Palestinian leaders have welcomed a decision by the United Nations cultural agency to adopt a resolution on occupied East Jerusalem that sharply criticises Israeli policies around the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, while Israel says it ignores Jewish ties to the key holy site.

A short truce seems to be faltering in Syria’s Aleppo, after activists reported Syrian activists say warplanes struck two rebel-held villages shortly after Russian and Syrian airstrikes were halted.

A Muslim Spaniard has reportedly walked more than 9,000 kilometres to perform Umrah after setting off from Paris five and a half months ago.

Three members of an anti-Muslim militia on Friday faced charges of conspiring to detonate explosives at an apartment complex where members of a local Somali community reside in the state of Kansas.

Denouncing aerial strikes on the ‘innocent people’ of Yemen and Syria, the prominent Islamic scholar expressed his deep concerns in his Friday speech of Oct. 14, 2016.

Israel has suspended cooperation with UNESCO a day after the United Nations cultural body passed a resolution that sharply criticised Israeli policies around the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, while supposedly rejecting Jewish ties to the holy site in occupied East Jerusalem.

Syria’s Aleppo city was the scene of mass carnage on Wednesday with at least 81 civilians killed in air strikes on rebel-held neighbourhoods, a local rescue group said.

At least 14 Afghan civilians have been killed in a bomb blast outside a mosque in northern Balkh province, a day after a deadly gun attack on Shia worshippers at a shrine in the capital, Kabul.

A 10-year-old Palestinian boy was killed along the Gazan border late Wednesday, with a Palestinian official and an eyewitness accusing Israel but the army denying any exchange of fire.

Neither is Narendra Modi interested in Balochistan nor Nawaz Sharif in Kashmir. Instead, their own political interests make them speak about the two places, Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) chief Akhtar Mengal said on Sunday.