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At least two people have been killed and three others wounded after an airstrike hit a maternity hospital supported by Save the Children is north-western Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitor, said airstrikes hit the hospital and also a civil defence building.
Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive video of the former leader of al-Nusra Front confirming the Syria-based armed group’s split from al-Qaeda.
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani appeared in camera for the first time to announce his group’s name has also changed to Jabhat Fath al Sham, or The Front for Liberation of al Sham.
In Syria, 44 people have been killed and over 100 injured in two bomb blasts in Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishli.
Saudi jets launched air strikes on Tuesday against Houthi militiamen close to the kingdom’s southern border with Yemen, after a series of deadly incursions the previous day.
Al Arabiya reported that “tens of Houthi” fighters were killed in the aerial attacks.
At least 14 people were killed on Sunday and 23 others wounded in a suicide attack carried out in the Shiite-majority city of al-Kazemiya, north of Baghdad, a source from the Iraqi police told EFE.