Former Member of Parliament Sheikh Hassan Isa's defence lawyer Abdullah Al-Shamlawi said that the Public Prosecution renewed for the fourth consecutive time, on Thursday (October 22, 2015), the detention of Sheikh Hassan Isa for 15 additional days.

The Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom has condemned Saudi Arabia’s death sentence on the anti-regime Shi’ite cleric, Ayatollah al-Nimr, and called for his release and for all Muslims and Muslim scholars to raise their voices against this sentence.

The Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani has blasted a report by a UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights situation in Iran.

Iran is pursuing ambitions plans to create a major free trade zone on its southwestern border areas with Iraq reminiscent of Jebel Ali, the hugely successful UAE trade hub that serves the Persian Gulf.

Joining local and international rescue efforts, Muslim charities have rushed to offer humanitarian assistance to thousands of people affected by the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Israeli forces have shot and killed another Palestinian in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron), the occupied West Bank.

Iranian human rights activists and academics have called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to pressure Saudi rulers and prevent them from carrying out the death sentence handed down to prominent Shia cleric Nimr Baqr al-Nimr.

The United States and its allies are said to be increasing troops stationed in countries bordering Russia by deploying up to 4,000 more forces.

Over 1,000 militants have arrived in the Yemeni city of Aden to join the Daesh Takfiri terrorists in the war-torn country and fight against the Houthi Ansarullah fighters.