Private cement deliveries to the Gaza Strip resumed on Monday after Israel lifted a six-week ban it imposed over the alleged diversion of materials by an official in the Palestinian territory.
Twin bombings targeting the Yemeni army in second city Aden on Monday killed at least 41 people, most of them would-be recruits, a military official said.
Mohammed al-Sheikh is only 12 and feels trapped in Gaza but he dreams of a Guinness world record for a series of stunning backflips and his almost unbelievable body contortions.
A regime air strike killed at least 13 members of the same family, including eight children, in central Syria on Wednesday, a monitor said.
At least 50 fighters and two civilians were killed Tuesday in clashes between rival anti-regime groups east of Syria's capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Major powers including the US discussed in Vienna on Monday the growing threat posed by the Islamic State group in conflict-wracked Libya, just across the Mediterranean from Europe.
Lebanon's Hezbollah on Saturday blamed Islamist extremists for killing the Shia militant group's top military commander in Syria in an artillery attack.
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah announced on Friday that its top military commander had been killed in an attack in Syria in a major blow to the coalition supporting the Damascus regime.
Militants, including suicide bombers, killed at least 13 Yemeni troops outside the southeastern port city of Mukalla on Thursday, the army said, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
The Islamic State group has released a video showing five alleged ‘spies’ being shot dead in Iraq by young men from a crowd assembled for the execution.
A car bomb claimed by Islamic State in a Shia Muslim district of Baghdad killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 60 others on Wednesday, Iraqi police and hospital sources said.
Two elderly Israeli women were stabbed and moderately wounded in Jerusalem on Tuesday by Palestinians who were arrested after fleeing, police said.
