President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has advised Muslims “not to lock women up” in comments made in Istanbul at an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on women’s roles.

Israeli authorities on Tuesday demolished several graves in occupied East Jerusalem’s historical Bab al-Rahmeh cemetery east of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to a Palestinian official.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a request by his military to resume air raids over Syria’s rebel-held eastern Aleppo.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting with Hamas leaders Khalid Mashal and Ismail Haniyeh in Doha on Thursday.

Yemeni rebels have launched one of their longest-range strikes against Saudi Arabia, firing a ballistic missile that was shot down near Mecca, the Saudi-led coalition fighting them said on Friday.

At least 60 people have been killed in an attack on a police training centre in the city of Quetta, Pakistani officials said after announcing the end of a military counter-operation.

Palestinian leaders have welcomed a decision by the United Nations cultural agency to adopt a resolution on occupied East Jerusalem that sharply criticises Israeli policies around the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, while Israel says it ignores Jewish ties to the key holy site.

A short truce seems to be faltering in Syria’s Aleppo, after activists reported Syrian activists say warplanes struck two rebel-held villages shortly after Russian and Syrian airstrikes were halted.

Israel has suspended cooperation with UNESCO a day after the United Nations cultural body passed a resolution that sharply criticised Israeli policies around the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, while supposedly rejecting Jewish ties to the holy site in occupied East Jerusalem.

Syria’s Aleppo city was the scene of mass carnage on Wednesday with at least 81 civilians killed in air strikes on rebel-held neighbourhoods, a local rescue group said.