Israel has stolen 80,000 Palestinian books and manuscripts and kept them in its national libraries since 1948, Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Al-Arabi said.
The Egyptian government will make changes to its military penal code so that acts of "terrorism" will fall under the military court's jurisdiction. The decision was made one day after an attack on a military post in Sinai, which left 30 dead and 31 others injured.
On October 20, 2011, the leader of the North African state of Libya was brutally assassinated in the city of Sirte. Col. Muammar Gaddafi had been leading a struggle to defend his country from a war of regime-change coordinated and financed by the United States and NATO.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says a final nuclear deal between Tehran and the P5+1 group is possible by the upcoming deadline for the talks between the two sides, if the six world powers show the necessary political resolve in this regard.
The inaugural National Mosque Open Day will see Australian Muslims welcome non-Muslims inside their places of worship in an effort to promote peace, awareness and understanding.
Amnesty International has urged authorities in Bahrain to free prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, detained over remarks he posted on Twitter that were regarded as insulting to the regime’s ministries of interior and defense.
The Pentagon has revealed that the US-led airstrikes targeting ISIL terrorists in Iraq and Syria cost the United States more than $8.3 million per day.
Iraqi armed forces have launched fresh anti-ISIL operations to liberate another strategic area after they managed to recapture the town of Jurf al-Sakhar near the capital, Baghdad, Press TV reports.
Israeli troops have shot and wounded two journalists covering a Palestinian protest in the West Bank held following the funeral of a 14-year-old Palestinian boy killed earlier by Israeli soldiers.
Jordanian Parliament Speaker Atef Tarawneh has compared the Israeli regime’s atrocities against the Palestinians to the ISIL Takfiri militants’ acts of violence in Syria and Iraq.
Following by beginning of the first Majlis of Ashura mourning at the Hussainiyyah Baqiyyatullah, Zaria, Nigeria, members of the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria led by His Eminence Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky across Nigeria have begun commemoration of Ashura Majalis.