The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) has cancelled plans for a mobile prayer room in Gangneung for tourists at the 2018 Winter Olympics after strong opposition by anti-Muslim campaigners, the city tourism department’s chief told Al Jazeera.

Russian pilot was killed in Syria on Saturday after parachuting into rebel-held territory when his plane was shot down, the Defense Ministry said.

At least 11 soldiers were killed and 13 wounded on Saturday in a suicide attack near an army base in northern Pakistan, officials said, in a region that was once controlled by a local faction of the Taliban.

Israeli warplanes bombed a site in the Gaza Strip at dawn Friday without causing any casualties, a Palestinian security source said.

A British man was found guilty on Thursday of murder and attempted murder after deliberately driving into a group of people outside a London mosque.

Donald Trump confirmed this week that he would keep the Guantanamo Bay detention facility open, a move experts say is unsurprising yet will likely mean that several dozen remaining detainees will not be able to leave the infamous prison.

At least 95 people have been killed and 158 were wounded in a powerful suicide blast in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Following the deadly explosion in the Sanchi oil tanker of Iran near China, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid issued a condolence message expressing his sympathy with the families of the victims.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader criticized provincial authorities over forbidding him to travel to Rameshk city of Kerman province.

Ten people, including six civilians and four armed assailants were killed during the siege of the Intercontinental Hotel in capital Kabul that finally came to an end on Sunday, according to a Ministry of Interior official.