For anyone who has performed the Umrah or Hajj pilgrimages, they will have probably noticed the coolness under foot when they stepped onto the marble floors of the Grand Mosque and around the Holy Kaaba in Mecca.

A bomb blast ripped through a vegetable market in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal area, killing at least 20 people and wounding 50 others.

A prominent Islamic scholar of Turkmen-Sahra region of Iran passed away on Saturday 14th Jan. 2017.

President Wafaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan, Molana Saleemullah Khan passed away after a brief illness on Sunday aged 91 in Karachi.

At least nine victims were killed and 20 others injured Sunday in a suicide car bomb attack, police told Anadolu Agency.

Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti on Friday branded plans by President-elect Donald Trump to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem an “assault” on Muslims across the globe.

Iran’s ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a dominant figure in the country’s politics since the 1980s, has died at the age of 82, media say.

An Israeli soldier who shot dead a wounded Palestinian assailant as he lay on the ground posing no apparent threat was convicted of manslaughter Wednesday after a trial that deeply divided the country.

Almost 100 people from 17 western countries have formally converted to Islam at East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque over the past two years, according to mosque imam Sheikh Ekrima Said Sabri, a former grand mufti of Jerusalem.

Israeli forces detained two dozen Palestinians in overnight raids across Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli army.