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The Syrian military has unilaterally declared a 72-hour truce covering the whole country, state media report.
A statement by the general command said the “regime of calm” began at 01:00 on Wednesday (22:00 GMT on Tuesday) and would last until midnight on Friday.
China should prepare itself for military confrontation in the South China Sea, an influential Chinese paper said on Tuesday, a week ahead of a decision by an international court on a dispute there between China and the Philippines.
Tensions have been rising ahead of a July 12 ruling by an arbitration court hearing the argument between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea in the Dutch city of The Hague.
At least 10 people were killed and over 25 others injured in armed clashes between rebel factions in Bambari in the east of the Central African Republic.
“At least 10 people were killed and there were more than 25 wounded in clashes that erupted on Monday in Bambari,” an officer of the gendarmerie told AFP on Tuesday.
Bombings rocked three cities across Saudi Arabia on Monday, including near the Prophet’s Mosque in the holy city of Medina, raising the specter of increasingly coordinated attacks by militants seeking to destabilize the monarchy.
A suicide bomber struck near the United States Consulate in the coastal city of Jidda in the morning, wounding two security officers. Then, near dusk, when Muslims were ending their daily Ramadan fasts, other blasts struck near a Shiite mosque in the country’s east and at a security post in Medina, killing four guards, according to the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television network.
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) say they have launched new attacks on major oil and gas installations in the Delta region.
The oil facilities, they said, belonged to Chevron, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).