At least forty people, mostly women and children are killed in the latest wave of US-led coalition airstrikes against the last remaining Islamic State-held pocket in Syria near the border with Iraq, the militants and some local residents said.

Air strikes by the US-led coalition yesterday killed 43 people, mostly civilians, in a holdout of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, a Britain-based monitor said.

Iraq's new President Barham Saleh made his first official visit to neighbouring Iran yesterday, calling for "a new order in the region". Saleh

Saudi Arabia has sought to draw a line under one of its biggest crises triggered by critic Jamal Khashoggi's murder, but an ever greater threat of international scrutiny and pressure hang over the kingdom.

Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for five out of 11 suspects charged in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, his office said yesterday, as the kingdom tries to contain its biggest political crisis in a generation.

A man wielding a knife entered an Israeli border police base in annexed east Jerusalem provoking a scuffle in which four officers were

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.