The most influential Islamic scholar of the Iranian Sunni community has asked supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to stop the hanging process of the Sunni prisoners.

Because they have the youngest median age (30) of all religious groups, Muslims are the fastest-growing such group in the world, and by 2050, India will be the country with the world’s largest Muslim population, said American think tank Pew Research Centre, this week.

Police in Oshawa are looking for a masked man who threatened the life of an 11-year-old Muslim boy at a school, Canadian media reported Friday.

Thousands of civilians fled Mosul overnight as Iraqi forces advanced north of a sprawling military base near the city’s airport on Friday.

A Canadian university was evacuated Wednesday after separate media outlets received the same letter that threatened to detonate bombs targeting Muslim students.

Turkey’s Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said Monday that it had delivered food to 18,500 displaced Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar this month.

A picture taken in 1954 revealed the rectangular form of the Grand Mosque, the ‘Tawaf’ – which is the area where Muslims circumnavigate the Kaaba as a ritual – as well as the fence placed around the Mosque and the Bani Shaibah door.

Suicide attacks on two security service bases in the heart of Syria’s government-held third city of Homs killed 42 people on Saturday, overshadowing peace talks in Geneva, state television and a monitor said.

With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday bakcing the pardoning of a soldier sentenced to 18 months in prison for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian assailant, the sentenced was deplored with the UN also saying it was “disturbed” by the light sentence.

Standing by the side of a highway near the main gates to Ariel West, an Israeli industrial zone in the heart of the West Bank district of Salfit, Jamal Omar Fazaa makes a sweeping gesture with his hand.