This year 54.6% male and 45.4% female foreign pilgrims performed Haj, according to a final data released by the General Authority for Statistics (GaStat).

Medical student Naveed Khan has been named in the Evening Standard’s ‘Progress 1000’, a list of London’s most influential people of 2016.

A young French Muslim woman who lost three family members in the July 14 terror attack on Nice made an impassioned plea Monday not to confuse the Islamic faith with terrorism.

Syrian or Russian warplanes bombed aid trucks near Aleppo after a fragile week-long ceasefire ended as it appeared the bloody five-year war was fully back on late on Monday.

US air strikes have killed eight Afghan policemen in the embattled southern province of Afghanistan, officials confirmed, as security forces, supported by US strikes, battle Taliban fighters.

A Palestinian was shot and injured in Jerusalem on Monday morning after allegedly attacking two Israeli police officers with a knife, according to Israeli police sources.

A seven-day ceasefire declared by the Syrian army expired at midnight, with no immediate announcement of its extension on Monday. The “regime of calm” was announced on Sept. 12 following a ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia.

Criticizing the growing incidents of shootings on innocent people in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan of Iran, the prominent Iranian Sunni leader asked the security forces to avoid firing in public places.

Air strikes that hit a market and areas of the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib Saturday killed dozens of people, a monitor said, a day after Russia and the US agreed a truce for Syria.

Close to 1.5 million Muslims from around the world prepared on Saturday night for the climax of the annual hajj pilgrimage at a rocky hill known as Mount Arafat.