Russian pilot was killed in Syria on Saturday after parachuting into rebel-held territory when his plane was shot down, the Defense Ministry said.

At least 11 soldiers were killed and 13 wounded on Saturday in a suicide attack near an army base in northern Pakistan, officials said, in a region that was once controlled by a local faction of the Taliban.

Israeli warplanes bombed a site in the Gaza Strip at dawn Friday without causing any casualties, a Palestinian security source said.

At least 95 people have been killed and 158 were wounded in a powerful suicide blast in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Ten people, including six civilians and four armed assailants were killed during the siege of the Intercontinental Hotel in capital Kabul that finally came to an end on Sunday, according to a Ministry of Interior official.

Some 20,000 Palestinian Muslims prayed at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday despite inclement weather that caused several road accidents in the Palestinian territories, according to Firas al-Dibs, a spokesman for Jerusalem’s Religious Endowments (Awqaf) Authority.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has announced he will run for a second, four-year term in the country’s presidential elections that will take place in March.

Syrian regime warpanes carried out a chlorine gas attack in the Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus on Saturday, according to a Syrian paramedic group.

At least 23 people have been killed in Syrian and Russian air raids on the outskirts of the country’s capital Damascus.

A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in northeastern Nigeria has killed at least 11 people, according to reports.