Three Palestinians – including an eight-month old baby – have died from Israeli fire and another is critically wounded, while many others were injured in West Bank and Gaza protests.

More than 140 people were killed in government and Russian air strikes across Syria within 24 hours, according to sources and monitors.

A UN rights expert warned Thursday of turmoil inMyanmar if next week’s landmark elections fall short of expectations for a credible vote.

A “significant increase” of air strikes on Syrian hospitals recently has killed at least 35 patients and medical staff and wounded 72, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday.

New knife attacks on Israelis in the West Bank left a soldier lightly injured Thursday, while two Palestinian assailants were shot dead by security forces, police and the army said.

Stressing that “Sunnis do not believe in mourning in Muharram month”, Mawlana Muhammad Hussein Gorgij asked school principals, jail authorities and barracks to not force Sunnis for participating in mourning ceremonies.

Two Palestinians were shot dead after allegedly stabbing and wounding an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.

The death toll from a powerful 7.7-Richter earthquake that hit several regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan has risen to 339.

Muslim religious officials in occupied East Jerusalem say Israeli police have blocked them from installing security cameras at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, despite a new agreement to place the surveillance equipment there.

A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake has struck in northern Afghanistan and has been felt in a large area from northern India to Pakistan with scores of people killed across the region.