Saudi authorities said a stampede Thursday in Mecca has killed 220 pilgrims and injured 450 others.
The Egyptian security forces killed 19 militants on Monday during massive raids in the Western Desert and the restive Sinai peninsula, the Egyptian military spokesman said.
At least 17 militants were killed and 62 suspects arrested on Thursday as part of a massive operation launched by the Egyptian security forces in restive North Sinai province, a military official said.
Egyptian security forces on Monday mistakenly killed 12 people and injured 10 others in the country's western desert area of Al-Wahat, the state-run Al-Ahram news website reported.
At least 30 militants were killed and 41 suspects were arrested in a major anti-terrorism operation launched by the Egyptian security forces in North Sinai, military spokesman Mohamed Samir said in a statement Wednesday.
A total of 1,325 Iraqis were killed and 1,811 others injured in terrorist attacks and violence in August in Iraq, the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said in a statement on Tuesday.
At least 70 rebels were killed and 40 others wounded by Syrian airstrikes in Latakia Wednesday, amid ongoing military showdown near the area of Ghab Plains, the state-run SANA news agency and a monitor group reported.
Warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemeni Shiite Houthi rebels mistakenly hit a residential quarter in Yemen's city of Taiz overnight and killed 29 civilians, officials said on Friday, while indiscriminate clashes between Yemeni warring parties there killed 23 other civilians.
37 militants killed in latest Afghan military operations: official
53 killed in truck boming at Baghdad marketplace
At least 48 people were killed Tuesday in a blast which rocked a local market in Damboa district of Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, a security source and a witness said.
At least 166 people were killed, 128 injured and 1,087,025 others affected by heavy rains and flash floods in parts of Pakistan over last three weeks, officials from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said Thursday.
One of the organizers of Burundi' s protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza's third-term bid has been injured by two bullets from unknown gunmen, his relative said.
At least 32 people were killed and dozens of others were injured in a string of traffic accidents across Russia on Wednesday.
At least 74 people were killed and 375 others injured in traffic accidents across Turkey during the four-day long Eid al-Fitr holiday, private Dogan News Agency reported on Sunday.
Algerian army killed 16 armed militants affiliated to al-Qaida on Sunday, apparently in response to one of the deadliest militant attacks in months last week that claimed lives of at least nine Algerian soldiers, according to local media.
Four senior leaders of the militant group Al-Shabaab were killed early Thursday in a drone strike in Somalia's southern Juungal area, the Kenyan government has confirmed.
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