The Israeli airforce launched three raids on targets in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Tuesday morning, hitting two “rocket launching sites used by militants” and a weapons storage facility, the military said in a statement.

A Muslim religious leader is to be freed on bail after he won an appeal in Britain against his deportation to Jordan, where he faces convictions over terrorist offences related to two alleged bomb plots.

The head of the BBC has resigned, just two months into the job, after the state-funded British broadcaster put out a programme denounced by its own chairman as shoddy journalism.

Israeli tank shells have killed at least five Palestinians and wounded 30 in the Gaza Strip after an apparent attack on an Israeli army patrol in the border area, Palestinian medics and local witnesses said.

The new leader of Syrian National opposition Council, George Sabra, calls on the international community to take serious steps to help the Syrian rebels to oust the Bashar al-Assad regime

In a shift from decades of support for the horn of Africa country, a US government panel has condemned Ethiopia’s massive crackdown on peaceful Muslim protests, accusing Addis Ababa of tightening its grip the country’s Muslim population.

David Petraeus, the retired four-star general renowned for taking charge of the military campaigns in Iraq and then Afghanistan, has abruptly resigned as director of the CIA, admitting to an extramarital affair.

Syria’s fractious opposition, under pressure from the United States and Qatar to unite, looked likely on Friday to agree to form an inclusive new opposition body that would serve as a unity government if Bashar al-Assad falls.

Thousands of radical Islamists demonstrated in Cairo on Friday to demand that sharia, or Islamic law, be the basis for legislation in a new constitution being drafted for Egypt.

A train transporting petrol to northwestern Myanmar has overturned and caught fire, killing 25 people and injuring 62, state media reports say.