Israeli aircraft have struck dozens of “militant sites” across the Gaza Strip as Palestinians fired some 30 rockets into Israel in the heaviest exchange of fire between the bitter enemies in several weeks.

U.S.-led coalition warplanes struck a mosque in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province, killing at least seven people, according to local sources.

Pakistan has released the Afghan Taliban leader from prison, a spokesman for the Taliban announced on Thursday.

At least six people have been killed and 30 others wounded in a car bomb blast south of Mosul, police and medical sources said.

A Palestinian was martyred after Israeli soldiers opened fire in the West Bank city of Tubas, local health officials said Wednesday.

Polls have closed in Afghanistan’s long-awaited parliamentary elections, with large numbers of voters defying deadly attacks to cast their ballots.

At least 130 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli army fire during Friday’s protests near border of the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Syrian regime forces and pro-Assad foreign terrorists shelled several districts in the Idlib de-escalation zone on Friday in violation of the Sept. 17 Sochi agreement between Turkey and Russia.

The three top officials in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province were killed when their own guards opened fire on them at a security conference on Thursday, the deputy provincial governor said, however, a Taliban spokesman said the target was Washington’s top general in Afghanistan, General Scott Miller, who escaped without injury, according to Nato.

Pakistan has hanged a man convicted for the rape and murder of six-year-old Zainab Ansari in January.