The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Sunday claimed responsibility for bombings near a revered Shiite shrine outside the Syrian capital Damascus that killed at least 60 people, including 25 Shiite fighters.

Residents of the besieged Syrian town of Madaya continue to die of starvation and a lack of medical supplies, despite the delivery of aid earlier this month, according to a leading humanitarian agency.

At least 39 migrants, including several children, have drowned trying to cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece, coastguards say.

The umbrella body comprising Syria’s principal mainstream opposition groups threatened Saturday to withdraw from peace talks shortly after its delegation arrived in Geneva if the “crimes” of Bashar al-Assad’s regime persisted.

Four people were killed and 18 wounded on Friday when a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Saudi Arabia’s eastern governate of al-Ahsa on Friday, a Saudi interior ministry spokesman said.

The main Syrian opposition bloc has said it will send a small delegation to talk with UN officials in Geneva, where the United Nations on Friday started peace talks, but said it wanted to discuss humanitarian issues before engaging in political negotiations.

The Afghan Taliban will participate in the ongoing peace talks only if their conditions, which include the removal of their members from a UN blacklist, are met, the armed group’s representatives have said.

A rocket fired by militants in the Palestinian Gaza Strip enclave hit southern Israel on Sunday without causing casualties or damage, the Israeli army said.

Tunisia’s Prime Minister Habib Essid held an emergency cabinet meeting Saturday, after authorities declared a nighttime curfew nationwide following the worst outbreak of social unrest since the 2011 revolution.

An Israeli security guard has shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian girl during an alleged stabbing attempt outside the Almon settlement in the occupied West Bank, situated near Jerusalem.