The frequency of attacks on medical facilities in Syria spiked through the first two months of the year, far outpacing last year's rate, the World Health Organization said Friday.

A Palestinian man was killed in clashes on Friday with the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkish forces and allied rebels could enter the center of the Kurdish-held Syrian town of Afrin "at any moment", a day after the capture of another key strategic town.

The living conditions of civilians inside Syria are worse than ever, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said Friday, with the conflict set to enter its eighth year.

"The conditions faced by civilians inside Syria are worse than ever, with 69 percent languishing in extreme poverty," Grandi said during a visit to Lebanon.

A ceasefire resolution for Syria has failed to take hold as Syrian forces, backed by Russia, make gains in Eastern Ghouta. The question is arising: What is the United Nations doing?

The fight against the Islamic State group is now more focused on stabilizing captured areas and identifying returning foreign jihadis following the capture of Mosul and Raqqa, officials in the U.S.-led coalition fighting the network said Thursday.

A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia has rejected allegations over an air raid in Yemen's rebel-held capital Sanaa, which witnesses said left six members of the same family dead.

Neighbors told AFP the strike on the two-story house took place at around 9:00 pm local time on Wednesday.

Fresh shelling of Eastern Ghouta endangered a vital aid delivery on Friday, nearly three weeks into a blistering Syrian regime offensive that has seized more than half of the rebel enclave.

An aid convoy managed to deliver food to hunger-stricken Eastern Ghouta on Friday despite renewed bombardment by Syrian regime forces who have seized more than half of the besieged rebel enclave.

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested Thursday in Jerusalem against compulsory military service, clashing with security forces and paralyzing traffic by blocking a major road.