As millions of Pakistanis vote to elect their next government today, a string of offers have been thrown at them in what can only be described as blending of marketing gimmicks with democracy.

Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Chairman Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim has welcomed the ratification of the Bangsamoro Law — a key piece of legislation for expanded autonomy in a region of the southern Philippines.

At least 14 people have been killed in Iraq in two weeks of protests over corruption and lack of public services, a member of the state human rights commission said Monday.

Israel will reopen its only goods crossing with the blockaded Gaza Strip on Tuesday if calm is maintained, a minister said, after having closed it July 9 partly over kites carrying firebombs.

A suicide bombing has killed a candidate in Pakistan’s general election in the northwestern town of Dera Ismail Khan, the latest in a series of deadly attacks targeting the polling process.

Hundreds of people were evacuated Friday from Syria’s southwestern Quneitra province to opposition-held parts of Idlib, in line with an agreement between the Assad regime and armed opposition groups.

The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques in Saudi Arabia has unveiled its two-month plan for the upcoming Hajj season, stretching from the current month till the end of August.

Four Palestinians were killed Friday by Israeli forces in two separate incidents near the Gaza-Israel buffer zone, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Israeli forces rounded up 29 Palestinians in overnight raids across the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a Palestinian NGO said Wednesday.

At least two teenagers in the Gaza Strip have been killed by Israeli air raids, according to Palestinian health officials, as Israel carried out the largest daylight attack on the besieged enclave since the 2014 war.