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.

The eminent Iranian Sunni leader has urged on the implementation of the due rights of the Sunni community in Iran and end of discrimination against them.

A Tennessee man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years behind bars for seeking to recruit others to burn down a New York mosque, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

At least five police officers have been killed after the Taliban stormed a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan, the interior ministry has said.

Right-wing marchers have taken to the streets in several cities across the United States for the National March Against Sharia, an anti-Muslim campaign that has been roundly criticised by rights groups and watchdogs.

Short nights closer to the North Pole means that some Muslims in Iceland’s capital Reykjavik are fasting for nearly 22 hours during Ramadan, according to a local imam.

Following the biggest attack of Daesh in Iran, dozens of public figures denounced the attack. Shaikh Abdol-Hamid, the most influential Iranian Sunni cleric and social leader also decried the attack on the parliament and shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Issuing a statement, Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid decried the recent bloody attacks in the capital of Afghanistan and expressed his sympathy with the victims.

At least 90 people were killed and hundreds wounded Wednesday when a massive truck bomb ripped through Kabul’s diplomatic quarter, bringing carnage to the streets of the Afghan capital just days into the holy fasting month of Ramazan.