The Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called on Muslims worldwide to stage a “Friday of rage” Dec. 9 to show solidarity with Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority.

The main Fiqh academy of the Iranian Sunni community, Islamic Fiqh Academy of Iranian Sunnis, held its 22nd meeting in Darululoom Zahedan on 3-4 Dec. 2016.

All 48 people on board a Pakistani passenger plane, which crashed in the country’s mountainous north, have died, the airline’s chairman has confirmed.

At least 52 people – including many women and children – have been killed when air strikes by Iraqi forces mistakenly targeted civilians gathering in the ISIL-held western city of al-Qaim, military officials told Al Jazeera.

At least 29 civilians were killed and scores of others were injured on Tuesday in airstrikes launched by the Assad regime’s aircrafts over Idlib and Aleppo, according to a civil defense official.

The city’s police is investigating a bias crime after three men attempted to remove the headscarf of a Muslim teen at a subway station, authorities said on Friday.

The Muslim civil rights organization Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called for an immediate and thorough investigation into allegations that a five-year-old kindergarten student was harassed and assaulted by a school teacher.

Rohingya Muslims in Burma may be the victims of crimes against humanity, the UN’s rights agency has said.

Civilians in rebel-held eastern Aleppo are expressing desperation over their survival as fighting between the government and the opposition carves deeper into their half of the city.

Some 20,000 people have fled intensified attacks on rebel-held eastern Aleppo in Syria since Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday.