A Taliban truck bomb has struck a heavily guarded hotel for foreigners in the Afghan capital, just days after the deadliest attack in Kabul for 15 years.

One of the biggest maternity hospitals in a rebel-held area of Syria has been bombed, leaving an unknown number of casualties.

Shaikh Abdol-Hamid expressed his deep sorrow on the assassination of Mufti Ihtishamulhaq Asia-Abadi and his son condoling his family, students and followers.

A double bomb attack killed a least 44 people in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria on Wednesday, Syrian state television reported.

Israeli soldiers have killed a Palestinian man the military had accused of shooting dead an Israeli rabbi, after an exchange of gunfire in the occupied West Bank.

Unknown armed men have shot dead Mufti Ihtisham-ul-Haq Asiabadi, an eminent Baloch scholar and leader of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) along with his son in Kech district of Baluchistan, Pakistan.

At least 15 people were killed and scores injured in a suicide bombing in north-eastern Iraq on Monday, according to an Iraqi police officer.

Twin explosions targeting a large demonstration by members of Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazara minority in Kabul have killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 230, officials have said.

Saudi Arabia’s air defense system has destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Saturday, security sources told the Arabic website of Al Arabiya News Channel.

Turkey has formally charged 99 generals and admirals in connection with the weekend’s thwarted coup attempt – a significant chunk of the country’s military top brass.