Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest well-known female Muslim scholar Aisha al-Muhajiri reportedly for teaching the holy Qur'an at her home.

The Turkish Interior Ministry says 718 suspects have been detained in nationwide counter-terrorism operations against the PKK militant group.

Turkey arrests 39 more suspects over affiliation to the Gulen movement, which the Ankara government blames for the 2016 coup attempt.

Israeli forces shoot and injure two Palestinian workers in the West Bank city of Jenin.

The Lebanese army says it has arrested 18 people linked to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the town of Arsal on the border with Syria.

Russian police have arrested hundreds staging protests in support of detained Western-backed blogger Alexei Navalny.

Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations slams the arrest of US-based independent political scientist Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi by FBI agents on baseless charges.

Navalny, 45, was taken ill on a domestic flight on August 20 last year.

The arrests were made during a raid on a house in Shwe Pyi Thar township of Yangon Region.

Police in Hong Kong arrest dozens of individuals for violating the national security law by either organizing or participating in an unauthorized “primary election” in the semi-autonomous city last year.