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.

Twenty-five Palestinian children were killed in the last three months of 2015 during a wave of anti-Israeli attacks and the number detained was the highest in seven years, the UN children’s agency said.

Expressing his discontent over some ‘illegal acts’ in the armed forces, the outstanding Iranian Sunni leader asked the authorities in the Military Court of Iran to implement justice.

Police on Thursday arrested 15 Israeli rightwing activists who were planning to go to the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound without authorization, a statement said.