A suicide bombing in Yemen’s southern city of Ibb has killed at least 33 people, medical sources say.

The UN Security Council has rejected a Palestinian resolution calling for peace with Israel within a year and an end to Israel’s occupation by 2017.

Five men held for a dozen years without charge at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent to the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan for resettlement.

An AirAsia flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control after take-off, the airline has said, as search and rescue operations get under way.

A senior Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt has been sentenced to six years in prison for insulting a panel of judges.

At least 45 civilians were killed and some 175 wounded when aircraft bombed a northern Syrian city controlled by ISIL, as Bashar al-Assad’s government stepped up air raids, residents and a monitoring group said on Friday.

A Kurdish scholar named Molla Hussein was killed in an armed attack in the Kurdish city of Tuz Khormato in Iraq.

Afghanistan’s NATO-led foreign force killed three civilians in an air strike, Afghan officials said on Saturday, less than a week before most foreign troops are due to pull out at the end of a 13-year mission.

Jordan’s military has confirmed that one of its pilots was captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group after his plane went down in Syria, official news agency Petra said.

Pakistan has announced plans to set up special military-run courts to prosecute terrorism suspects as part of a new anti-terrorism plan following the Taliban school massacre that killed 149 people, including 132 children.