Turkish media reports say two Turkish soldiers reported missing during a battle with Islamic State militants in northern Syria have died.

The state-run Anadolu Agency says funerals for the two soldiers will be held Tuesday in their hometowns.

Iran said Tuesday it had finally received an official invitation from Saudi Arabia for its pilgrims to attend this year's hajj, two weeks after Riyadh announced it.

There was no official Iranian delegation at last year's pilgrimage to the Muslim holy places after Sunni Saudi Arabia severed relations with Shiite Iran following the torching of its missions in Tehran and Mashhad by protesters last January.

Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank shot dead a Palestinian who attacked them with a knife during an overnight operation to arrest suspected militants, the army said on Tuesday.

A Palestinian official in the refugee camp where the incident occurred said the man tried to prevent the soldiers from entering his home when he was shot.

Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti announced Monday the reopening of his country's embassy in the Libyan capital, which closed in 2015 along with all other Western embassies due to violence.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has written to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump urging him not to move the American embassy to Jerusalem, official Palestinian media said on Monday.

The U.N.'s agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday appealed for emergency funds to provide aid to nearly half a million Palestinians affected by the war in Syria.

Iraqi forces will retake east Mosul from the jihadists within days, a top commander said Monday, after his fighters in the city reached the Tigris River for the first time.

An Israeli military court sentenced a Palestinian Monday to two life terms for shooting dead Israeli hiker Danny Gonen in the occupied West Bank 19 months ago, the army said.

A small white drone hummed into sight and Thaker, a member of Iraq's special forces, grabbed his machinegun and started lighting up the blue sky above eastern Mosul.

Commandos from the US-led coalition battling the Islamic State group have raided a village held by the jihadists in eastern Syria, a monitor and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said Monday.

US Central Command told AFP that "an operation was conducted in that area", but declined to give further details.