A suicide bomber has targeted mourners at a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, killing 27 people, police and a doctor say, the latest in a series of attacks on funerals.
Boko Haram gunmen have opened fire in a college dormitory in northeast Nigeria as the students slept, killing at least 40 people.
Militants have killed six people in the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, officials say, in a rare attack on an area usually spared violence plaguing the country.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs has ruled out the possibility that the Islamic Republic may halt its uranium enrichment activities.
The ruling Al Khalifa regime in Bahrain has sentenced 50 followers of Islam’s Shia faith to jail terms of up to 15 years, according to sources in the country’s judiciary.
A senior Iranian foreign ministry official has reiterated Iran’s interest in further improving relations with regional countries, especially the Arab nations in the Persian Gulf region.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has said that his country’s crisis can come to an end within weeks if the US-led allies in Europe and the region halt their support for the foreign-backed insurgents fighting the government.
An Iranian deputy foreign minister has raised doubts that the recent phone exchange between presidents of Iran and the US can erase age-old grievances that Tehran holds against Washington.
Zionist settlers in the Old City of al-Quds (Jerusalem) have attacked two teenage Palestinian girls, punching them in the face.
Russian foreign minister has announced that the international chemical weapons expert will soon travel to Syria to begin inspecting the country’s chemical arms arsenal as part of the effort for their eventual destruction.