Pakistan’s federal law minister stepped down early Monday, hoping to end a three-week long siege of the capital Islamabad, a prime ministry official confirmed to Anadolu Agency.

The death toll in the attack on a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has risen to 305 people, according to Egyptian authorities.

The Pakistani army has been called in to restore order to the capital after clashes between anti-blasphemy protesters and police left at least 174 people injured.

A total of 3,613 Palestinians have been killed in Syria since the outbreak of the country’s civil war in 2011, according to a London-based NGO.

Egyptian media reports say at least 235 people have been killed in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in the country’s northern Sinai Peninsula.

A member of Syria’s White Helmets civil-defense force was shot dead in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province on Thursday, according to a civil-defense official.

Israeli forces in Wednesday shot and injured a Palestinian and arrested another near a security fence between the blockaded Gaza Strip and Israel, according to the Israeli military.

Lush green hills surround al-Walaja, an agricultural terrain cultivated by locals for millennia that provides a respite from the typically arid landscape of much of the occupied West Bank. While residents of the small Palestinian village have long fought to preserve sovereignty over their lands, the Israeli government has other plans.

A suicide attacker has killed at least nine people, detonating his vest near a political gathering in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials confirmed.

The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Thursday on rival US and Russian bids to renew an international inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria, diplomats said, a move that could trigger Russia’s 10th veto to block action on Syria.