In the statement made by the United Nations Refugee council, due to ongoing ethnic conflict in the Central African Republic capital city of Bangui, 474 Peuhl Muslims have become stranded for months in Yaloke, 200km away from the capital.

At least four Syrian school children were killed and 10 wounded on Monday when a regime air strike hit their bus in the northwest of the country, a monitor said.

Germany has condemned Pakistan’s decision to execute 500 militans in the coming weeks.

Two New York police officers have been shot dead by a gunman who then killed himself, officials said. The officers were killed without warning on Saturday as they sat in their patrol car in Brooklyn, Police Commissioner William Bratton told a news conference, flanked by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Pakistan has hanged two convicted men in the first executions since 2008, officials said, after the government ended a moratorium on the death penalty in the wake of a Taliban school massacre that killed 149 people.

It will take at least three years for the U.S.-led coalition to reach a turning point against ISIL members in Iraq and Syria, the general in charge of the combined task force said Thursday.

A Palestinian has been killed overnight during an Israeli military operation in the Qalandiya refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank, medical and security sources say.

The Islamic militant group Hamas staged a show of strength to mark its 27th anniversary Sunday, with a military parade through Gaza including a flyover by a drone.

Aiming to protect worshippers form the scorching sun, hundreds of sunshades will be installed in the courtyards of Al-Masjid al-Haram in the holy city of Makkah, as part of the new extensions provided at Islam’s holiest shrine.

Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have mounted two suicide car-bomb attacks aimed at security checkpoints at the main entrance into Haditha city.