The US-led coalition has air-dropped US and allied Syrian forces near Tabqa in Raqqa province, expanding a campaign by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militias against ISIS, the SDF said on Wednesday.

A historic Ottoman-era mosque in northern Greece which was undergoing renovations was severely damaged in an early-morning fire on Wednesday, according to local media.

Syrian rebels stormed a government-held area in northeastern Damascus on Tuesday for the second time in three days, sources on both sides said, pressing the boldest assault on the capital by opposition fighters in several years.

Britain will follow the United States in banning carry-on electronic goods from passanger cabins on inbound flghts from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Turkey.

Heavy clashes rocked eastern districts of the Syrian capital on Sunday after rebel fighters launched a surprise assault on government forces, a monitor and state television said.

The substitute Khateeb & Friday imam of Sunnis in Zahedan welcomed the trip of Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid and Mufti Mohammad Qasem Qasemi to the earth of the revelation during a public gathering for the Friday prayers in Zahedan city on 17th March, 2017.

A rocket fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip slammed into southern Israel on Saturday, prompting retaliatory Israeli tank fire, sources on both sides said.

Janna Jihad, a 10-year old Palestinian girl, is counted as the youngest journalist in the world.

The US on Friday denied hitting a Syrian mosque and killing at least 49 civilians in an air strike targeting al-Qaeda, saying it had killed dozens of militants and had no reports of civilian casualties.

The Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umra and the Pilgrimage Organization of Iran completed all the necessary arrangements for the participation of Iranian pilgrims in the Hajj season of 2017 (1438AH), according to the approved procedures with various Islamic countries.