A restaurant in northern Syria’s Manbij town center was rocked by an explosion Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and injuring many others, a Syrian war monitoring group said.

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at Israel late Saturday, Israel’s army said, prompting retaliatory strikes on the territory’s rulers Hamas as tensions rose after another day of violent border clashes.

A Turkish charity agency handed out some 51,000 copies of Quran, Muslim holy book, in 10 countries and regions in 2018, the aid group said on Thursday.

At least 168 people have been killed and over 700 injured after a volcano-triggered tsunami hit both sides of Indonesia’s Sunda Strait on Saturday, sending a wall of water crashing some 20 metres inland and sweeping away hundreds of homes and hotels, officials and witnesses have said.

Three Palestinians were killed and dozens others injured on Friday when the Israeli occupation forces violently quelled the Great March of Return on Gaza border.

Afghan officials on Friday played down the consequences of the possible withdrawal of some 7,000 American troops from the country.

An Afghan peace negotiations team has arrived in Abu Dhabi, an official said Tuesday, a day after talks attended by US and Taliban representatives were held in the city aimed at ending the 17-year conflict.

A four-year-old Palestinian boy has died after being injured by Israeli gunfire at a routine protest near the fence with Israel, Gaza’s health authorities said.

Israeli army forces on Monday rounded up 16 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to the military.

Thousands of banner-waving Muslims dressed in white rallied in the Malaysian capital Saturday demanding protection of their rights, at a time of growing racial tensions in the multi-ethnic country.