wounded civilians”, a senior UN humanitarian official has told The World.

An air raid has hit a children’s hospital in Syria’s rebel-held east Aleppo, forcing medical staff to evacuate patients, including several newborn babies still in incubators.

A Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s government against Iran-backed rebels declared a 48-hour ceasefire to begin in Yemen Saturday, it said in a statement on the kingdom’s SPA news agency website.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has strongly condemned the attack by Yemeni Houthis for launching a guided missile at Makkah recently.

Molawi Salahuddin Mowahhed has been assassinated at his home on Tuesday 15th Nov. 2016 in Zaranj city of Nimruz, Afghanistan.

Egypt’s top appeals court has quashed a death sentence against former President Mohamed Morsi, along with sentences against five other top Muslim Brotherhood leaders.Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected civilian president, was ousted in 2013 by the military – led by general-turned-president Abdel Fattah el-Sissi – following popular protests against his one-year rule. He will still […]

An Israeli bill that aims to bar mosques from using loudspeakers for the call to prayer (Adhan) in the occupied East Jerusalem has continued to draw more criticism on Tuesday.

US forces may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan from 2003-2004 by torturing prisoners in what appeared to be a deliberate policy, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has said.

Turkey’s Religious Affairs Presidency Foundation has rebuilt nine mosques destroyed during Israel’s military onslaught on the blockaded Gaza Strip in 2014, an official statement said on Tuesday.