Israel announced on Wednesday it had tightened restrictions on Palestinian fishing off the blockaded Gaza Strip after more balloons fitted with firebombs were floated from the enclave into its territory.

The Iranian Defense Ministry in a statement has once again reiterated its support to the Palestinians’ resistance against the Israeli regime, saying that resistance will not wane until it annihilates all the occupiers.

Pope Francis has denounced as “cruel” the US administration’s policy of building border walls and separating migrant families.

An estimated 690 million children are being robbed of their childhood today due to conflict, early marriage and exclusion from education among other factors, even as progress was made over the last two decades, according to an international aid group.

Several Palestinian American community organisations have denounced a planned United States-led "workshop" to encourage investments in the occupied Palestinian territories as "treason".

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement lambasted as an “obvious crime” the tight siege that has been placed on the Yemeni city of al-Durayhimi by the Saudi-led military coalition and its ally, the militia loyal to former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

The United Nations children's agency says attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled in 2018, compared to the year before.

A French rights group sought to block the loading of what it said were munitions onto a Saudi Arabian ship docked in southern France, as an investigative website reported that the load was "howitzer munitions".

The same units of the Myanmar military that in 2017 were implicated in a brutal crackdown that drove hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim Rohingya from the country are again committing war crimes as they step up their campaign against ethnic Rakhine rebels, Amnesty International has said.

Three imprisoned Saudi scholars who have been sentenced to death and are reportedly due to be executed shortly after the holy month of Ramadan are being tortured for their opposition to normalization of ties with Israel.