The Taliban killed more than 100 members of the Afghan security forces inside a military compound in central Maidan Wardak province on Monday, a senior defense official said.

After a decades-long armed struggle in the Southern part of the Philippines – Mindanao – a law accepted by Muslim resistance groups such as Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and some factions of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) is now being put to a vote for ratification.

The United States and the Taliban on Monday resumed their talks in Doha aimed at ending the stalemate over participation of Afghan government in negotiations for a political settlement of the conflict.

The most influential Iranian Sunni leader criticized the new order for employing 5000 citizens which had refused priority rights for locals.

Far-right Islamophobic group Pegida staged an anti-Islam demonstration in front of a mosque in the Netherlands late Wednesday.

A restaurant in northern Syria’s Manbij town center was rocked by an explosion Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and injuring many others, a Syrian war monitoring group said.

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at Israel late Saturday, Israel’s army said, prompting retaliatory strikes on the territory’s rulers Hamas as tensions rose after another day of violent border clashes.

Iranian First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri has announced that Homeira Rigi had been selected as the ambassador of Iran to Brunei. Jahangiri was in a trip to Sistan-Baluchistan province last week.   

Newly elected U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was sworn into the House of Representatives on Thursday wearing a traditional Palestinian thobe, or dress, sparking a movement on social media.

A Turkish charity agency handed out some 51,000 copies of Quran, Muslim holy book, in 10 countries and regions in 2018, the aid group said on Thursday.