Israeli settlers have again attacked a Palestinian household in the village of Beit Fureeq near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, blowing up a vehicle and part of a house, Press TV reports.

Turkey is clinging to hopes of finding survivors under rubble three days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 459 people in the southeast as the government finally requested foreign help to shelter thousands of homeless families.

The Gaza Strip and West Bank gave a jubilant welcome Tuesday, October 18, to hundreds of Palestinian prisoners freed from Israeli jails in exchange for the release of a captured Israeli soldier.

The Muslim minority in Canada is still facing negative perceptions a decade after the 9/11, a national survey has found, reflecting a widespread unease towards Muslims in the West.

Yemeni security forces have opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in the capital Sanaa, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens more, medics said.

A new Israeli plan to build a new settlement in Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) is inviting huge condemnations with the United Nations warning Israel that its actions deal deadly blows to peacemaking.

Thousands of jubilant Gazans took to the streets of the impoverished enclave on Wednesday, October 12, in celebration of a prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel.

Head of the Hamas political bureau, Khaled Mishaal, revealed that the prisoner exchange deal reached between Hamas and the Israeli occupation through German and Egyptian mediation, stipulates the release of 1027 Palestinian captives in exchange for Israeli captive Gilad Shalit.

A group of Jewish fanatics vandalized Islamic and Christian cemeteries in Yaffa on Friday night, Palestinian eyewitnesses said on Saturday.

Putting Australia on the path to join the booming Islamic finance, a Muslim wealth manager is planning to establish the country’s first Shari`ah-compliant equity fund.