KABUL: Eight women were killed and eight women wounded in a NATO air strike east of Kabul, an Afghan official said Sunday, adding that an investigation had been ordered.

Six U.S. fighter jets were destroyed and two significantly damaged when insurgents stormed a heavily fortified Afghan base where Britain’s Prince Harry is deployed on Friday, a NATO spokesman said.

IRAN-ZAHEDAN: Tens of thousands Sunni citizens protested following Friday prayers anti-Islam film, that sparked Muslims’ vehement reaction across the world, in Zahedan city of Iran. SunniOnline’s correspondent reported that following the call of Shaikh Abdol-Hameed, Khateeb of Sunnis in Zahedan, thousands of Sunnis took to the Khayyam road of Zahedan after Friday prayers in the […]

The new academic year (1433-34 H.Q) of the greatest Sunni seminary of Iran, Darululoom Zahedan, was started on Wednesday, 12th Sep. at Darululoom Zahedan, Iran by reading of the first Hadith of Sahih al-Bukhari.

More than 310 workers have been killed and several others injured in separate fire incidents at two factories in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore and the southern city of Karachi.

Factory fires that broke out in two major cities in Pakistan have killed at least 80 people and injured dozens more, including some who had to leap from windows to escape the flames, officials and survivors have said.   Workers recounted on Wednesday how their colleagues were trapped behind blocked exits, and firefighters said that […]

Iran-Sanandaj: The Iranian intelligence officials in ‘Kurdistan’ have detained a prominent Sunni activist, Shaikh Hashem Hussein-Panahi from his home in Sanandaj, Kurdistan.

An explosion near the US consulate in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar has killed at least three people, police say.

The outstanding leader of the Iranian Sunni community, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Ismaeelzahi, has sent a blunt letter to the newly-appointed General Secretary of the state-run Forum for Proximity of Islamic Sects, Ayatollah Mohsen Araki. Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunnah in Zahedan reminded the G.S some of the important issues and problems of the Sunni community in Iran.

Adding to Tajik Muslims struggle for hijab, women in the ex-Soviet Muslim-majority country are facing health problems from low-cost headscarves imported from China as the government continues its crackdown on the religious outfit.