NEWS

Syria has called on the United Nations Security Council to adopt punitive measures against countries that support terrorism, in the wake of a string of bomb explosions that killed over four dozen civilians in the Arab country.

Hundreds in Myanmar rallied on Tuesday against an advisory commission led by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan to find solutions to the conflict between the country’s Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, which has cast a pall over democratic reforms.

Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years’ imprisonment after being convicted of drumming up support for ISIS.

Iraq has put out fires at six more oil wells in the Qayyara region, which Iraqi forces recaptured from ISIS militants late last month, but at least three fires are still blazing, the oil ministry said on Tuesday.

With the efforts of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi’s office and the commandments of his eminence, the Hajj pilgrimage mission of the holy city of Karbala will begin its activities on Arafa Day.

 Saudi authorities has once again confirmed it was far from applying the principles of the Islamic religion and not eligible to run its own religious places of Muslims for its sectarian attitude as they have paid attention to certain places…

A female interpreter at the Swedish Migration Board has been suspended from duty and is awaiting an investigation for her ‘inappropriate’ comment that many Arabs “lie about their background” to secure asylum in Sweden.

Britain is now the second biggest arms dealer in the world, official government figures show – with most of the weapons fuelling deadly conflicts in the Middle East.

Nigeria’s Department of State Services said it arrested two Boko Haram members attempting to infiltrate the Nigerian army.

At least nine people have been killed in a car bombing claimed by ISIS in Baghdad as takfiris continue their bloody insurgency.