A Lion Air flight with 188 people on board crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital on Monday.

Three Palestinian children were martyred on Sunday by an Israeli airstrike near the eastern border of Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry.

Israeli aircraft have struck dozens of “militant sites” across the Gaza Strip as Palestinians fired some 30 rockets into Israel in the heaviest exchange of fire between the bitter enemies in several weeks.

U.S.-led coalition warplanes struck a mosque in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province, killing at least seven people, according to local sources.

Pakistan has released the Afghan Taliban leader from prison, a spokesman for the Taliban announced on Thursday.

At least six people have been killed and 30 others wounded in a car bomb blast south of Mosul, police and medical sources said.

A Palestinian was martyred after Israeli soldiers opened fire in the West Bank city of Tubas, local health officials said Wednesday.

Shaikh Abdol-Hamid has criticized pertinent departments over creating troubles and limitations for mosques and religious schools of the Sunni community in Iran. He termed such acts “against the constitution and unity”.

Talking to the audience of the valediction-introduction ceremony of the University of Islamic Denominations’ principals in Zahedan branch, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid said all developments of human beings had been the results of science and knowledge.

Polls have closed in Afghanistan’s long-awaited parliamentary elections, with large numbers of voters defying deadly attacks to cast their ballots.