Dozens of students took part in the 19th provincial competitions of speech, essay writing and poetry in Islamic School of Mawlana Abdol-Aziz in Zahedan, Iran. The three-day long competition was concluded on Thursday 22nd Feb. 2018.

As the death toll in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta surpasses 470, a UN Security Council vote on a draft resolution seeking a 30-day ceasefire across the country is under way.

Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF) has said that at least 13 hospitals and clinics in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta that are regularly or ad-hoc supported by organization have been hit, damaged or destroyed over the past three days.

Top UN officials demanded an immediate cessation of aerial attacks on Syria’s devastated Eastern Ghouta with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calling the rebel-held enclave “hell on Earth”.

At least 167 civilians have been killed in past two days by intensified Syrian regime attacks in the Damascus suburbs of Eastern Ghouta, said sources from the Syrian Civil Defense on Tuesday.

The office of Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid confirmed the reports released in social media about an assassination attempt foiled recently in Zahedan, provincial capital of Sistan-Baluchistan.

At least 100 civilians, 20 of them children were killed in a Syrian army bombardment of the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, a war monitor reported in a new toll Tuesday.

An Iranian passenger plane with 66 people on board has crashed in central Iran during a flight from Tehran to the city of Yasuj, according to Iranian news media reports.

Mawlana Abdol-Hamid warned of consequences of dividing Sistan-Baluchistan province in his Friday speech of Feb. 16, 2018 calling on pro-division elements to make efforts for removing discriminations and creating jobs.

Two Palestinians were killed after Israel hit Hamas-linked targets in Gaza on Saturday, according to a Palestinian Health Ministry official.