For Muslims visiting Gangneung -- one of three venues in Gangwon Province where the games will be held -- “mobile prayer rooms” will be set up in the region to attract more Muslims.

The repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar due to begin Tuesday will be delayed, a Bangladesh official said, citing the huge task of preparing transit centres and approving lists of returnees.

He then asked one of them about her faith and why she was not wearing a hijab. The headscarf is a veil usually worn to cover the head and chest by some Muslim women in the presence of adult males outside of their immediate family as a symbol of modesty and privacy.

The reporters “illegally acquired information with the intention to share it with foreign media,” said the statement, which was accompanied by a photo of the pair in handcuffs.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Myanmar has told the UN independent investigator into human rights in the country that it will not cooperate with her or grant her access to the country for the rest of her tenure, she said in a statement on Wednesday.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - At least 6,700 Rohingya were killed by Myanmar security forces in one month following a government-led crackdown in the country's Rakhine state in late August, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Rohingya refugees continue to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh even though both countries set up a timetable last month to allow them to start to return home, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Dar-ol-Quran Center of the Astan (custodianship) of Imam Hussein’s (AS) holy shrine has organized the 14th edition of a Quran teacher training course for women in Jakarta, Indonesia.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Pope Francis has arrived in Bangladesh from Myanmar, urging the international community to address the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in the country.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A United Nations women’s rights panel called on Myanmar on Tuesday to report within six months on rapes and sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls by its security forces in northern Rakhine state and measures taken to punish soldiers.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Iranian naval delegation, who is in Bangladesh to attend International Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise (IMMSAREX), met and talked with Bangladesh navy head in Dhaka.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi was announced the 2017 International Islamophobe of the Year on Sunday.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Jose Claveria De Venecia, the special envy of Philippine President Duterte for intercultural dialogue, is pushing for talks between Sunni and Shia Muslims, no matter how “difficult”, “slim” and “almost impossible” it may sound.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Widespread atrocities against Rohingya Muslim women and girls have been orchestrated and perpetrated by Burma's military and may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, the UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict has said.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has come under global scrutiny for backing an ethnic cleansing campaign against the country’s unwanted Muslim population, has blamed “illegal immigration” for conflicts and “spread of terrorism” across the world.