Nigeria’s parliament on Tuesday launched a probe into the refusal by the country’s law school to call a Muslim woman to the bar because she wore a head covering under her wig on religious grounds.
The Palestinian ambassador to the UN has rejected a US veto in the United Nations Security Council that called for a resolution against President Donald Trump’s recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Israeli aircraft targeted a Hamas facility in the northern Gaza Strip early Monday, hours after two rockets fired from the Palestinian enclave struck southern Israel, the army said.
At least 10 civilians, including four children and six women, were killed on Sunday in an airstrike by Russian jets in Syria’s Idlib province, the Syrian defense officials said.
Two days before he was killed, Ibrahim Abu Thurayyah filmed a message to the Israeli army.
Ali Younesi criticized Shia extremists of Iran who can “easily infiltrate” in state-run departments and put pressure on official bureaus.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has declared East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, rejected the US stance as “dangerous”, and called on the international community to follow in its footsteps.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to a Russian base in Syria and ordered his troops to start withdrawing from the war-torn country.
Arab foreign ministers on Sunday urged the United States to abandon its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, saying the move would increase violence throughout the region.
At least two people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian health ministry.