Residents in rebel-controlled east Aleppo – now down to a handful of neighbourhoods – say they fear retribution if they flee to government-held areas.

Two explosions have hit the Turkish city of Istanbul, killing at least 29 people, mostly police personnel, and wounding more than 160 others, according to authorities.

A Muslim teen who was the victim of a bias attack earlier this month on the city’s subway has been missing for two days, according to police.

Syrian government artillery bombarded the fast-shrinking rebel enclave in the heart of Aleppo on Friday despite its ally Russia’s announcement of a new humanitarian pause, a monitor said.

A court in the Netherlands has found Geert Wilders, an anti-Islam politician, guilty of hate speech for leading a chant against Moroccans at a 2014 campaign rally.

The Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called on Muslims worldwide to stage a “Friday of rage” Dec. 9 to show solidarity with Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority.

The main Fiqh academy of the Iranian Sunni community, Islamic Fiqh Academy of Iranian Sunnis, held its 22nd meeting in Darululoom Zahedan on 3-4 Dec. 2016.

All 48 people on board a Pakistani passenger plane, which crashed in the country’s mountainous north, have died, the airline’s chairman has confirmed.

At least 52 people – including many women and children – have been killed when air strikes by Iraqi forces mistakenly targeted civilians gathering in the ISIL-held western city of al-Qaim, military officials told Al Jazeera.

At least 29 civilians were killed and scores of others were injured on Tuesday in airstrikes launched by the Assad regime’s aircrafts over Idlib and Aleppo, according to a civil defense official.