An Egyptian artist who educated himself after dropping out of school has spent three years creating what he hopes is the world’s biggest Quran.

At least eight people were killed in a large explosion in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, officials said, with reports saying the target was a NATO convoy.

Pakistan on Tuesday welcomed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s offer to aid dialogue between Pakistan and India to resolve the lingering Kashmir dispute.

“More than 50 Afghan soldiers have been killed” in a Taliban attack Friday on their base near the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a US military spokesman told AFP.

Malaysian minister Datuk Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki lamented that Muslims here care more about the halal status of their food, compared to the status of their source of income, Malay Mail Online reported on Friday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has welcomed the “Yes” vote in the referendum to amend Turkey’s constitution and grant the country’s presidential office new executive powers.

Nearly 70 children were among those killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, a monitor said on Sunday.

The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss a chemical weapons attack in Syria that has killed scores of people, amid a continuing global chorus of condemnation over the incident.

A suspected chemical attack in Syria has drawn international condemnation, with the United States, France and Britain all pointing the finger at President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

A total of 19 Palestinian refugees were killed in war-torn Syria in March, a London-based NGO has said.