Around two million Muslims are gathering near Saudi Arabia’s Mecca for the peak day of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

Issuing a statement, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid decried the invasion of some foreign troops in Allamah Taftazani mosque and Darululoom Aali Herat, Afghanistan.

Civilians fleeing the battle to oust ISIL from the Syrian city of Raqqa face a “deadly labyrinth”, with fire coming from “all sides”, rights group Amnesty International has warned.

At least 250 US-led airstrikes have pounded the Syrian city of Raqqa and surrounding territory in the past week, the coalition fighting Daesh said on Tuesday.

A blast in the Pakistani city of Quetta in Balochistan province has killed at least 15 people and injured 32 others, reports say, in an incident blamed by the military on “terrorists”.

A suicide bombing killed at least 25 opposition fighters in southern Syria late Friday, according to a pro-opposition activist.

Airstrikes by a US-led coalition fighting ISIS killed at least 29 civilians including 14 children in 24 hours in the extremists’ Syrian capital of Raqqa, a war monitor said late on Tuesday.

Over 850,000 refugees will receive special debit cards by August financed by the European Union and implemented by the Turkish Red Crescent, according to European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) in Turkey.

A suicide attack at a packed Shia mosque in the western Afghan province of Herat has killed dozens of people and injured scores, officials and eyewitnesses said.

Lawmakers voted Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the former petroleum minister, prime minister on Tuesday following last week’s resignation of Nawaz Sharif.