Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has opened an exhibition showcasing hundreds of ancient Iranian artifacts returned to the country from Belgium after decades of legal battles.

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom has slammed Israel over its reaction to Stockholm’s recognition of the Palestinian state, stressing that Tel Aviv is crossing all boundaries.

A Moroccan man has been stabbed to death inside his home in southern France in what seems to be another case of Islamophobia in the country, a rights group says.

The United States has once again showed its support for Israel’s war crimes denouncing a plan to probe into Tel Aviv’s atrocities against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Afghan president has added his voice to the condemnation of French magazine Charlie Hebdo for printing yet another insulting cartoon of Islam’s holy Prophet Mohammad.

Pope Francis has lashed out at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for the release of a new insulting illustration.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview on Thursday to the Czech paper Literarni Noviny. Following is the full text of the interview as posted by the state-run SANA news agency:

New data show the Israeli regime gave the green light for the construction of nearly 17,000 new illegal settlement units across the occupied Palestinian lands last year.

Turkish satirical magazine Cafcaf, the only publication in Turkey which places emphasis on Islamic values, has hit back to the Charlie Hebdo arrogance with a unique cover.

Jordanians have played a central role in al-Nusra Front since its inception. After the “jihadist divorce” between al-Nusra and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Jordanian emigrants have enjoyed the lion’s share of power in the group’s chain of command.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court said on Friday they had opened a preliminary inquiry into possible war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, the first formal step that could lead to charges against Israelis or Palestinians.

2014 was the deadliest ever for journalists working in the Palestinian territories, a Gaza-based watchdog said on Thursday, months after a bloody war in the besieged enclave claimed the lives of more than 2,310 Gazans.

One of the early founders of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo has accused its slain chief editor of dragging the team to their deaths after turning the weekly into a Zionist, Islamophobic mouthpiece.

French director Isabelle Matic has announced her decision to revert to Islam on her FaceBook account, making the unexpected announcement only a few days after Charlie Hebdo Paris attacks.

Hundreds of people in the besieged Gaza Strip have joined a protest against the protracted closure of the Rafah border crossing -- the enclave's only land terminal that bypasses Israel -- by Egyptian authorities.

Two rights groups have called on Bahrain’s Western allies to exert pressure on Manama to drop charges against prominent human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab.

A bomber who recently attacked a police station in the Turkish city of Istanbul has reportedly been the widow of a Norwegian member of the ISIL terrorist group.

The Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, and the Future Movement have expressed their support for measures that would improve security and stability in the country.