Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at Israel late Saturday, Israel’s army said, prompting retaliatory strikes on the territory’s rulers Hamas as tensions rose after another day of violent border clashes.

Iranian First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri has announced that Homeira Rigi had been selected as the ambassador of Iran to Brunei. Jahangiri was in a trip to Sistan-Baluchistan province last week.   

Newly elected U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was sworn into the House of Representatives on Thursday wearing a traditional Palestinian thobe, or dress, sparking a movement on social media.

A Turkish charity agency handed out some 51,000 copies of Quran, Muslim holy book, in 10 countries and regions in 2018, the aid group said on Thursday.

Today morning the most influential Iranian Sunni leader, Mawlana Abdol-Hamid arrived in Muscat where he was welcomed and received by different classes of people.

Khateeb of Sunnis in Zahedan alluded to the wildfire took lives of four students at a primary school in Zahedan city and described it “very bitter, sorrowful and shocking”. He called on the related officials to equip schools with all necessary facilities.

At least 168 people have been killed and over 700 injured after a volcano-triggered tsunami hit both sides of Indonesia’s Sunda Strait on Saturday, sending a wall of water crashing some 20 metres inland and sweeping away hundreds of homes and hotels, officials and witnesses have said.

Three Palestinians were killed and dozens others injured on Friday when the Israeli occupation forces violently quelled the Great March of Return on Gaza border.

Afghan officials on Friday played down the consequences of the possible withdrawal of some 7,000 American troops from the country.

Shaikh Abdol-Hamid urged on open-mindness and taking benefit from viewpoints of opponents and supporters to save the country from ongoing crises.