At least eight people were killed in a large explosion in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, officials said, with reports saying the target was a NATO convoy.

Pakistan on Tuesday welcomed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s offer to aid dialogue between Pakistan and India to resolve the lingering Kashmir dispute.

German lawmakers on Thursday approved a partial ban on the full-face burqa Islamic veil and a package of security measures aimed at preventing extremist attacks.

The most influential Iranian Sunni leader has stated the demands of the Sunni community of Iran from the new government by the start of presidential election campaign in Iran. Mawlana Abdol-Hamid asked for the share of the Sunni community in the new cabinet, terming the right of Sunnis.

SunniOnline| Tens of thousands Iranian Sunnis have gathered at the biggest congregation of the Iranian Sunni community to take part in the graduation ceremony of Darululoom Zahedan.

The prominent Iranian Sunni leader urged on the ‘necessity of revising some parts of the constitution’ in order to legitimize candidacy of Sunni citizens to run for presidential election.

The Iranian Sunni members of the parliament (Majlis) have asked the authorities to try the directors of ‘Velayat’ TV following insulting Shaikh Abdol-Hamid, the most influential Iranian Sunni scholar.

“More than 50 Afghan soldiers have been killed” in a Taliban attack Friday on their base near the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a US military spokesman told AFP.

Malaysian minister Datuk Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki lamented that Muslims here care more about the halal status of their food, compared to the status of their source of income, Malay Mail Online reported on Friday.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have banned dozens of baby names with religious meanings that are widely used by Muslims elsewhere in the world, RFA has learned.