Egyptian presidential favourite and former army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has vowed that the banned Muslim Brotherhood group “will not exist,” should he win.

Muslims have held simultaneous peace rallies across Mindanao in the southern Philippines to voice their support and appeal for the immediate passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

At least two people have been killed as gunmen attacked three container trucks carrying NATO supplies en route to Afghanistan in Pakistan´s troubled northwest on Monday.

Syrian authorities and rebel fighters agreed a 24-hour ceasefire in the Old City district of Homs on Friday to allow besieged rebels to pull out of their last stronghold in the central Syrian city, a monitoring group and television stations said.

At least 500 people are feared dead and up to 2000 others missing after a landslide buried a village in northern Afghanistan.

The flow of foreign fighters into Syria has grown in the last few months, with dozens of Americans joining the country’s civil war alongside thousands of Europeans, the director of the FBI has said.

An Egyptian judge has sentenced 683 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death, including the group’s supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, and confirmed the death sentences of 37 of 529 alleged supporters previously condemned.

Israeli occupation forces continue their policy of arresting young Palestinian children, with a recent incident taking place on April 23 in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil (Hebron).

The Afghanistan election is set to go to a second round run-off between former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani after none of the candidates won an absolute majority, preliminary results showed on Saturday.

Five NATO troops died in a helicopter crash Saturday in southern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led military coalition said, the single deadliest day this year for foreign forces as they prepare to withdraw from the country.