Assailants have opened fire at the US consulate building and carried out a bomb attack on a police station in Istanbul, as two different attacks killed five security personnel in southeastern Turkey.

Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s ousted and imprisoned president, hinted on Saturday that he had been subject to a poisoning attempt by prison officials in a report in Middle East Monitor.

Pro-government forces in Yemen strengthened by tanks newly supplied by a Saudi-led coalition launched an offensive Saturday to retake the rebel-held capital of Abyan province, military sources said.

A bomb explosion killed at least 21 people in Afghanistan’s restive northern province of Kunduz, officials said Sunday.

Myanmar’s government blocked a UN human rights envoy from visiting conflict-torn Rakhine state this week as rights groups alleged authorities were neglecting Rohingya Muslims in their response to devastating flooding that has claimed dozens of lives.

Israel arrested several suspects on Sunday in raids linked to the firebombing of a Palestinian home in the West Bank that killed an 18-month-old child and his father, police said.

Seeking refuge in Islam, a group of Dalit families from the Bhagana village of Hisar district reverted to Islam at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Saturday, according to a local newspaper Hindustan Times.

After demolition of Pounak prayer-room of Sunnis in Tehran by the municipality and with the support of security forces, Sunni elites, figures and institutions strongly announced their reaction. “SunniOnline” reports, the Sunni elites condemned the incident and asked for re-establishment of the prayer-room and permission of building Sunni Masjids in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

An explosion probably triggered by a suicide bomber ripped through a mosque used by Saudi police Thursday killing at least 13 people in the southern city of Abha, the interior ministry said.

A suicide attacker has struck near the Kabul police academy, killing at least 20 cadets and wounding 27 others, officials said, in the second major attack in the Afghan capital in 24 hours.