Hezbollah urges countries around the world to rush to send rescue workers, equipment and aid to help victims of the earthquake in Syria.

A Yemeni health official says nearly 3,000 civilians, including African refugees, have lost their lives or sustained injuries as a result of Saudi strikes on border regions in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada.

The United Nations says landmines and other unexploded ordnance have caused some 159 casualties in a rebel-held city in Yemen in the past six months.

Syria's air defenses confront Israeli missile barrages targeting some areas in the central and western coastal regions of the war-ravaged country, killing four soldiers and injuring another.

Syrian air defenses for the second time this week intercepted Israeli missiles aimed at targets south of the capital Damascus.

A Yemeni official says the Saudi-led military coalition has dropped more than 3 million cluster bombs on Yemen since 2015.

A Chinese passenger plane carrying 132 people crashes in a mountainous region of southern Guangxi province, with casualties still unknown.