An airstrike has hit a maternity hospital in northern Syria supported by Save the Children, the charity has said. Two people were killed in the attack, and several others injured including a woman who was six months pregnant who lost her leg. Several babies were also hurt when their incubators crashed to the floor in the attack.

French warplanes affiliated to the coalition forces committed on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 in the Greater Toukhan village north of Manbij city in Syria, an appalling massacre resulting in the death of more than 200 civilians, mostly children, women and elderly, including entire families, and wounding dozens others.

ANTARA reported the recurring incident of abductions of Indonesian tugboat crewmen. This time, an armed group abducted three Indonesian tugboat crewmen in the State of Sabah, east Malaysia,the part of the Sulu Sea.

(Reuters) - Egyptian security agents have abducted and tortured "at least several hundred people", some as young as 14, in an unprecedented spike in enforced disappearances aimed at silencing opponents, Amnesty International asserted in a report published on Wednesday.