Gaza's interior ministry has condemned Israel’s assassination of a police official in the besieged enclave, saying the occupying regime’s repeated attacks on members of the police service is an attempt to spread chaos within Palestinian society.

A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco Friday night, killing at least 1,037 people and injuring hundreds of others.

Iran's Interior Ministry says the country will not withdraw from the Islamic rule of hijab.

"We condemn today the Israeli authorities' decision, against the law, to expel Salah Hamouri to France," the French Foreign Ministry said.

At least four people were killed and 25 others wounded after a powerful explosion ripped through a mosque inside the premises of Afghanistan’s interior ministry in Kabul on Wednesday.

Security forces in Kazakhstan have detained nearly 10,000 people in connection with last week's deadly unrest, the country’s interior ministry said on Tuesday.

The Taliban militant group captures a key district in Afghanistan’s central province of Wardak, despite the announcement of a three-day ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday.