Chad's President Idriss Deby has been killed while visiting troops on the front line after three decades in power.

Yemeni armed forces further advance in Ma’rib as Saudi-led forces use refugees as human shields to slow their progress.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounces the Egyptian military’s ongoing demolitions and forced evictions in the restive North Sinai region, saying the practices constitute “violations of international humanitarian law” and likely amount to “war crimes.”

The Russian Defense Ministry says militants in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib are planning to stage a chemical attack there and blame it on the Syrian government.

Turkish-backed militants deprive several villages in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah of electricity for more than a month.

Taliban militants in Afghanistan kill at least 10 pro-government militia members in the country’s restive northeastern province of Kunduz, local officials say.

UNICEF says more than half of Syria's children are missing out on education.

Security sources say at least 70 civilians have been killed in simultaneous attacks on two villages by suspected extremist militants in Niger, near the border zone with Mali.

Indian security forces kill three suspected militants during an exchange of gunfire in Srinagar, the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir.

At least three Russian soldiers are injured in an anti-tank missile attack in the de-escalation zone of Syria's northwestern province of Idlib.