At least 12 people have been killed in the attack by al-Shabaab Takfiri militant group on a hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

Tehran says the regime in Tel Aviv is the main source of insatiability and is chiefly responsible for the growth of terrorism in the region.

Burkina Faso's army has ordered civilians to evacuate two large "military interest zones" ahead of a series of planned operations against militants and the armed combatants operating across the West African nation.

The Yemeni prime minister says Saudi Arabia and the UAE are exploiting the Arab country’s strategic islands and coasts in order to serve the interests of Israel, the United States and Britain.

Syrian and Russian fighter jets have carried out joint air force patrols the Arab country’s borders and over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Damascus rejects Turkey’s call to establish a so-called safe zone in the occupied northern part of Syria as an “aggressive, colonial act.”

The Russian military says Syrian air defense units have destroyed 16 of 22 Israeli missiles targeting the Arab country’s western-central province of Hama with Russian-made surface-to-air missile systems.