Canada is celebrating Islamic History Month (IHMC) in October and the government is encouraging Canadians to partake in activities across the country to build a greater understanding of Muslims.

A total of 2,832 civilians — over half of them women and children — have been killed since the U.S.-led coalition began its attacks in Syria in 2014, according to a report released on Sunday.

Note: a journalist of Daily Etemad recently interviewed Shaikh Abdol-Hamid, president of Darululoom Zahedan and Friday imam of Sunnis in Zahedan where he underlined that they never commit treason against their country.

Dozens of students took part in the 19th provincial competitions of speech, essay writing and poetry in Islamic School of Mawlana Abdol-Aziz in Zahedan, Iran. The three-day long competition was concluded on Thursday 22nd Feb. 2018.

More than 465,000 civilians have been killed in Syria’s six-year civil war, a refugee rights group said Saturday.

Iranian Sunni MPs and scholars in the Western province of Kermanshah denounced distortion of Shaikh Abdol-Hamid’s speech about the earthquake in Kermanshah and Iraqi Kurdistan.

Recently a popular Iranian daily newspaper interviewed Shaikh Abdol-Hamid in Zahedan, the most influential Iranian Sunni leader. The journalist of the paper asked him questions on different domestic and regional issues. Here is a summary of his interview:

The most influential Iranian Sunni scholar urged on equality between Shia and Sunni communities terming discrimination the main reason of extremism in the region.

Turkey’s Ministry of National Education integrated nearly half a million Syrian children into the education system in the 2016-2017 academic year, according to official data.

*I always prefer the national interest, then the interests of the Sunni community [of Iran].