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.

Maariya from Luton, England has completed memorising the entire Qur’an.

At least six people were killed Saturday when a Taliban bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into Afghan soldiers who had queued outside a bank in southern Helmand province to collect their salaries, officials said.

At least seven people were killed in fierce clashes that erupted in central Baghdad on Saturday between security forces and protesters demanding reforms to Iraq’s electoral system, police said.