A teacher of a primary school in Antwerp has been accused of hanging a 5-year-old student by his neck in the school’s playground after the child refused to stand in a line, according to a report in OnIslam.

Eight people were killed on Saturday and another 22 injured in separate attacks in Iraq’s violence-plagued Baghdad and Diyala provinces, according to local security sources.

Outgoing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned on Sunday the “aggression” committed by the Israeli army on Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound.

IRAN – IRANSHAHR: Mawlana Abdol-Hamid Bozorgzadeh, an eminent scholar in Iranshahr city of Iranian Baluchistan, passed away today noon in his hometown.

Saudi Arabia has received around 2.5 million Syrians since the start of the conflict in their country, an official source in the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has revealed, elaborating that the Kingdom has adopted a policy not to treat these Syrians as refugees, or place them in refugee camps “in order to ensure […]

As Saudi Arabia promised to open investigation on Saturday after the death of at least 107 pilgrims in the crash of a huge crane in the Grand Mosque in Makkah, world leaders expressed condolences over the incident.

The Egyptian cabinet has submitted its resignation to president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi who has accepted the resignation. The Egyptian agriculture minister resigned last week amid corruption allegations.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader called on the authorities to give priority to employment of local residents in industrial units.

At least 107 people have been killed after a crane toppled over at Mecca’s Grand Mosque, less than two weeks before Islam’s annual Hajj pilgrimage.

Hungarian police said on Friday they had launched an investigation after an online video showed a crowd of refugees clamouring for food in a hangar at a reception centre as police in surgical masks throw out packs of sandwiches.