Major assaults by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's western province of Farah bordering Iran, mounted with the aim of weakening the government's grip on the region, have killed at least 30 Afghan security forces, officials said yesterday.

Air strikes by the US-led coalition have killed 38 people in an eastern Syria holdout of the Islamic State group on the Iraqi border, a war

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday announced his resignation and called for early elections after a sharp

Diplomatic efforts appeared to have eased fighting in Yemen's Hodeida yesterday, as Britain said the Saudi-led coalition had agreed to the evacuation of wounded rebels from the country ahead of proposed peace talks in Sweden.

The latest round of violence began on Sunday, when Israeli special forces were exposed operating inside the Gaza Strip. In an ensuing

Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip announced an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel on Tuesday after a severe escalation of violence threatened to descend into full-blown war.

Two migrants including a child died after their boat sank off Turkey's western coast yesterday, the Turkish coastguard said, adding that a

At least 150 people have been killed in 24 hours of clashes in Yemen's Hodeida, medics and military sources said yesterday, as

Afghan security forces suffered scores of casualties in heavy fighting, officials said yesterday, as Taliban militants step up battlefield

A clash that erupted during an Israeli special forces operation in the Gaza Strip and killed eight people threatened to derail efforts to restore calm to the Palestinian enclave after months of unrest.

The head of investigations at the Turkish Daily Sabah newspaper has told Al Jazeera that Jamal Khashoggi's last words were "I'm suffocating ... Take this bag off my head, I'm claustrophobic", according to an audio recording from inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan discuss how to respond to the killing last month of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, a White House official says.

Yemeni government forces pushed further into the strategic port city of Hodeida seizing its main hospital in heavy fighting yesterday as their Saudi-led coalition backers put a brave face on an end to US refuelling support.

Flash floods killed 11 people in Jordan and forced nearly 4,000 tourists to flee the famed ancient desert city of Petra, emergency services said yesterday.

Syrian government forces killed 23 rebels near Idlib province yesterday, the deadliest clash to rock a buffer zone where a Russian-Turkish truce is to be enforced.

President Donald Trump's strategy to contain Iranian power in the Middle East by forging Arab allies into a US-backed security alliance is in trouble even before the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, three US sources said, the plan faces fresh complications.

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire during clashes along the border of the Gaza Strip yesterday. Israel's military said soldiers opened

Dozens of combatants were killed as pro-government forces closed in on rebel forces in the heart of the Yemeni port city of Hodeida yesterday, hospital sources said.

Saudi King Salman embarked on an unprecedented domestic tour on Tuesday as the country grapples with an international crisis over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

More than 200 mass graves containing up to 12,000 victims have been found so far in Iraq that could hold vital evidence of war crimes by the IS, the UN said yesterday. The UNAMI said they documented the mass graves in parts of western and northern Iraq held by IS between 2014 and 2017.