SANANDAJ- A Kurdish Sunni student, Asma Cheshmeh-Kaboudi, of PhD has been banned to continue her studies in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, of Iran.

ZAHEDAN- Hundreds of Sunni students of universities took part in their annual national convention inside Grand Makki Masjid of Zahedan, southeast Iran, on Thursday March 7, 2013.

At least nine people have been killed in a suicide bombing outside the Afghan defence ministry in Kabul as US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel visits the country, officials have said.

Radical cleric Abu Qatada has been arrested for allegedly breaching his bail conditions, days ahead of a new government bid to have him deported.

At least 45 people have been killed by a bomb explosion in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police say.

The outstanding Islamic scholar, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Isma’eelzahi, alluded to some whispers of dividing “Sistan-Baluchistan Province” and warned the authorities over removal of the word ‘Baluchistan’ on Friday, 01-March-2013 in Zahedan.

Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al-Qaeda commander behind a bloody mass hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant earlier this year, Chad’s military has said.

The government of Bangladesh has deployed troops in the north of the country as six more people were killed in fresh clashes over the conviction of an Islamist party leader for war crimes in the Muslim-majority nation.

Rejecting growing hijabophobia in Lagos schools, a leading Islamic organization has planned a protest at governor’s office, urging him to end victimization against Muslim pupils as an infringement on the constitutional rights of pupils.

Fresh clashes have resulted in more deaths in Bangladesh during violence in response to the death sentence handed to an opposition leader.