Thousands of people across Sweden rallied on Friday against a series of arson attacks on mosques in the past week.

Zahedan- A prominent Sunni scholar, Qari Abdul-Lateef Baranzahi, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014 in Zahedan.

Another top Bangladeshi Islamic leader, A.T.M. Azharul Islam, was sentenced to death on Tuesday, December 30, for rape, mass murder and genocide, charges vehemently denied by supporters who threatened a nationwide strike.

Stormy weather has forced Indonesian search teams to suspend the recovery of the bodies of 162 people aboard the ill-fated AirAsia plane which crashed into the Java Sea.

A mosque was attacked in the southeast Swedish town of Eskilstuna Thursday night just hours after another mosque in the same town came under arson attack, a Swedish newspaper reported.

Iran’s Human Rights Defenders have given this year’s Human Rights Activist award to Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi, Friday Imam of Sunnis in Zahedan.

The rector of Darululoom Zahedan, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi, left Zahedan to Madinah al-Munawwarah for Umrah on Thursday evening, Dec. 18, 2014.

Islamist fighters clashed with pro-government forces for the second consecutive day Sunday as they pressed an advance on a key oil region in eastern Libya, sources on both sides reported, according to Agence-France Presse.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader termed the recent report of the US Senate on the brutality and deception of CIA a ‘big defamation’ for the USA in his latest sermon on Dec. 12, 2014 in Zahedan, Iran.

The number of Britons choosing to become Muslims has nearly doubled in the past decade, with one of the most comprehensive attempts to estimate how many people have embraced Islam, according to news source the Independent.