As many as 1.5 million external and domestic pilgrims are expected to perform hajj this year, the Saudi Central Hajj Committee was told.

The prominent Baloch Islamic scholar in Saravan, south eastern district of Iran, Mawlana Muhammad Anwar Sayyedzadeh and his three companions passed away in a road accident on Saturday night, 6th August, 2016.

A Pakistani Taliban faction and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have both claimed responsibility for the suicide attack at a hospital in Pakistan’s Quetta city that left at least 70 people dead.

Syria’s brutal conflict has now claimed the lives of more than 290,000 people, a monitoring group said on Monday, giving its latest death toll for the devastating five-year war.

The family of a Muslim boy who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Texas school officials and others, saying the incident violated the 14-year-old boy’s civil rights, prompted death threats and forced them to leave the United States.

At least 53 people were killed in a suicide bombing inside the Civil Hospital on Monday, police said. Many others were injured in the attack.

¬At least 10 people, including three children and four women, have been killed in air strikes on a hospital in northwestern Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province.

Muslim Americans have served in the U.S. Armed Forces since the days of George Washington. They have fought and died alongside Americans of all religions, races and creeds, yet Islamophobes like Donald Trump continue to question their patriotism.

A major Syrian opposition body has announced that rebels have broken a government siege of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

More than 300 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday halted a hunger strike after Israel prison authorities agreed to end “humiliating” body searches and return recently transferred prisoners, a rights group said.