Turkey’s army is lifting a historic ban on female officers wearing the Islamic headscarf in the officially secular country, the state-run Anadolu news agency said Wednesday.

Human rights groups and Palestinian leaders have condemned what they called the “extremely lenient” punishment of Elor Azaria, the Israeli army medic who was filmed executing a severely wounded Palestinian in Hebron last year.

An Islamic center in the Swedish city of Gothenburg came under arson attack early on Tuesday, according to local police sources.

Around 350,000 children are trapped in western Mosul, Save the Children warned on Sunday as Iraqi forces launched a fresh offensive on extremists defending the strategic city.

The famous book of Mufti Qasemi, ‘Upbringing & Edification of Children’, has been chosen as the favorite book of the year in Sistan-Baluchistan province of Iran.

Egyptian Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the founder and the spiritual leader of the Cairo-based Gamaa Islamiya (Islamic Group) movement, died at the age of 79 in U.S., his son announced Saturday.

At least 15 people were killed, including eight police personnel, and over 90 injured in two separate blasts in northwest and southwest Pakistan on Monday, officials and local media reported.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned a fresh Israeli attempt to ban the Muslim call to prayer (Adhan) being broadcast through loudspeakers.

Civilians, mostly women and children, were killed last week in air raids by NATO forces in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, an initial United Nations inquiry suggested.

Swiss voters on Sunday approved a measure to make it easier for third-generation immigrants to become citizens, crushing rightwing nationalists who had stoked fears about granting nationality to more Muslims.