A “significant increase” of air strikes on Syrian hospitals recently has killed at least 35 patients and medical staff and wounded 72, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday.

New knife attacks on Israelis in the West Bank left a soldier lightly injured Thursday, while two Palestinian assailants were shot dead by security forces, police and the army said.

Stressing that “Sunnis do not believe in mourning in Muharram month”, Mawlana Muhammad Hussein Gorgij asked school principals, jail authorities and barracks to not force Sunnis for participating in mourning ceremonies.

Two Palestinians were shot dead after allegedly stabbing and wounding an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.

The death toll from a powerful 7.7-Richter earthquake that hit several regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan has risen to 339.

Muslim religious officials in occupied East Jerusalem say Israeli police have blocked them from installing security cameras at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, despite a new agreement to place the surveillance equipment there.

A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake has struck in northern Afghanistan and has been felt in a large area from northern India to Pakistan with scores of people killed across the region.

Molawi Abdol-Ghaffar Naqshbandi, the son of Mawlana Fathee-Mohammad, along with some other residents of Raask city of Iranian Baluchistan, have been released this week on heavy bails.

Recent rainfall in Sistan & Baluchistan province has caused heavy losses on residents of Daeeabad, a north-eastern outskirt of Zahedan, Iran.

An eminent scholar of Sunnis in Iran stated “Sunni scholars are not aligned and affiliated with any criminal”, criticizing the baseless allegations of some extremist groups on Shaikh Abdol-Hamid and other Sunni scholars.