The United Nations on Wednesday said 5,700 people have been killed in the conflict in Yemen since March 26, including 830 women and children, while efforts to coax all sides into another attempt at peace talks continue.

Several mosques have been vandalised and a number of suspected hate crimes targeting Muslims carried out after dozens of United States governors announced they would not accept Syrian refugees in their states.

Two suicide bombers targeted a mobile phone market in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 100 others, emergency officials said.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said Sunday he would begin the “dissolution of mosques where hate is preached,” as quoted by Le Figaro newspaper reports Sputnik.

Members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority, which was attacked by ISIL, looted and burned Muslim homes in Sinjar after its recapture, witnesses said Sunday.

World diplomats gathered in Vienna had agreed on a fixed calendar for Syria that would see a transition government in six months and elections in 18 months. The 17 countries, European Union, United States and Arab League meeting in Vienna agreed agreed on Saturday to accelerate efforts to end the conflict in Syria by launching […]

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France has decided to close its borders, declare a nation-wide state of emergency, and deploy its army in and around Paris after at least 153 people were killed and dozens injured in multiple shootings, a 100-person hostage crisis, and explosions rocked the French capital late on Friday.

Three Palestinians have died from bullet wounds inflicted by Israeli troops, and two Israeli settlers have been shot dead in an attack, as unrest continues to grip Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

A Jordanian policeman shot dead on Monday two U.S. instructors, a South African and two from his home country before being gunned down at a police training facility east of the capital, a government spokesman said.