Saudi-led coalition air strikes on rebel-held security buildings in western Yemen have killed at least 60 people, many of them inmates buried under the rubble of their detention center.

A car ramming in the occupied West Bank on Sunday lightly wounded three Israeli police officers, and the Palestinian attacker was shot dead, Israeli police said.

At least 22 people were killed and 72 injured in flooding caused by torrential rains in Egypt, authorities said on Sunday, updating an earlier toll of 18 dead.

Four Egyptian soldiers have been killed in the Sinai Peninsula, where the local branch of the Islamic State group regularly attacks security forces, the army said on Sunday.

A prominent anti-corruption activist was one of four people killed in an explosion in Libya's second city of Benghazi, in the east of the strife-torn country, officials said Sunday.

Syria's regime and rebels were locked in fierce fighting Sunday on Aleppo's western edges, where 41 civilians have been killed in an opposition offensive to break a devastating government siege.

U.N. peace envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura on Sunday strongly condemned deadly rocket attacks by rebels targeting civilian areas in western Aleppo.

Syrian state media said Sunday that rebels had fired shells containing toxic gas into government-held parts of Aleppo, leaving dozens of people including civilians in need of treatment.

Authorities in Dubai have detained Iraqi lawmaker Mohamed al-Tai after a complaint was issued against him over a check, the public prosecutor announced late Saturday.

Iraqi paramilitary forces said they had captured several villages southwest of Mosul from the Islamic State group on Sunday, the second day of an operation to cut the jihadists' supply lines.
