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Tens of thousands of Palestinian children returned to United Nations-run schools on Wednesday after the summer holidays, though major U.S. cuts have thrown their funding into jeopardy beyond next month.

Israel on Wednesday renewed its threat to attack Iranian military targets in Syria, after Tehran and Damascus signed an accord on security cooperation.

Moroccan police have arrested 12 people over the alleged gang-rape of a teenage girl, a court official said, in a case that has sparked outrage in the North African kingdom.

Reem Dad, a 22-year-old from Saudi Arabia, is developing a platform for pilgrims and tourists to experience a virtual reality tour of Medina, one of Islam's holiest sites.

A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle in the town of Al-Qaim in western Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, five of them security personnel, police said.

More than 1,000 Saudi medical students ordered to leave Canada because of a diplomatic row have been granted an extension that would allow them to complete their training, Ottawa has confirmed.

An Israeli court has for the first time recognized as legal a settlement established on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, court officials said Tuesday.

U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen is not "unconditional," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday, as he defended America's ongoing role in the war.

An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced six defendants to death for a fatal attack on a police checkpoint northwest of Cairo in 2016, judicial officials said.

Iran's military attache to Damascus told Iranian media on Tuesday that the country's military advisers would remain in Syria under a defense agreement signed this week.
