A family Hyderabad, the capital of southern India's Telangana state, is engaged in the fascinating and painstaking task of engraving the Holy Quran on iron plaques.
Pingliang Arabic School, a charity that caters to underprivileged students, has been told by city education officials to close by December 17 and send its 200 students and 20 teachers home.
Amnesty International urges the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch a full-blown probe into the atrocities committed by both the Boko Haram terrorists and the Nigerian military during the militancy campaign in the African country, criticizing Abuja for not doing enough to bring those responsible to justice.
A commander of the Taliban group Mullah Nusrat was killed with his eleven fighters in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, the Afghan military said.
Thousands of Hindus, including monks, have gathered in the Indian capital of New Delhi to participate in a demonstration calling for the construction of a temple on the site of a historical mosque demolished by Hindu extremists in 1992.
On the past few days, a group of delegates from Ahlulbait Cultural and Charitable Institute in Basra which were headed by Sheikh Sadiq Al-Basri, along with some clerics from the Quranic booths set up by this institute during Arbaeen pilgrimage met with the Grand Shia Jurist Ayatollah Sayed Sadiq Shirazi in the Holy City of Qom.
The Indian national carrier Air India is looking to start a flight service to Iraqi holy city of Najaf from Lucknow in UP via New Delhi, starting early next year.
The Afghan Special Forces have rescued at least eleven civilians who were kept as prisoners in a cell run by the Taliban militants in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan.
