A U.S. drone strike Monday killed at least four militants in Pakistan’s restive tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.

About 5.1 million Syrians are living in areas at high risk from explosive weapons, some of which fail to detonate and so will pose a deadly threat for years to come, aid group Handicap International said, according to Reuters news agency.

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz discussed Sunday the upcoming Camp David summit with his U.S. President Barack Obama, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

Houthi militias in Yemen accepted on Sunday a five-day humanitarian ceasefire proposed by their adversary Saudi Arabia but said they would respond to any violations, according to Reuters news agency.

According to an article written in Days of Palestine, an Israeli soldier has given his account of the events that occurred during the attacks on Gaza in July 2014.

Another top Bangladeshi Islamic leader, A.T.M. Azharul Islam, was sentenced to death on Tuesday, December 30, for rape, mass murder and genocide, charges vehemently denied by supporters who threatened a nationwide strike.

Stormy weather has forced Indonesian search teams to suspend the recovery of the bodies of 162 people aboard the ill-fated AirAsia plane which crashed into the Java Sea.

Islamist fighters clashed with pro-government forces for the second consecutive day Sunday as they pressed an advance on a key oil region in eastern Libya, sources on both sides reported, according to Agence-France Presse.

With the death of Uzbek imam Abdullah Bukhari, it has been discovered that there are 4 people on the intelligence Russian and Uzbek hit list.

About 400 people have been killed in six weeks of heavy fighting between Libyan pro-government forces and pro-Brotherhood groups in Libya’s second-largest city Benghazi, medical staff said on Saturday.