With the Syrian regime’s continuous bombardments and airstrikes on southwestern Daraa, thousands of displaced civilians are trying to escape to safety away from the military operations and near the Jordanian border and the areas close to the occupied Golan Heights.

Approximately 80 percent of the 10,000 Myanmar Muslims living near the Thai border are “stateless”, a London-based rights group said Tuesday.

The head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Nihad Awad, congratulated the Turkish nation for the successful election, saying that a high voter turnout marked the polls.

At least 17 Palestinians were injured during clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, according to a local Palestinian NGO.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the country’s key presidential vote, electoral officials have said, in a result that will allow him to keep his seat with increased powers and become Turkey’s first executive president.

Authorities in Puntland state of Somalia have released 17 Baloch fishermen after 7 months. The most influential Sunni scholar has asked the authorities to pardon and release them.

Hours after the Eid speech of Iranshahr’s grand Friday imam, Iranians in social media showed their anger and asked for immediate investigation and trial of the culprits.

Shaikh Abdol-Hamid pointed out to changes in the global circumstances in all fields and urged on reviewing and changing internal and foreign policies of the country. He termed changing the policies a need of time and Iranian nation’s demand.

After three years, four Iranian Baloch fishermen have been freed and reached Tehran. The abducted men belong to Iranian Sistan-Balochistan province.

The Taliban in Afghanistan on Saturday announced a three-day truce for the forthcoming Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr in an apparent reply to the earlier unilateral ceasefire announced by the Afghan government for nine days.