Saudi-led coalition warplanes launched fresh air strikes against Shia rebels across Yemen on Wednesday despite international concerns over the escalation after the suspension of peace talks.
Saudi-led coalition warplanes have resumed air strikes on Yemen's capital for the first time in three months, killing 14 people on Tuesday and shutting the airport after UN-brokered talks were suspended.
The Syrian regime's key ally Russia launched heavy air strikes overnight on the outskirts of divided Aleppo city, slowing a "last-chance" assault by rebels seeking to break a government siege.
Islamic State group militants clashed on Saturday with US-backed fighters in the Syrian town of Manbij, pursuing their fierce defence of the jihadist stronghold and ignoring a deadline to leave.
Air strikes by the US-led coalition killed at least 21 civilians in and around a stronghold of the Islamic State group in northern Syria on Monday, a monitor said.
Syrian troops pushed into the Islamic State group's bastion province Raqa on Saturday for the first time since 2014, in an advance towards the country's largest dam, a monitor said.
Iraqi government forces fought Islamic State militants near Falluja on Monday and bombarded central districts at the outset of an offensive to retake the longtime jihadist stronghold.
Three car bombs in Baghdad, including a huge blast at a market in a Shia area, killed at least 94 people on Wednesday, the bloodiest day in the Iraqi capital this year.
Yemen's Houthi movement accused a Saudi-led coalition of launching air strikes that killed seven people, shaking a truce that has largely held through more than two weeks of UN-backed peace talks in Kuwait.
Displaced families returned home and schools reopened in rebel-held districts of Syria's Aleppo on Saturday after a truce was extended for 72 hours in the battleground northern city.
The Turkish army carried out air strikes in rural parts of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq, targeting logistics posts used by Kurdish militants, security sources said on Saturday.
A barrage of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Syria's second city Aleppo and a town to its west have killed at least 19 people, emergency workers said.
