Afghanistan's vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum, escapes unhurt from an attack that killed one of his bodyguards, dodging death for the second time since returning from exile last year.

Israeli fire kills a Palestinian man near the Gaza border, Palestinian Health officials say, as Israel's forces mass at the frontier ahead of a rally to mark the first anniversary of a surge of Gaza border protests.

Saudi Arabia yesterday released three out of 11 women detained last year in a sweeping crackdown on activists, a close relative and London-based rights group ALQST said.

A military helicopter has crashed in southwestern Kazakhstan, killing all 13 servicemen on board, the defence ministry said yesterday.

Palestinian militants fired three rockets at Israel overnight prompting retaliatory fire from Israel, with the exchanges threatening a Hamas-declared truce.

Syria has asked the United Nations Security Council to hold an urgent meeting on the US decision to recognize the Golan Heights as Israeli territory.

Saudi Arabia rejected US President Donald Trump's recognition Monday of Syria's Golan Heights as Israeli territory condemning it as a

The death toll of floods that have swept across most Iranian provinces has risen to 18 with more than 70 injured, the country's

Syria's Kurds yesterday called for an international court to be set up in the country to try suspected Islamic State group jihadists following the announced fall of their "caliphate".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut short a visit to the United States yesterday and the military dispatched reinforcements to the Gaza border after a rocket attack near Tel Aviv wounded seven people.

Ten children, part of the same extended family, were killed by a US air strike in Afghanistan, along with three adult civilians, the United Nations said yesterday.

Syria's Kurds yesterday warned that despite the demise of the Islamic State's "caliphate", the thousands of foreign jihadists they hold

Smelling of fresh paint, the two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch where a gunman killed 50 worshippers last week

2004-11: In the chaos following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, an al-Qaeda offshoot sets up there, changing its name in 2006 to Islamic State in Iraq.

US-backed fighters say they have captured Islamic State's last shred of ground in eastern Syria - but while its era of territorial rule may be over for now, there is near universal agreement that IS remains a threat.

Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in renewed clashes along the Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in the enclave said.

Almost 100 people, mostly women and children, died Thursday as a ferry packed with families celebrating Kurdish New Year sank in a swollen river in the former jihadist stronghold of Mosul, in Iraq's worst accident in years.

Kurdish-led forces yesterday combed the banks of the Euphrates in eastern Syria to smoke out the last jihadists preventing the much-delayed announcement of the demise of the Islamic State's "caliphate".

Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in clashes near a flashpoint religious site in the occupied West Bank overnight yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Top US diplomat Mike Pompeo yesterday sought to bolster a united front against Iran during a Middle East tour that will include talks