The Israeli military says it has demolished the home of a Palestinian convicted of being an accomplice to a deadly attack on Israelis last year.

The home in the West Bank city of Nablus was demolished early Tuesday. Amjad Elewi is serving two life sentences for assisting in the "planning and execution" of a shooting attack that killed two Israelis who were driving their car in the West Bank.

When Egypt's parliament passed a hard-fought civil service law last week, it was seen as a rare outbreak of resistance to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

The final, amended draft made it harder to fire members of the country's bloated bureaucracy, which Sisi has suggested should be trimmed down.

The Islamic State group said Monday that a senior operative considered the group's information minister had been killed, confirming an earlier Pentagon report.

The United Nations on Monday called for swift action to bring to justice the perpetrators of air strikes on a funeral ceremony in the Yemeni capital that killed more than 140 people.

Israel has welcomed a group of 64 Ethiopian migrants, the first group of a new wave of 9,000 to arrive over the next five years, an official said Monday.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday again asked the Security Council to formally request that the International Criminal Court (ICC) begin investigations of war crimes in Syria.

Such a request was blocked in 2014 by Russia and China, which have veto powers, but Ban said the council should try again.

Syria's main opposition group called Monday for foreign allies to supply rebel forces with ground-to-air weapons to counter deadly air raids in Aleppo.

An air strike that killed at least 140 people at a funeral in Yemen has further hardened rebel opposition and lessened chances of a peaceful end to the country's war, analysts say.

Three pro-government fighters have been killed "by mistake" in Yemen in an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition supporting them against rebels, loyalist military sources said Monday.

Iraq's top court on Monday overturned Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's decision to abolish the vice presidency, declaring it unconstitutional in a blow to the premier's problem-plagued reform efforts.