Saudi officials have jailed the wife and daughter of imprisoned dissident Abdul-Karim al-Nimr.

Saudi security forces re-arrest a distinguished Shia scholar in the country’s oil-rich Eastern Province, as the Riyadh regime is stringently enforcing its crackdown on members of the religious community.

Israeli forces have detained nearly 20 Palestinians in a wide-scale arrest campaign in several areas across the occupied West Bank and al-Quds.

Russia has detained eight suspects over a huge blast that recently targeted a bridge connecting the Russian mainland to the Crimean Peninsula.

A Palestinian child from the central part of the occupied West Bank has fallen from a high place and died during an Israeli police chase.

Iran is witnessing protests over the death of a 22-year-old woman who died in hospital days after she was arrested by police.

Israeli military forces have shot dead a young Palestinian man during a raid on the al-Far'a refugee camp in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.