Suicide bombers targeted an anti-Taliban tribal leader in eastern Afghanistan and the Defense Ministry compound in the capital, Kabul, killing at least 23 people on Saturday and wounding dozens more, officials said.

The first major truce in Syria’s five-year civil war has come into effect.

A staggering 24 million Pakistani children are out of school, a new government report showed, laying bare the state of education in a country where around a quarter of the population is believed to be under 16.

Twenty-two years have passed since Israeli-American Baruch Goldstein opened fire inside al-Khalil Ibrahimi Mosque, killing 29 and injuring 125.

The Syrian government and the main opposition umbrella group say they accept the terms of a deal to cease hostilities from Saturday.

The US and Russia have agreed on a “cessation of hostilities” between the Syrian government and groups fighting it in a deal that excludes the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and the al-Nusra Front.

A suicide bomber targeting a police commander has killed at least 13 people, including nine civilians, in Afghanistan’s northern Parwan province, an official said.

A string of suicide bombings near a Shia shrine outside Syria’s capital and in Homs claimed by the militant Islamic State (IS) group killed more than 150 people Sunday, as Washington and Moscow worked to secure a ceasefire.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader alluded to the start of election campaign in Iran, and called on candidates and their supporters to take care of Islamic ethical codes.

More than 700 Palestinians are currently being held byIsrael without being charged or put on trial, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said today.