Nearly 70 children were among those killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, a monitor said on Sunday.

Following abusive remarks and baseless allegations of a Shia cleric in a private satellite TV channel about the most influential Iranian Sunni leader, dozens of scholars, intellectuals and rectors of seminaries decried the managers of the TV.

Mashhad – SunniOnline: Molawi Fazl-ur-Rahman Kuhi, a prominent Iranian Baloch scholar and Friday imam has been imprisoned following telephonic summoning to a court in Mashhad. He was released after 9 days.

The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss a chemical weapons attack in Syria that has killed scores of people, amid a continuing global chorus of condemnation over the incident.

A Muslim man has died after he was attacked by hundreds of Hindu vigilantes while transporting cows in India, police said Wednesday, amid rising tensions over the slaughter of the sacred animal.

A suspected chemical attack in Syria has drawn international condemnation, with the United States, France and Britain all pointing the finger at President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

A total of 19 Palestinian refugees were killed in war-torn Syria in March, a London-based NGO has said.

Islamophobic attacks in Austria increased 62 percent in 2016 compared to the previous year, a report has suggested.

Nearly 1,800 opposition fighters and civilians have been sent to Syria’s northwestern Idlib city from the Al-Waer district of the western Homs province amid repeated cease-fire violations by the Assad regime and its allies.

The Chechen parliament has approved a law allowing children to wear religious symbols, including the hijab in schools.