The US will send an additional 560 troops to Iraq to help secure a newly retaken airbase as a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said during an unannounced visit to the country.

With at least 30 civilians killed and dozens seriously wounded in firing by India’s armed forces, this disputed Himalayan region is again seething with rage.

The founder of Pakistan’s largest welfare organisation, Abdul Sattar Edhi, died Friday at the age of 92, his son confirmed, as tributes swiftly poured in for the humble man almost unanimously revered as a national hero.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid denounced strongly the suicide attacks on some cities of Saudi Arabia, including the holy city of Medina.

Shaikh Abdol-Hamid alluded to the challenges of the Muslim world in his speech of Eid al-Fitr in Zahedan city of Iran on July 6, 2016 and called ‘focusing on the rights of minorities’ the best policy.

The prominent Iranian Sunni scholar urged Iranian Sunnis should not face obstacles and restrictions on own Eid prayers.

Four security officers have been killed and five others wounded in a suicide attack outside one of Islam’s holiest sites, Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry said.

Around 250,000 Muslims turned out to pray at East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque for the third Friday of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month.

Creating obstacles for Sunni worshipers and sealing some prayer-houses in Tehran and other parts of Iran have forced the notable Sunni scholars of Iran to express their deep concerns.

Thousands of Muslims from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem converged on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound today to pray on the second Friday of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month.