A suicide attack at a packed Shia mosque in the western Afghan province of Herat has killed dozens of people and injured scores, officials and eyewitnesses said.

Lawmakers voted Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the former petroleum minister, prime minister on Tuesday following last week’s resignation of Nawaz Sharif.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has stepped down after the Supreme Court disqualified him from office as leader of the country’s government.

Israel on Tuesday decided to remove metal detectors it had placed at the entrance to a holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City and replace them with smart, less obtrusive surveillance means, a cabinet statement said.

At least 22 people were killed and 32 injured on Monday in a suspected suicide attack in Pakistan’s northeastern city of Lahore, emergency officials said.

Sweden, France and Egypt on Saturday requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council following Israeli-Palestinian unrest in Jerusalem, diplomats said.

Israeli police shot dead three Palestinians who they claimed carried out an armed attack inside the flashpoint Al-Aqsa compound.

The UN’s envoy for Syria on Monday, July 10 opened a new round of indirect talks, the seventh so far, between Syrian government representatives and opposition leaders to try to wind down the battered country’s civil war, The Associated Press reports.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced “victory” over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the city of Mosul, his office said.

An open-ended cease-fire in southern Syria brokered by the United States and Russia has come into effect.