Russia’s defense ministry said on Tuesday that one of its military aircrafts with 15 people on board disappeared from radar screens over Syria because it was shot down inadvertantly by Syrian military.

The leaders of Russia and Turkey have agreed to establish a de-militarised zone in Syria’s Idlib province, in a move that ostensibly puts on hold a threatened all-out assault by government forces on Syria’s last rebel bastion.

At least eight Palestinians were injured Monday when Israeli troops fired on a group of stone-throwing Palestinian youth in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Israeli warplanes bombed a Hamas position in the east of the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to local sources.

The death toll from a suicide attack on Afghan protesters has soared to 68, officials said Wednesday, as violence flares across the country ahead of elections and a key Islamic holy day.

A suicide bomber has detonated his explosives close to a procession commemorating the death of a former anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban commander, wounding at least two people, a police spokesperson said.

Mawlana Abdol-Hamid pointed out to the economic problems and dilemmas hit Iranian people and called on the authorized offices to take quick and comprehensive steps for resolving the problems.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 75 people to death, including senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, over a 2013 sit-in protest in Cairo that ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters.

After performing Tamattu’ Hajj, Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid has returned home.

Air raids have pounded areas in Syria’s last rebel-held province of Idlib, killing several civilians and raising further concerns that an all-out government offensive is only a matter of time.