Taliban insurgents fired a barrage of rockets at Afghanistan’s newly built parliament complex in Kabul on Monday, as top security officials including the intelligence chief prepared to address the assembly.

The eminent Iranian Sunni leader, Shaikh Mohammad-Ali Amini expressed his pleasure on the participation in the gathering of Sunnis of Zahedan.

At least 65 people have been killed and over 300 others injured in a suicide blast outside a public park in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, health ministry officials said.

Tributes were paid Saturday to a British Muslim shopkeeper killed in what police described as a “religiously prejudiced” attack, as a Muslim suspect remained in custody.

A suicide bomber has detonated his explosives belt at a football stadium south of the Iraqi capital, killing at least 29 people and injuring 60 others, the security head in Babel province has said.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was Thursday found guilty of genocide by UN war crimes judges and sentenced to 40 years in jail over the worst atrocities on European soil since World War II.

The United Nations condemned on Friday the “gruesome” killing of a wounded Palestinian by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank, after a video of the death spread widely online.

The Syrian regime withheld the green light from an UN aid convoy seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to Douma and Darayya, UN humanitarian advisor Jan Egeland said on Wednesday.

Israel on Tuesday imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinians into occupied East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex — for the first time since last October — to coincide with the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, a Palestinian official has said.

US military planes killed dozens of fighters at an Al-Qaeda affiliate’s training camp in a mountainous region of Yemen, the Pentagon said.