Iraqi President Barham Salih has appointed Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi as the country’s new prime minister, ending more than two months of political deadlock.

A US military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, a Taliban spokesman and Afghan journalist affiliated with the armed group said.

Search and rescue efforts are under way after a deadly earthquake struck eastern Turkey, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 1,100 others.

Two women, one pregnant, were killed and seven other people injured after Myanmar troops shelled a Rohingya village on Saturday, according to a lawmaker and a villager, two days after the U.N.’s highest court ordered the country to protect the minority.

The first Conference of Mawlana Abul-Hasan Nadawi on his thoughts and services for Islamic literature was held at Darululoom Zahedan inside the Grand Makki Mosque on Sunday evening January 12, 2020.

Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid called the authorities to take decisive action in hit-flood areas at the Provincial Administrative meeting in Chabahar on Tuesday January 14, 2020 and said: “Flood damages should be recovered and effective measures should be taken in affected zones in order to prevent more damages in the future.”

Mawlana Abdol-Hamid has traveled to the flood-hit and stricken areas of Baluchistan in south Iran where he took part and talked in the provincial administrative meeting of Sistan-Baluchistan in Chabahar on Tuesday 14th January 2020.

Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid extended his condolences to the victims’ families who lost their lives at a plane shot down mistakenly near Tehran on Wednesday morning 8 January, 2020.

Iran said its military “unintentionally” shot down the Ukrainian commercial jet near Tehran that crashed and killed everyone aboard, in a statement cited by Iranian state television on Saturday.

Oman announced Saturday culture minister Haitham bin Tariq Al Said as the new ruler of the Gulf Arab country, ending speculation over the mystery of who would succeed longtime ruler Sultan Qaboos.