Iraqi Shia militias launched an offensive on Saturday (October 29) towards the west of Mosul, an operation that would tighten the noose around ISIS stronghold in Iraq but could inflame sectarian tension in the mainly Sunni region.
Armed men have burned down a girls' school in northern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday, with police blaming the Taliban for the assault.
At least 25 people have been killed and dozens of others injured after a powerful car bomb explosion struck a busy market in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
People in Baghdad have been celebrating the lifting of a 12-year-old curfew in the Iraqi capital.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Islamic Republic of Iran has never succumbed to the West, and that it has managed to make progress day by day.
Iraq's cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has announced he is retiring from political life, in a handwritten note posted on his website.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohamed Javad Zarif says ''sectarian divide in the Islamic world” is probably the most serious threat to world security, stressing the cooperation of the regional countries to tackle the issue.