On the 29th of July 2016 the President of Uzbekistan chaired a Security Council meeting with government officials and heads of relevant departments regarding the “deteriorated security situations in neighboring Afghanistan and its spillover effects on the country’s southern border.’’ “Improvements in the security of Uzbekistan and co-operation with neighboring countries.”

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