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.

The UN Security Council will vote Saturday on a resolution that would endorse the cease-fire agreement in Syria brokered by Russia and Turkey, and reiterate support for a roadmap to peace that starts with a transitional government.