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Hamas has confirmed that its leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, was killed early this morning during an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. Reports indicate that the attack also resulted in the deaths of his wife and two children, as their home in a Palestinian refugee camp in the city of Tyre was struck.

European Union foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting Monday night to address rising tensions in the Middle East following Israel's airstrikes on Lebanon over the weekend and the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

"Unfortunately (...) the negative tints regarding Pakistan are exaggerated, which has the unpleasant consequence of creating some reservations at the level of the Romanian business community in connection with the security of some possible businesses or cooperation projects with Pakistani companies," Ambassador of Romania in Islamabad Niculaie Goia said in an interview with AGERPRES, underscori

Egypt has hanged four men convicted by a military court of killing three military students in a bombing in 2014, security sources said on Tuesday.

Several dozen Syrian extremists linked to both al-Nusra Front and ISIS, who committed "numerous massacres" of civilians and captives, have sought asylum in Germany, Der Spiegel reports.

A cease-fire deal has been reached that will see jihadist fighters withdraw from the Syria-Lebanon border, a top Lebanese official said July 27 after a week-long operation there by the Hezbollah movement.

An air strike killed eight civilians late on July 24 in a rebel-held region near Damascus where a truce was declared at the weekend, medics and a monitoring group said.

The strike hit the town of Arbin in the Eastern Ghouta rebel enclave at around 11:30 p.m. local time, residents said.

Four Arab states boycotting Qatar over alleged support for terrorism have sent Doha a list of 13 demands including closing of a Turkish military base in Qatar and reducing ties to their regional adversary Iran, an official of one of the four countries said.

Turkey was offered the opportunity to establish a cease-fire observation mission in the opposition-held Syrian province of Idlib during a meeting last month in Astana in which Ankara, Moscow and Tehran agreed to declare de-conflict zones in regions controlled by the opposition groups, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak told the Hürriyet Daily News on May 12.

A week of infighting killed nearly 169 people in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside Syria's capital Damascus before calm returned on May 5, a monitor said.

The clashes erupted on April 28 between the powerful Army of Islam faction and the former al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front, along with ally Faylaq al-Rahman.