Libya's government has said it is willing to accept a truce in fighting around Tripoli for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha that starts Sunday but on four conditions.

The Israeli army troops shot dead four Palestinians on the Gaza border early Saturday, one of whom had managed to cross and throw a hand grenade at troops.

A huge earthquake hits northern Israel, killing thousands and knocking out infrastructure -- this doomsday scenario was the premise for a multi-national naval drill this week.

The U.N. said Friday that it will resume food deliveries in areas controlled by Yemen's Huthi rebels, starting in the capital Sanaa next week, after a two month pause. 

The United Nations has called on forces loyal to Libya's internationally recognised government and a rival administration to commit to a humanitarian truce by midnight on Friday.

Yemen's rebel Houthis say the Saudi-led coalition they've been battling since 2015 has killed the brother of their leader.

The announcement by the rebel-run Interior Ministry in the capital, Sanaa, was posted on Friday on the rebel Almasirah website.

Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed announced Thursday he would stand in presidential elections next month.

Renewed fighting in northwest Syria after a brief ceasefire has triggered "total panic," a top U.N. official said Thursday, warning that a possible government offensive in the area was "like playing with fire". 

A top Syrian Kurdish official gave a guarded welcome Thursday to a U.S.-Turkish agreement to establish a joint operations center for the north but said the details remained unclear.

An off-duty Israeli soldier was found dead with stab wounds near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a "terrorist" attack, sparking a manhunt.