Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has released a video accusing the media and left-wing opponents of pressuring the attorney general to indict him, ahead of April polls. 

An explosion killed five demining specialists in war-torn Yemen's central province of Maarib on Sunday, security and medical sources said.

In an alley in Jerusalem's Old City, a three-story building has become a symbol of Palestinian fears they are losing precious ground in the historic area.

Iraqi premier Adel Abdel Mahdi visited Basra Sunday, his first trip as prime minister to the southern province where lagging services spawned a water crisis and deadly protests last summer.

A bomb blast in a bus killed three civilians Sunday in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on the first anniversary of a Turkish attack on the Kurdish-majority region, a war monitor said.

Israel's military said its air defense systems intercepted a rocket fired from Syria on Sunday, after Damascus accused Israel of carrying out air raids.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen on the side of the government said Sunday it had "destroyed" rebel targets, including drone facilities, in Sanaa.

Israel and Chad have renewed diplomatic ties decades after they were ruptured, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday during a visit to the African state.

A "huge explosion" near a military intelligence office in Damascus Sunday left a number of dead and wounded, a war monitor said, after state TV reported early indications suggested a "terrorist act."

A key US senator on Saturday said the Saudi crown prince was responsible for Jamal Khashoggi's murder and must be "dealt with", as he threatened new sanctions.