Chinese officials have restricted civil servants, students and children in a mainly Muslim region from fasting during Ramadan, government websites said as the holy month began on Monday.

Expressing his satisfaction with giving membership to a Sunni MP in the Presiding Board of the tenth Majlis of the Iranian parliament, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid termed such positive acts useful for enhancing Islamic unity and brotherhood.

Urging on avoidance from disputes, the prominent Islamic scholar termed provoking sectarian issues ‘Haram and illegal’ in an international conference held in Yazd, Iran on Tuesday 24th May, 2016.

The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday announced influential religious figure Haibatullah Akhundzada as their new leader after confirming supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour’s death in a U.S. drone strike.

The Israeli air force carried out strikes on Hamas sites in Gaza early Thursday in response to a rocket attack targeting the Jewish state, the army and Palestinian sources said.

One of the Sunni prayer-houses in Mashhad city was sealed by the personnel of the municipality on Monday 23rd May, 2016.

In a letter to King Salman, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid has asked him to facilitate the way for the Iranian pilgrims for Hajj in this year.

Abdol-Ghafour Joharchi, a visually-impaired memorizer of the Noble Qur’an won the final round of the 33rd international Qur’an competitions in Tehran on May 16, 2016.

World leaders have renewed their calls for a cessation of hostilities in Syria after meeting in Vienna, hoping to restart peace talks aimed at halting Syria’s civil war.

Three bombings in Baghdad have killed at least 70 people and wounded more than 100, police and medical sources say, as a wave of violence continues unabated in the Iraqi capital.