At least 20 people have been killed and several wounded in suicide bombings near a government compound in the Pakistani city of Quetta bordering Afghanistan.

Muammar Gaddafi has probably left the Libyan desert town of Bani Walid and is heading further south with the help of loyalist tribes towards Chad or Niger, Reuters news agency quoted a senior military official in Libya’s new leadership as saying.

TEHRAN- the Security Police of Tehran metropolis stopped Sunni Muslims to offer Eid prayers on Eid al-Fitr day, August 31, 2011.

Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunna in Zahedan, Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid indicated towards the Government Week in Iran saying, ‘Some people gripe that why we do not recount the government and its services; however, we praised and appreciated the government on different occasions when they took any positive steps and built new projects in the province. The government […]

ZAHEDAN: Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunna, Shaikh Abdul Hameed has asked the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khamenehi to dispel barriers from establishing Eid and Friday prayers of Sunnis in mega cities of Iran.

TEHRAN: Following the issuance of an illegal order to halt Sunnis in Tehran from establishment of Eid prayers, Sunni members of the Iranian Parliament asked president Ahmadinejad to follow up the case.

MASHHAD: The Iranian authorities have released a famous Sunni scholar of Khorasan province, Shaikh Muhammad Mowahhid Fadheli, Khateeb of Sunnis in Taibad city on bail. He was freed on Sunday, August 21, 2011.

Rebels overran Muammar Qaddafi’s compound in Tripoli Tuesday, raising their flag and ripping the head off his statue as they celebrated a symbolic, if not yet real, end to the strongman’s iron-fisted 42-year rule.

Sustained automatic gunfire and a series of explosions rang out in Tripoli overnight as rebels launched efforts to permanantly free the Libyan capital from Muammar Gaddafi’s grasp, according to reports from witnesses and rebels.

Libyan rebels have reportedly taken control of the centre of the oil-rich eastern town of Brega, just 50km east of Tripoli.