Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian autocrat toppled during the 2011 Arab Spring, left a military hospital on Friday where he spent much of the last six years in detention.

Israel and the United States concluded talks in Washington on advancing peace with the Palestinians, without agreeing on one of the thorniest issues -- Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories. 

The US delegation, led by President Donald Trump's special representative Jason Greenblatt, reiterated the president's "concerns regarding settlement activity," a joint statement read of the four-day talks, which ended late Thursday.

A Saudi soldier was killed by a missile fired by rebels in Yemen that struck a military base near the border, the interior ministry said Friday.  

The missile was launched late Thursday from a rebel-controlled area in Yemen and hit a base in Dhahran South, killing border guard Atallah Yassine Al-Anzi, according to a statement carried by Saudi Arabia's official news agency. 

The international coalition battling the Islamic State group will begin a final push on the jihadists' Syrian stronghold Raqa in the coming days, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Friday.

But on the ground, the U.S.-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance spearheading the fight for the jihadist group's de facto Syrian capital expressed caution about how soon the battle for Raqa would begin.

One person was killed and three others wounded in an attack apparently targeting a Yemeni official's car on Thursday, a security source said. 

Dubai's Emirates airline on Thursday announced it will provide a free packing-and-handling service for passengers on flights hit by a U.S. ban on electronic devices larger than a standard smartphone.

Bahraini authorities on Thursday released award-winning photographer Mohammed al-Shaikh after holding him for more than 24 hours over his work for AFP, according to his family.

A Jewish youth was arrested in Israel on Thursday on suspicion of making dozens of anti-Semitic threats in countries around the world, police said.

An Egyptian court ordered on Thursday a renewed corruption probe into ousted president Hosni Mubarak, who has been cleared for release after almost six years in detention, judicial officials said.

An Israeli policeman caught on video beating up a Palestinian truck driver in east Jerusalem on Thursday was suspended from his post, police said.