Muslim scholars in Kyrgyzstan have issued a fatwa banning New Year celebrations in the country, drawing mixed reactions from residents.

A Muslim scholar was shot dead Thursday, December 27, in the internal Russian republic of North Ossetia, to the shock of the Muslim community.

A Taliban spokesman claimed one of their fighters has attacked the US airbase in Khost, Afghanistan. The statement adds: “On Wednesday, December 26, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. local time, a brave martyrdom-seeking Mujahid of the Islamic Emirate conducted a martyr attack on the US major military airbase in the capital of Khost province by slamming […]

An Afghan policewoman has shot and killed a US security adviser in the Kabul police headquarters, NATO and local officials say.

Al-Qaeda-linked fighters occupying Timbuktu in northern Mali have destroyed remaining mausoleums in the ancient city using pickaxes, a leader of the group says.

One US-led soldier serving with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has been killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber has killed at least eight people at a political rally in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.

A massive fire has swept through a market in the Afghan capital, Kabul, destroying hundreds of shops and forcing the city’s nearby money exchange to evacuate.Authorities confirmed the blaze had engulfed most of the downtown cloth market’s 500 shops, but caused no casualties.

The outstanding Sunni leader, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed, alluded to the wave of Islamism across the globe in his latest Friday sermon, 14th December, stating, “Praise is due to Allah, a huge number of people wants Islam now-a-days; out of expectation, we listen the voice of “Allah-u-Akbar” from other places. May Allah liberate Palestine and al-Quds completely.”

Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Ismaeelzahi urged Iran suffers from serious crises, it has been proved partiality, ethnic, and giving chance to a particular sect are useless policies to administrate the country.