The Palestinian unity government will resign, President Mahmoud Abbas has announced.

Libya’s recognised government says that the leader of an al-Qaeda-linked group in Algeria, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, has been killed in a coordinated attack with the US.

At least 17 policemen have been killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand province after “hundreds of Taliban fighters” attacked the police compound, officials said.

The United States says it has sent another six Yemeni detainees from its controversial Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to Oman for resettlement.

Eight Houthi miltias were killed and 11 others injured during clashes with the Yemeni Popular Resistance – allied to internationally-recognized President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi – in the southwestern city of Taez, Al Arabiya New Channel reported on Wednesday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accepted the government’s resignation in a procedural move following a recent parliamentary election.

At least 49 civilians, including six children, were killed on Monday in Syrian government air strikes on a town in Idlib province in the country’s northwest, a monitoring group said.

The result of Sunday’s general election is a major blow to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), which has failed, for the first time since it came to power in 2002, to obtain enough votes to form a single-party government, although it is still the party that received the most votes.

Barack Obama has admitted that the US has no complete strategy for training Iraqi forces to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.

The Saudi air defense on Saturday intercepted a scud missile fired by Houthi militias and supporters of deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh toward the southwestern Saudi city of Khamis Mushait.