At least 12 people have been killed and several others wounded in a blast from a bomb planted on a bus near the Iraqi city of Karbala, south of Baghdad, two local police officers said.

Taliban representatives have held discussions with Russian officials in Moscow, just days after US President Donald Trump declared months-long peace talks between Washington and the group “dead”.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday confirmed that Hamza bin Laden, the son and designated heir of al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden, was killed in a counter-terrorism operation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza on Wednesday hours after rockets from the Palestinian enclave triggered sirens that forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu off the stage at an election rally in Israel.

Thousands of Palestinians on Saturday marched in the funerals of two children killed by Israeli occupation forces during the Great March of Return near the Gaza Strip border the day before.

Afghanistan’s government on Wednesday expressed new concerns about a deal that a U.S. envoy says has been reached “in principle” with the Taliban on ending America’s longest war

Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, the director general of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)

The United States is set to pull troops from five Afghan bases under a proposed deal with the Taliban

The lives of two sick Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons are in danger,

At least 75 Palestinians were injured Friday during protests in eastern Gaza.