A bomb attack targeting an outdoor wedding party in south-eastern Turkey, killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 70 others, on the night of August 20. (Agencies)

On Sunday 14/08/2016, the Doctors Without Borders organisation reported that 10 children had been killed in Yemen and 28 others had been wounded, all of whom were under the age of 15, in an attack undertaken by the Saudi-led Arab coalition upon a school for Quran memorisation in the Haidan region of North Yemen.

On August 13th, the BBC reported that the President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev made derogatory, insulting statements regarding the Islamic dress of Muslim women during a press conference, suggesting that it was potentially dangerous by associating it with terrorism.

On 18 August 2016 the Telegraph Newspaper, along with many other news outlets reported that Ismail Berdiyev, a senior Muslim cleric from Dagestan has advised that “all women” should be subjected to the practice of Female Circumcision to eliminate immorality in society.