“Israel is unable to defeat Gaza despite its military supremacy,” Al-Resalah newspaper reported the head of Hamas’ political bureau saying yesterday.

More than 50 people have been killed and scores more wounded in a suicide attack at a wedding ceremony in Turkey’s southeastern province of Gaziantep, near the Syria border.

Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Sunday, shortly after a rocket was fired into southern Israel.

Nearly 18,000 people died in government custody in Syria in 2011-15, an Amnesty International report says, alleging beatings and rape in prisons.

The serial of insulting the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, is not going to be over; in the recent case, a popular actor and producer in Iran insulted Talha, Zobair and Abu-Mousa Ash’ari in a comedy show.

Hundreds of civilians have been killed in both Syrian government and rebel attacks across the war-torn country in recent days, according to local activist groups.

Khairullah was a young boy when he rushed with his parents towards Peshawar, over the border in Pakistan.

Russia’s military has announced a three-hour daily halt in air strikes on Syria’s Aleppo to allow humanitarian convoys in after rebels broke a government-imposed siege of the ravaged city.

As many as 1.5 million external and domestic pilgrims are expected to perform hajj this year, the Saudi Central Hajj Committee was told.

A Pakistani Taliban faction and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have both claimed responsibility for the suicide attack at a hospital in Pakistan’s Quetta city that left at least 70 people dead.