The Palestinian unity government will resign, President Mahmoud Abbas has announced.

Libya’s recognised government says that the leader of an al-Qaeda-linked group in Algeria, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, has been killed in a coordinated attack with the US.

A Muslim couple were verbally abused by a group of teenage girls in a Greater Manchester tram, in an attack that sparked angry comments from social media users.

At least 17 policemen have been killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand province after “hundreds of Taliban fighters” attacked the police compound, officials said.

The United States says it has sent another six Yemeni detainees from its controversial Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to Oman for resettlement.

Eight Houthi miltias were killed and 11 others injured during clashes with the Yemeni Popular Resistance – allied to internationally-recognized President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi – in the southwestern city of Taez, Al Arabiya New Channel reported on Wednesday.

Masked men attacked a mosque in Massachusetts Wednesday that left several windows broken, an official and a community leader said.

Worried about the latest surge of anti-Muslim hate crimes, Canadian Muslim groups have launched a national campaign to combat hatred, educate Canadians about the ramifications of hate crimes and to help find ways to address this phenomenon.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accepted the government’s resignation in a procedural move following a recent parliamentary election.

At least 49 civilians, including six children, were killed on Monday in Syrian government air strikes on a town in Idlib province in the country’s northwest, a monitoring group said.