GAZA The number of Palestinians killed when Israeli forces shelled southern Gaza on Friday has risen to 50, the Gaza health ministry said.
Medhat Abbas, director of the Ministry of Health, said: "Over 50 were killed and 220 wounded in Rafah."
(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Giles Elgood)
TRIPOLI Libyan forces renewed their push to oust Islamic State from its former North African stronghold of Sirte on Sunday, saying they had seized the city's main mosque and a jail run by the militants' morality police.
DOHA A newly-formed governing council in Yemen could work with Russia to "fight terrorism" by allowing Moscow use of the war-torn country's military bases, Yemen's former president said on Sunday.
MOGADISHU More than 20 people were killed on Sunday when suicide bombers from the militant al Shabaab group detonated two car bombs at a local government headquarters in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region, witnesses and officials said.