A Palestinian teen has been killed and two other men wounded by Israeli fire in southern Gaza, according to health officials.

The US-led coalition has air-dropped US and allied Syrian forces near Tabqa in Raqqa province, expanding a campaign by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militias against ISIS, the SDF said on Wednesday.

Syrian rebels stormed a government-held area in northeastern Damascus on Tuesday for the second time in three days, sources on both sides said, pressing the boldest assault on the capital by opposition fighters in several years.

Heavy clashes rocked eastern districts of the Syrian capital on Sunday after rebel fighters launched a surprise assault on government forces, a monitor and state television said.

A rocket fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip slammed into southern Israel on Saturday, prompting retaliatory Israeli tank fire, sources on both sides said.

Janna Jihad, a 10-year old Palestinian girl, is counted as the youngest journalist in the world.

The US on Friday denied hitting a Syrian mosque and killing at least 49 civilians in an air strike targeting al-Qaeda, saying it had killed dozens of militants and had no reports of civilian casualties.

The Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umra and the Pilgrimage Organization of Iran completed all the necessary arrangements for the participation of Iranian pilgrims in the Hajj season of 2017 (1438AH), according to the approved procedures with various Islamic countries.

Syria’s war has killed just over 320,000 people since it erupted six years ago, a monitor said Monday, noting that a fragile ceasefire had helped to slow the rising death toll.

Overthrown Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will be released from detention in a military hospital, the public prosecutor ruled on Monday, his lawyers and judicial sources said.