Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, Jan. 6

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JERUSALEM -- An Israeli bus driver was wounded overnight between Saturday and Sunday in a shooting attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the military said on Sunday.

The incident took place outside the settlement of Beit El, north of Ramallah. (Israel-Bus)

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TEHRAN -- At least 75 people were injured in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that shook Gilangharb city in Kermanshah province in the west of Iran on Sunday, Pir Hossein Kolivand, head of Iran Emergency Organization, was quoted as saying by Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA).

Most of the injured people were hurt while escaping to the outdoors in panic, a medical official told Tasnim news agency. (Iran-Earthquake-Gilangharb)

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BAGHDAD -- The Islamic State (IS) militants Sunday abducted five villagers from their homes near the city of Tikrit, the capital of Iraq's central province of Salahudin, a provincial police source said.

The incident took place in the evening when 20 IS militants broke into the village of Tal-Gseiba in east of Tikrit, located some 170 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Col. Mohammed Khalil al-Bazi from Salahudin's provincial police command told Xinhua. (Iraq-IS)

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DAMASCUS -- The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) advanced on Sunday and besieged the Islamic State (IS) in the last two towns in the eastern Euphrates River region in eastern Syria, a war monitor reported.

The IS militants are now besieged in the towns of Souseh and Baghous as the SDF fighters have managed to capture large areas in the last IS-held pocket in the eastern Euphrates region in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour. (Syria-IS-Kurdish Militias) Enditem

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