U.S. President Barack Obama urged Russia on Sunday to stop bombing “moderate” rebels in Syria in support of its ally Bashar al-Assad, a campaign seen in the West as a major obstacle to latest efforts to end the war.

Israeli forces have shot dead five Palestinians, including three teenagers, in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, after they allegedly attacked Israeli forces.

Saudi Arabia has sent aircraft to NATO-member Turkey’s Incirlik air base for the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian woman as she tried to stab a soldier in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday, the army said in a statement.

A report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research has said that nearly 12 percent of the Syrian population have been killed or injured in civil war.

A Palestinian journalist who has been on hunger strike under Israel’s detention since last November is “on the brink of death,” a Palestinian Authority (PA) official says.

Nine people were killed and more than 35 injured Saturday when a suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up near a security forces truck in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials said.

Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have gathered near a border crossing with Turkey after fleeing a major government offensive on rebel-held areas in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

At least two Pakistan airline employees have been killed and several others injured after clashes broke out between police and workers protesting against the privatisation of the national carrier, hospital officials said.

Yemeni President Abdrabu Mansur Hadi said Tuesday that military operations against Houthi militias would not stop until the Yemeni capital was liberated.