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Residents of Kurdish-majority areas of Syria voted on Friday in the region's first elections, part of a push to cement a regional government, which Damascus has dismissed as a "joke"
Three more suspects have been arrested in the UK over last week's bombing of a busy commuter train in west London, as Britain's threat level remains at "severe".
Rebel shelling of a residential neighbourhood of Yemen's third-largest city Taiz killed four boys aged between seven and 15, a local official said on Tuesday.
Qatar has agreed to buy 24 fighter jets from Britain, Doha's defence secretary said on Sunday, the emirate's second major military purchase since the beginning of the Gulf diplomatic crisis.
Russia's military fired seven cruise missiles on Thursday at Islamic State targets in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zour as pro-government forces closed in on the militants there
Suicide bombers attacked a restaurant and a police checkpoint near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on Thursday, killing at least 50 people.
Israel is the first country to come out in support of the upcoming Kurdish referendum, while Western powers fear a split could provoke a new round of conflict in Iraq.
Saudis have been urged to report social media users who share messages deemed to "endanger national unity" or "harm the state's reputation" as the kingdom continues its crackdown on dissent.
Israeli jets carried out airstrikes early Thursday in Syria's Hama, targeting what is believed to be a chemical weapons factory, after the UN accused Assad's regime of dropping chemical bombs.
More than a dozen Syrian rebel factions have thrown their weight behind a proposed plan to create a single "national army" to unify the fractured opposition movement.
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group says a 17-bus convoy of IS militants and their families is stranded in the Syrian desert.
Israel is welcoming the extension of a UN peacekeeping operation under tougher directives in southern Lebanon adding it must act to maintain stability there.
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