Ten Turkish soldiers and eight civilians were killed on Sunday when suspected Kurdish militants detonated a five-ton truck bomb that ripped through a checkpoint near a military outpost in the country’s southeast, the prime minister said.

Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba, to be fully covered in its new Kiswa (the cloth that covers the Kaaba), on Monday.

Expressing his deep regrets on the critical situation of the Middle East, the eminent Iranian Sunni leader urged the world powers just follow their interests as ‘war on terror’ is bluff.

Muslims around the world should come to the aid of their brothers and sisters in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, Sheikh Yusuf al- Qaradawi, head of the Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars, told Anadolu Agency in an exclusive interview.

More than 500 Muslim leaders and clerics from 30 countries met in Istanbul on Friday to warn that the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site that is located in Jerusalem, was in danger.

The UN Security Council will vote on two rival resolutions on Syria on Saturday, one drafted by France calling for an end to air raids on Aleppo and a second by Russia that makes no mention of a halt to the bombings.

Morocco’s ruling moderate Islamist party won most seats in Friday’s parliamentary election, with a rival party that critics say is too close to the palace coming second in a tight race with 90 percent of votes counted, officials said on Saturday.

Israeli tanks shelled the Gaza Strip after a rocket from the Palestinian enclave hit an open field on Thursday, the second such exchange of fire in two days, officials said.

The Israeli navy has seized the Zaytouna-Oliva, a Gaza-bound aid ship, and is currently towing it towards the Israeli port city of Ashdod, according to the initiative’s organizers and reports in the Israeli media.

Muslim refugees constitute nearly half of all refugees admitted to the U.S. in 2016, a new study revealed Wednesday.