Shaikh Abdol-Hamid urged on focusing on the rights of all communities, terming ‘negligence of the present facts’ the main cause of crises in the Muslim world.

Four people were killed Friday when a car exploded near a mosque in Saudi Arabia’s eastern city of Dammam, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported, adding that militants failed in their bid to hit the mosque after security officials foiled the attack.

Islamophobia was on rise particularly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but it’s frequency and notoriety has increased in the U.S. during the past decade, Muslim leaders here say.

yrian fighters have seized the last government-controlled town in the country’s northwestern province after government forces retreated to their coastal bases, according to activists and a monitoring group.

In operations by Chinese occupying forces have detained 181 Uighurs in Eastern Turkestan.

Muslim residents of Atali village in Ballabgarh, Faridabad, have fled for their life, abandoning their homes, which have been torched, along with their mosques, in an attack by India Hindu Jat community earlier this week.

More than a decade after imposing hijab ban in France, Muslims in the European country complained that the ban has given “cover” to acts of discrimination against their community.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid strongly denounced the attack on a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia that left 21 dead and 30 injured.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for an overnight attack on a guesthouse in the diplomatic enclave of the Afghan capital that ended after a stand-off with government forces.

The death toll in the heatwave sweeping India has passed 1,000, with temperatures nearing 50C (122F) in some areas.