Bangladesh has executed Motiur Rahman Nizami, head of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami party, for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence to break away from Pakistan, the country’s law minister said.

Air strikes on a camp for displaced people in Syria’s Idlib province were almost certainly not accidental and likely amounted to a war crime, the UN rights chief said Friday.

Israeli aircraft struck a Hamas facility in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday after alleged cross-border mortar fire, the Israeli army said.

The British Labour party’s Sadiq Khan has been elected as London mayor by comfortably outrunning of his nearest rival.

A Danish adult education centre has banned the wearing of the niqab covering for Muslim females.

Tens of thousands worshippers in Zahedan, southeastern Iran, have gathered to take part in the 25th graduation ceremony of Darululoom Zahedan, Iran.

The Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday that talks are taking place to include Syria’s Aleppo province in the temporary “regime of calm” lull in fighting, Russian agencies reported.

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) adopted a controversial party program Sunday that called for banning Islamic symbols and restricting religious practices of Muslims.

Syria called local truces near Damascus and in a northern province on Friday but no halt to combat on the main battlefield in Aleppo, after a surge in fighting the United Nations said showed “monstrous disregard” for civilian lives.

A London-based Muslim preacher has demanded a formal apology from the British premier for labeling him a ISIL supporter in the parliament in the run-up to the mayoral elections.