Sweden, France and Egypt on Saturday requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council following Israeli-Palestinian unrest in Jerusalem, diplomats said.

Ahead of forming new cabinet by president Rouhani, 20 Sunni members of the Majlis (parliament) have asked the president to “use elites of Sunnis in the 12th government.”

India has revoked the passport of Islamic preacher Zakir Naik after he repeatedly ignored requests to present himself before the India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA).

A prominent Islamic scholar in Iranian Baluchistan, Mawlana Mohammad Anwar Mollazahi passed away on Monday evening July 17 after suffering from serious wounds in a road accident.

Israeli police shot dead three Palestinians who they claimed carried out an armed attack inside the flashpoint Al-Aqsa compound.

The UN’s envoy for Syria on Monday, July 10 opened a new round of indirect talks, the seventh so far, between Syrian government representatives and opposition leaders to try to wind down the battered country’s civil war, The Associated Press reports.

A male suspect has been arrested in connection to an acid attack on two Muslims, according to a statement Sunday by Metropolitan Police.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced “victory” over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the city of Mosul, his office said.

An open-ended cease-fire in southern Syria brokered by the United States and Russia has come into effect.

Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid alluded to the title of “Islamic Republic” of Iran and termed “equality” and promotion of “tolerance” in accordance with being Islamic and republic.