Hamas and three other Palestinian groups on Friday condemned Paris talks aimed at restarting moribund peace negotiations with Israel.
Saudi Arabia has intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Yemen and a Saudi-led military coalition said in a statement late on Monday it may be forced to reconsider a truce that has been place since April.
Incoming Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte said on Sunday he would seek an early start to peace talks with communist rebels and free detained guerrilla chieftains when he takes office in end-June.
A fifth round of four-nation talks aimed at laying the ground for a negotiated end to the Afghan war began in Pakistan on Wednesday, as hopes faded for bringing the Taliban insurgents to the table quickly.
French President Francois Hollande said an international conference due in late May in Paris to relaunch peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis had been postponed but would take place this summer.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told France's foreign minister on Sunday that Israel remained opposed to a French initiative for an international conference to try revive peace talks.
Communist guerrillas killed three Philippine soldiers in the first fatal clash since a newly-elected president offered to restart stalled peace talks, the military said on Sunday.
Yemen's government and Iran-backed rebels agreed on Tuesday to free half of the prisoners and detainees held by both sides, in the first breakthrough in peace talks that began last month.
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.
UN-backed peace talks to end Yemen's civil war resumed on Wednesday after they were suspended by the Yemeni government for three days in protest at a Houthi assault on a military base near Sanaa.
A delegation from the Afghan Taliban's political office in Qatar arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday to discuss the restarting of peace talks with Kabul, militant sources said.
At least 27 civilians were killed in regime bombardment on rebel-held areas across Syria, a monitor and local sources said, in the latest deadly violence despite a ceasefire deal.
