Iraqi special forces battling the Islamic State group push deeper into west Mosul, where a commander said jihadist resistance is showing signs of weakening under repeated assaults.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan announce the "normalisation" of ties between the two countries, damaged by Ankara downing one of Moscow's warplanes in 2015.
Captivated by the idea of fighting jihadists, or dedicated to starting a "revolution," foreigners have diverse reasons for joining the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria.
Israeli police resumed the eviction of hardline residents of a wildcat outpost on Thursday, a day after the Jewish settlers clashed with police following the government's green light for 3,000 new homes in other West Bank settlements. IMAGES of the evacuation resuming
Dozens of hardline Jewish settlers barricaded themselves inside a synagogue in a wildcat outpost in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, refusing to leave on the second day of a police operation to evict residents. IMAGES of Israeli forces entering the synagogue
As the Syrian government and opposition members prepare to meet in Astana for peace talks, some residents of Idlib say they have little hope that a solution will be found to end the conflict.
A group of Palestinians and Hamas officials gathered in Gaza to call on US President-elect Donald Trump not to carry out his pledge to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with one Hamas official saying it would turn the US into an "enemy of the Palestinians and the Arab and Muslim world."
Outgoing US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine to support the war-scarred country's leaders amid concerns that ties could chill under Donald Trump.
