At least five Saudi women have won seats on local municipal councils a day after women voted and ran in elections for the first time in the country’s history, according to initial results released Sunday. The five women hail from vastly different parts of the country, ranging from Saudi Arabia’s second largest and most cosmopolitan […]

Air and missile strikes on a school district and other areas in insurgent-held Damascus suburbs killed at least 28 people on Sunday, including two children and a school principal, a group monitoring the Syrian war said.

At least 25 people were killed and 62 injured on Sunday when a device containing about 35 kilograms of explosives ripped through a makeshift market in Parachinar town of Kurram tribal region, residents and hospital sources said.

The president of the Gambia has declared his country is now “an Islamic state,” his office said Saturday, adding that “the rights of the citizens” would be protected.

At least 16 people were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday in the central Syrian city of Homs after a car bomb exploded near a hospital.

When a mosque in suburban Virginia became the target of a firebomb attack, faith leaders decided that rather than turn inward, it was the moment to embrace the local community.

Taliban militants have attacked a foreign guesthouse in Kabul’s embassy district, causing several casualties.

Israeli military forces have killed three more Palestinians amid simmering tensions in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Following the release of a biased report in “Jomhuri Islami” newspaper, (issue No. 10473 on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015) about the wedding ceremony of the son of Mawlana Abdol-Hamid on “Arba’een Day”, the office of Friday Imam of Sunnis in Zahedan denied the content of this news.

Note: the circle of the massacres and conflicts widely spreads every day that adds to the number of victims of civil wars. The policy of regional countries and the interventions of some international powers in the current crises of the Middle East have intensified the disputations and distance between various Muslim countries.