Activists in Syria say the country’s third largest city, Homs, has been attacked by the army.Videos released on the internet suggest security forces fired on densely populated parts of Homs, a focal point for pro-democracy protesters, with tank shells and machine guns.

A trend adopted by Egypt’s ruling military council to use military courts to try civilians has sparked uproar among protesters who forced president Hosni Mubarak’s ouster.

At least twenty Muslims from China’s minority Uighur community were killed on Tuesday, July 19, in renewed clash with police forces in the ethnically tense northwestern region of Xinjiang, a Uighur exile group said.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the most popular figure across the Arab world due to his staunch support for Gazans, has said he is planning to visit Gaza after his trip to Egypt later this month.

Syrian troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed three people in attacks on districts across the city of Homs on Tuesday, residents said, as a crackdown to crush pro-democracy protests intensified.

Following France’s steps, Belgium will become the second European country to ban Muslim face veil, or niqab, in public places as of coming July 23 when the law banning the religious outfit becomes effective.

As many as 28 protesters have been killed across Syria after security forces reportedly shot at protesters, hundreds of thousands of whom took to the streets in the biggest protests so far against Bashar al-Assad’s rule, an activist group said.

Thousands of Egyptians marched on the cabinet headquarters in central Cairo on Tuesday to demand the removal of the ruling military council.

Security forces opened fire as thousands of anti-government protesters took to Syria’s streets in a weekly ritual of defiance and demands for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ousting.

In a new drive to boost their country’s renewable power generation, German Muslims are planning a mosque equipped with wind turbines in its minarets to generate electricity, the first-ever building in the world.