A group of young activists gathered in Veinna Monday to protest against a new regulation banning public servants, including teachers, from wearing headscarves.

A prominent Islamic scholar of Turkmen-Sahra region of Iran passed away on Saturday 14th Jan. 2017.

President Wafaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan, Molana Saleemullah Khan passed away after a brief illness on Sunday aged 91 in Karachi.

At least nine victims were killed and 20 others injured Sunday in a suicide car bomb attack, police told Anadolu Agency.

Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti on Friday branded plans by President-elect Donald Trump to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem an “assault” on Muslims across the globe.

Muslim community in eastern French town of Dijon were targeted by an Islamophobic attack, local media reported on Friday.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday approved a decision to fine Muslim parents who refused to send their daughters to attend mixed swimming lessons on the basis of their religion.

Iran’s ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a dominant figure in the country’s politics since the 1980s, has died at the age of 82, media say.

Calling on the authorities to ‘review some of their domestic and foreign stances’, the outstanding Iranian Sunni leader termed ‘religious freedom’ and ‘equality’ among the indisputable due rights of the Iranian Sunnis.

An Israeli soldier who shot dead a wounded Palestinian assailant as he lay on the ground posing no apparent threat was convicted of manslaughter Wednesday after a trial that deeply divided the country.