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Three Palestinian men convicted of killing senior Hamas official Mazen Fuqaha’a were executed on Thursday in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said.

*President Bashar Assad of Syria Russia, Turkey and Iran on Thursday signed a memorandum on creating safe zones in Syria, while the delegation of the armed Syrian opposition walked out and shouted angrily after a new round of peace talks held in the Kazakh capital Astana.

*Federal High Court, Lagos (Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Wednesday sentenced an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Yisa Olarenwaju, charged with obtaining proceeds of unlawful act.

United States forces fighting extremist militia in Syria did not take necessary precautions to avoid civilian casualties when it hit a mosque in Syria’s western Aleppo region in March, Human Rights Watch, HRW, said Tuesday.

A man breathes through an oxygen mask as another man receives treatment following a suspected gas The Syrian government's suspected chemical weapons attack on civilians last week amounts to a "war crime," the United States State Department said Thursday.

A man breathes through an oxygen mask as another man receives treatment following a suspected gas The Syrian army on Thursday said the United States led anti-terror coalition struck a chemical weapons depot controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group in eastern Syria, killing hundreds, including civilians.

(Nigeria) Rebels and pro-government forces swapped prisoners and detainees on Wednesday as part of a major evacuation deal reached under the mediation of Qatar and Iran, well-informed sources said.

*Mr Vladimir Putin, Russian President Moscow will request the United Nations to conduct an investigation into the April 4 chemical weapons incident in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

(Nigeria) Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has commended the government and people of Turkey for their support towards the restoration of Biafra.

The United States stepped up pressure Sunday on Russia to rein in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, warning that any further chemical attacks would be "very damaging" to their relationship and suggesting there can be no peace in Syria while Assad remains in power.

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned U.S. cruise missile strikes on Syria on Friday, warning the move would further damage already battered U.S.-Russia relations which Moscow had hoped President Donald Trump would revive. U.S. officials said they had informed Russian forces ahead of the strikes, intended to punish the Syrian government for what they say was a chemical weapons attack on Wednesday, and had avoided hitting Russian personnel. Satellite imagery suggests the Shayrat air base that was struck in western Syria is home to Russian special forces and military helicopters, part of the Kremlin’s effort to help the Syrian government fight Islamic State and other militant groups. Russia’s main air base and a naval facility were not hit. Moscow had been hoping to cooperate with Trump to jointly fight Islamic State in Syria, a move it was banking on to boost U.S.-Russia ties which are at a post-Cold War low. After the U.S. strikes, that task now looks harder. “President Puti

Nine civilians including four children were killed in the United States missile attack on a Syrian airbase near the city of Homs on Friday, the Syrian state news agency said. The SANA report said the civilians died in villages near the airbase. It said seven more people had been wounded and homes in the area had been badly damaged. Earlier, Homs governor Talal Barazi said seven people had been killed in the attack. It was not immediately clear if these were separate casualty tolls. U.S. President Donald Trump said he had ordered missile strikes against the airfield from which a deadly chemical attack was launched, declaring he acted in America’s “national security interest” against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The strikes drew sharp criticism from Russia, Assad’s ally. U.S. officials said the military fired dozens of cruise missiles against the base in response to the suspected gas attack in a rebel-held area this week, which Washington has blamed on Assad’s forces. The Sy

*Coalition airstrikes on Mosul, Iraq Amnesty International on Tuesday accused the United States-led coalition in Iraq of conducting airstrikes in areas of Mosul where it should have known civilian families were trying to keep safe in their homes.

*Syrian opposition fighters Syrian opposition on Thursday demanded direct talks with government in the new round of UN-brokered peace negotiations.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights group said on Wednesday said no fewer than 33 people were killed in an air strike that hit a school sheltering displaced people near the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa.

*Majid Takht-Ravanchi Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, said that Iran will counter the United States visa ban against the Iranians, Tehran Times daily reported on Wednesday.

*Hamza bin Laden The United States on Thursday designated Hamza bin Laden, son of late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, as terrorist, the State Department said in a statement.

(Nigeria) A Lebanese, Wessam Mansour, was on Thursday arraigned in an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly obtaining goods worth N9.5 million under false pretence.

Some 47 children who had been trapped in an orphanage were among 5,000 people bussed out of eastern Aleppo as the evacuation of the rebel enclave gathered pace on Monday.

Syria’s state News Agency SANA on Sunday reported that Syrian government buses entered the last opposition enclave in eastern Aleppo to restart the evacuation of rebel fighters and civilians.