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As fighting continues, health workers were struggling to get medicines and supplies into Afghanistan.

Germany's Tagesspiegel said the group glorified "Islamic State" fighting on the internet and called for the killing of Jews.

The operation has targeted Sunni Muslim insurgents from the former Nusra Front, a group that was aligned to al Qaeda and who have controlled the barren, mountainous zone of Juroud Arsal.

Hosny had quit after being criticised for describing researcher Islam El-Behery, known for controversial interpretations of Islamic jurisprudence, as an apostate.

There have been increased protests in the Sunni Muslim-ruled kingdom after the execution last month of three Shi'ite Muslim men convicted of killing three policemen in a bomb attack in 2014.

An Egyptian box office hit that highlights the religious establishment's cosy relations with the state has provoked a backlash from Sunni Muslim clerics, with some calling for the film to be banned.

Many young Saudis have turned to social media networks to pursue forbidden relationships. And the religious police have followed, monitoring online forums.

With thousands of Syrian men dying on the front lines of the conflict that began in March 2011, the rates of divorce and polygamy in Syria are rising.

The Maldives' highest court has overturned a sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery.

The leading Sunni Muslim seat of learning, Al-Azhar, condemned China Friday for imposing restriction on fasting in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region during the holy month of Ramadan.