Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the country’s key presidential vote, electoral officials have said, in a result that will allow him to keep his seat with increased powers and become Turkey’s first executive president.

Authorities in Puntland state of Somalia have released 17 Baloch fishermen after 7 months. The most influential Sunni scholar has asked the authorities to pardon and release them.

Hours after the Eid speech of Iranshahr’s grand Friday imam, Iranians in social media showed their anger and asked for immediate investigation and trial of the culprits.

Shaikh Abdol-Hamid pointed out to changes in the global circumstances in all fields and urged on reviewing and changing internal and foreign policies of the country. He termed changing the policies a need of time and Iranian nation’s demand.

After three years, four Iranian Baloch fishermen have been freed and reached Tehran. The abducted men belong to Iranian Sistan-Balochistan province.

The Taliban in Afghanistan on Saturday announced a three-day truce for the forthcoming Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr in an apparent reply to the earlier unilateral ceasefire announced by the Afghan government for nine days.

The number of civilians killed by Russian airstrikes in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib has risen to 35 with another 75 injured, according to local civil-defense sources.

Austria will shut seven mosques and expel 40 imams, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced on Friday.

An Israeli soldier has killed a Palestinian youth during a raid in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.

The most influential Iranian Sunni scholar criticized president Rouhani over silence of his government about the Sunni community.