A fresh spate of rockets targeted an Iraqi base north of Baghdad on Saturday where foreign troops are deployed, Iraqi and US security sources told AFP, in a rare daytime attack.

Saudi Arabia said Saturday it would suspend international flights for two weeks in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Iran on Friday warned US President Donald Trump against taking "dangerous actions" after American forces launched air strikes on neighbouring Iraq.

At the heart of Syria's latest humanitarian crisis, locals call Idlib "the forgotten city", still paying the price for one day in the 1970s when the former president was pelted with tomatoes.

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper warned Thursday that "all options are on the table" after three U.S.-led coalition members, including two American soldiers, were killed in a rocket attack in Iraq.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called for the "immediate" formation of a national unity government to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, and ordered schools closed. 

After nine years of chronicling war crimes and horrendous suffering in Syria, U.N. investigators voice frustration and sadness, but also determination to continue documenting violations and hope that one day justice will be served.

Iraqi and United Nations officials scrambled Thursday to contain the fallout from an unprecedented rocket attack that killed three US-led coalition members and threatened yet another escalation of Iran-US tensions.

An air strike killed 26 fighters of Iraqi paramilitary group Hashed al-Shaabi in eastern Syria after a deadly attack on US-led coalition troops in Iraq, a war monitor said Thursday.

Updating its toll for the Wednesday strike, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was probably carried out by the coalition.

As it enters its tenth year, the war in Syria is anything but abating, as foreign powers scrap over a ravaged country where human suffering keeps reaching new levels.