An airstrike has hit a maternity hospital in northern Syria supported by Save the Children, the charity has said. Two people were killed in the attack, and several others injured including a woman who was six months pregnant who lost her leg. Several babies were also hurt when their incubators crashed to the floor in the attack.

According the news presented by Vox on last Sunday, July 17, multiple police officers were shot and three of them were killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. The suspect who was killed by law enforcement in a shootout has been identified as Gavin Long, 29, from Kansas City, Missouri.

Japan Times reported this early July that Japan's Supreme Court has upheld the government's blanket surveillance of the country's Muslim community. The court struck down the second appeal by Japanese Muslim plaintiffs against what they perceive as an unconstitutional invasion of their privacy and freedom of religion

Over the last fortnight, there has been a spate of horrific Islamophobic attacks on Muslims in the US. On the 3rd of July, Al Jazeera and other media outlets reported that a Muslim doctor was stabbed and then shot twice while heading to the mosque for Fajr prayers in the US city of Houston, Texas.