Israel struck a number of positions of Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza after a "projectile" fired from the Palestinian enclave on Monday hit a border area, the Israeli army said.

One Palestinian was injured and taken to hospital, according to medical sources in Hamas-run Gaza.

The Islamic State group is "completely besieged" in its last major stronghold in Syria's Aleppo province, a monitor said Monday, as pro-regime forces piled pressure on the jihadists on several fronts.

IS fighters were cut off in Al-Bab after forces loyal to the government of President Bashar Assad severed a road into the northern town, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

The head of Western Sahara's Polisario Front has said "all options are open" in its independence struggle from Morocco, but called for talks after the kingdom rejoined the African Union.

A Saudi warship targeted by Yemeni rebel "suicide" boats returned to its home port in Jeddah on Sunday, Saudi Arabia's national news agency said.

Morocco will "never recognize" Western Sahara's independence despite rejoining the African Union after a decades-long dispute over the territory, Deputy Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said in published remarks Sunday.

More than 120 migrants including women and children were rescued by Libyan coastguards Sunday off the coast of Tripoli after their boat ran into trouble.

NATO has begun training Iraqi soldiers on how to neutralize bombs planted by the Islamic State jihadist group, the alliance said Sunday, expanding a program already in place in neighboring Jordan.

A bomb exploded on a main street near the Bahraini capital Sunday, causing no casualties in what the government described as a "terrorist" act. 

US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters announced on Saturday a new phase in their campaign for the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold of Raqa, but said they needed more weapons to win.

Yemeni tribesmen on Saturday killed 13 al-Qaida fighters who had slipped back into a southern town hours after pulling out in the face of street protests, a security official said.  

The jihadists had reemerged during the night and sought to take control of public buildings in the Abyan province town of Loder, the official said.