Top 5 - Sat, Aug, 01, 2015 - 16:00 GMT

Top 5 - Sat, August, 01, 2015 - 16:00 GMT

1. More Yemeni civilians fall victim to Saudi attacks. At least eight people are killed and over 20 injured as Saudi warplanes target a residential area in Lahij province.

2. Afghan Taliban’s new leader stresses the group will push ahead with insurgency. He's also urged the militants to remain united.

3. At least 25 foreign-backed militants have been reportedly killed in a failed attack on a makeshift army base outside Syria's northern city of Aleppo.

4. Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government calls on PKK militants to leave Iraq in order to prevent civilian casualties in Turkish airstrikes.

5. Palestinians hold a funeral for a teenager killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. He was shot dead in protests against the burning to death of a Palestinian toddler by settlers.


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