Eight Yemeni troops and six militants were killed on July 6 in an assault claimed by Al Qaeda on a military base near the international airport of Yemen's southern city of Aden.

Some 4,500 migrants were rescued from rubber dinghies and a wooden boat in the Mediterranean on July 5, Italy's coast guard said, as the sea calmed after a rough weekend.

The king of Saudi Arabia warned his country would strike with an "iron hand" against people who preyed on youth vulnerable to religious extremism, a day after suicide bombers struck three cities in an apparently coordinated campaign of attacks.

Iraq's interior minister resigned on July 5 and said a deputy would take over his responsibilities, a few days after the deadliest of many car bombings in Baghdad since the 2003 US-led invasion.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon sharply criticized a decision by Israel to advance plans to build hundreds of units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem just days after world powers called on Israel to stop its settlement policy, his spokesman said on July 5.

Suicide bombers struck three cities across Saudi Arabia on July 4, killing at least four security officers in an apparently coordinated campaign of attacks as Saudis prepared to break their fast on the penultimate day of the holy month of Ramadan.

The future status of European Union nationals living in Britain will have to be worked out as part of Brexit negotiations and will be for the next prime minister to decide, Prime Minister David Cameron's spokeswoman said on July 4.

Turkish aid shipments arrived in the Gaza Strip via Israel on July 4, a week after Israel and Turkey announced they would end a six-year rupture and normalize ties.

The international military mission in Afghanistan will fail if troop levels are reduced further, with potentially dangerous repercussions for the rest of the world, a delegation of US lawmakers warned during a visit to Kabul on July 4.

A search vessel contracted by the Egyptian government has recovered all mapped human remains under water at the crash site of EgyptAir flight MS804 in the Mediterranean, Egypt's aircraft accident investigation committee said on July 3.