Afghan officials on Friday played down the consequences of the possible withdrawal of some 7,000 American troops from the country.

An Afghan peace negotiations team has arrived in Abu Dhabi, an official said Tuesday, a day after talks attended by US and Taliban representatives were held in the city aimed at ending the 17-year conflict.

A four-year-old Palestinian boy has died after being injured by Israeli gunfire at a routine protest near the fence with Israel, Gaza’s health authorities said.

Israeli army forces on Monday rounded up 16 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to the military.

Thousands of banner-waving Muslims dressed in white rallied in the Malaysian capital Saturday demanding protection of their rights, at a time of growing racial tensions in the multi-ethnic country.

A senior Taliban military commander has been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday.

The NATO-led Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan has launched investigations into a deadly U.S. air raid two days ago that claimed at least 30 lives.

Warplanes struck opposition territory in northwestern Syria on Sunday for the first time since Turkey and Russia agreed to create a buffer zone in the province of Idlib in September, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Dozens of people have been killed in a powerful suicide bomb blast that targeted a large gathering of top religious figures in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, according to officials.

Ameer Tableeghi Jamaat Haji Abdul Wahab passed away at Raiwind, Lahore on Sunday after a protracted illness. He was 96.