A Palestinian stabbed and wounded two Israeli police officers in east Jerusalem near the Old City on Monday before being shot by forces at the scene, police said.

Turkish air planes hit Islamic State targets in northern Syria, the Turkish military said in a statement on Monday.

Israeli forces shot and seriously injured a Palestinian man after he allegedly stabbed an Israeli army officer yesterday morning at a guard post in the illegal Israeli settlement of Efrat southwest of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.

Islamist suspects killed three Yemeni soldiers in two separate shootings in the south on Sunday, officials said, the latest in a spate of attacks on security forces.

New fighting erupted early Sunday between forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity government and those of a rival administration for control of key eastern oil ports.

Islamic State shot down a Syrian military plane in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, the Islamic State-affiliated news agency Amaq said on Sunday.

An assailant believed to be Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli officer in a West Bank settlement early Sunday before being shot by forces at the scene, the army said.

Unidentified gunmen killed two Saudi policemen in the city of Dammam late on Saturday, the interior ministry said, describing it as a "terrorist attack".

A UN humanitarian group yesterday said it was frustrated by its inability to deliver badly needed aid to the divided Syrian city of Aleppo, amid growing fears of the collapse of a US-Russian truce that went into effect in Syria a few days ago.

The Arab League yesterday condemned the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation government, the last of which was the execution of three Palestinians, “in cold blood” on Friday in Jerusalem and Al Khalil (Hebron).

Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system destroyed two rockets fired from Syria at the Israeli-held zone of the Golan Heights Saturday in an apparent rise in tension between the uneasy neighbours.

An Egyptian court froze assets of five prominent human rights defenders and three non-governmental organisations on Saturday, provoking fears of an intensified crackdown on civil society.