Several attacks across Afghanistan have killed more than a dozen people, including 12 workers clearing land mines in the country’s south and seven Afghan soldiers in Kabul.

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters stormed a town in Iraq’s western Anbar province on Saturday, killing at least 19 policemen and trapping others inside their headquarters, in the latest attack in the desert region where it controls large amounts of territory, officials said.

Kabul’s police chief has resigned after the Afghan capital was hit by at least nine attacks in the last two weeks with foreign compounds, embassy vehicles and US troops among those targeted.

An Egyptian judge sentenced the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and 25 others on Sunday to three years in jail for insulting the court, a day after charges were dropped against ousted president Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters.

Arab League foreign ministers endorsed on Saturday a draft resolution setting a timeframe for the creation of a Palestinian state and said they would formally present it to the United Nations Security Council for a vote within days.

Syria’s foreign minister said U.S.-led air strikes had failed to weaken ISIL it in Syria and the group would not be tackled unless Turkey was forced to tighten border controls.

Taliban gunmen stormed a guest house for foreign aid workers in the Afghan capital on Saturday and fought inside former U.S. and British base Camp Bastion in the south, just a month after it was vacated.

Senior JUI-F leader Khalid Mehmood Soomro was shot dead in Sukkur on Saturday.The early morning attack took place when Soomro, who was the secretary general for the Sindh chapter of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl), was leaving a mosque attached to a madrassah in Sukkur after offering Fajr prayers.

Two army officers were killed and two soldiers injured in two separate attacks in Egypt on Friday as the country braces for rallies demanding an “Islamic revolution”.

      The United Nations has declared a state of emergency in the Gaza Strip after two days of heavy rain led to severe flooding.