The United States no longer refers to the Golan Heights as an "Israeli-occupied" territory in its latest annual human rights report, published on Wednesday, though the State Department insists the wording change doesn't mean a policy change.

US-backed forces said yesterday the Islamic State group was living its "final moments" after thunderous shelling on its last scrap of land in eastern Syria prompted 3,000 jihadists to surrender.

Kurdish-led forces yesterday said more people were surrendering from the Islamic State group's last scrap of territory in Syria, after overnight air raids and shelling ravaged jihadist outposts.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has demanded Pakistan act "decisively against anti-Iranian terrorists" in a phone call with the country's premier, Tehran said, a month after a bloody attack on security forces.

Thirty-six nations condemned Saudi Arabia on Thursday over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a rare censure of the oil-rich kingdom at the UN Human Rights Council.

Defeated but unrepentant, some jihadists limping out of their besieged final bastion in eastern Syria still praise the Islamic State and promise bloody vengeance against its enemies.

A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli fire during renewed clashes along the Gaza border overnight yesterday, the enclave's health

A mortar attack on a large ceremony attended by Afghanistan's chief executive and other leading government figures in Kabul yesterday killed three people and injured 22 others, officials said.

Republican and Democratic US senators said on Monday they were frustrated with the Trump administration's failure to provide more information about the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi and vowed to push for a stronger response.

The grand imam of Egypt's famed Al-Azhar institution, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, has described polygamy as an "injustice" for women.

A Syrian jihadist group linked to al-Qaeda killed 21 regime and allied forces yesterday near Idlib province, in one of the deadliest breaches of a six-month-old truce deal, a monitor said.

Tens of thousands of people in cities across Algeria called on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to leave office on Friday in the country's

The United States on Thursday offered a $1 million reward for information on a son of late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, seeing him as an emerging face of extremism.

Kurdish-led forces in Syria extracted hundreds more people from the ruins of the "caliphate" and yesterday prepared for a final assault against jihadists hunkered down for a desperate last stand.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long reign atop Israeli politics has earned him the nickname "King Bibi," but a decision ahead of April elections to indict him on corruption charges may be his biggest challenge yet.

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia battling Islamic State in Syria said yesterday it had freed 24 of its fighters held in

The US and the Taliban have paused negotiations in Doha, with the diplomatic push aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan set to restart

White House advisor Jared Kushner held talks with Saudi Arabia's king and crown prince during a regional tour to rally support for a long-awaited Middle East peace proposal, US officials said Wednesday.

The head of Libya's internationally recognised government and a military strongman who backs a rival administration in the country's east have met and agreed to hold elections, the United Nations said yesterday.

Israel's attorney general is expected to announce later yesterday a decision on whether he intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, Israeli media reported.