Myanmar rejected as unbalanced comments made by several Nobel Peace Prize winners calling for an end to the persecution of Rohingya Muslims.

At least 72 people have been killed in Syria’s northern Aleppo province by barrel bombs dropped from government helicopters, activists say.

A suicide bomber has blown himself up inside a mosque in Nigeria’s Maiduguri city killing at least 16 people, local sources said, after a night-time attack blamed on Boko Haram fighters on the outskirts of the city.

Gunmen disguised as members of the Pakistani security forces killed at least 22 passengers on Friday night after forcing them off buses travelling from the western city of Quetta to Karachi on the southern coast, officials said.

On Friday thirty Muslim students were denied entry to the De Mot-Couvreur institute in Brussels for wearing long skirts.

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.