At least 80 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a massive suicide truck bomb blast at a petrol station south of Iraq’s capital Baghdad, according to security sources.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni scholar has written letters to the Iranian foreign minister and Somalian president asking them to make their efforts to release the Iranian Baloch sailors captured by some pirates of Somalia.

Business and political leaders from around the Islamic world will meet in Istanbul starting Monday to discuss and address the economic challenges their countries face.

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.

Over 800 structures have been destroyed in Burma’s Rakhine State, where five different ethnic Rohingya villages lie, between November 10 to 18, Human Rights Watch reported on Monday.

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.

Police in the capital of Ottawa are investigating after a mosque was spray-painted with hate words, Canadian media reported Friday.

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.