A diplomatic spat between NATO allies Turkey and the Netherlands over Turkish campaigning abroad for a referendum escalated on March 11 when Dutch authorities denied the Turkish foreign minister’s plane permission to land.

At least 23 people were killed Sunday in deadly clashes between Iraqi forces and Daesh militants in western Mosul amid an ongoing offensive to dislodge the terrorist group from the northern city, according to a local police officer.

An imprisoned Palestinian journalist ended a 32-day hunger strike on Friday after receiving assurances Israel would not extend his detention without trial next month, his wife and lawyer said.

Gunmen dressed in white lab coats stormed a hospital in the Afghan capital and battled security forces for hours, killing more than 30 people and wounding dozens.

Thousands of civilians fled Mosul overnight as Iraqi forces advanced north of a sprawling military base near the city’s airport on Friday.

A picture taken in 1954 revealed the rectangular form of the Grand Mosque, the ‘Tawaf’ – which is the area where Muslims circumnavigate the Kaaba as a ritual – as well as the fence placed around the Mosque and the Bani Shaibah door.

Suicide attacks on two security service bases in the heart of Syria’s government-held third city of Homs killed 42 people on Saturday, overshadowing peace talks in Geneva, state television and a monitor said.

With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday bakcing the pardoning of a soldier sentenced to 18 months in prison for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian assailant, the sentenced was deplored with the UN also saying it was “disturbed” by the light sentence.

Standing by the side of a highway near the main gates to Ariel West, an Israeli industrial zone in the heart of the West Bank district of Salfit, Jamal Omar Fazaa makes a sweeping gesture with his hand.

Turkey’s army is lifting a historic ban on female officers wearing the Islamic headscarf in the officially secular country, the state-run Anadolu news agency said Wednesday.