OUAGADOUGOU -- At least 44 civilians were killed on Thursday night in two terrorist attacks in northern Burkina Faso's Sahel Region, said a regional government official on Saturday.

In a statement, Lieutenant Colonel Rodolphe Sorgho, who is the governor of the Sahel Region, said that armed terrorist groups broke into the villages of Kourakou and Tondobi, located about five km from the commune of Seytenga in the province of Seno, killing 44 civilians and causing injuries and material damages. (Burkina Faso-Terrorism-Attack)

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AMMAN -- The Jordanian armed forces said in a statement on Saturday that a rocket exploded in the air over Jordanian territories near the border with Syria, and no injuries were reported.

The army said around 10:25 p.m. local time (GMT 1925) on Saturday, a rocket exploded in the air over Wadi Aqraba Valley in Irbid governorate, which led to its shrapnel falling on the ground in the same area. (Jordan-Syria-Missile)

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RAMALLAH -- A Palestinian was killed on Saturday during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the village of Azzoun, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya, Palestinian medics and eyewitnesses said.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a press release that A'ahead Isleem, 20, was shot in the chest and abdomen by Israeli soldiers and died later on the way to the hospital. No other injuries were reported, the statement added. (Israel-Deadly Clash-Palestinians)

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TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov discussed recent problems and misunderstandings in bilateral relations and ways to correct them during phone conversations.

According to the Iranian Foreign Ministry's website, the two ministers had "comprehensive, frank and explicit" conversations via two separate phone calls on Friday night and Saturday, during which they highlighted the necessity of mutual respect for good neighborliness and each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity. (Iran-Azerbaijan-FM Talks)

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CAIRO -- At least six people were killed and eight others wounded on Saturday as a microbus collided with a farming tractor in Egypt's Giza province adjacent to the capital Cairo, an Egyptian Health Ministry official said.

"The accident took place early in the morning as the microbus crashed into the tractor near an exit on Al-Kurimat Road in Giza," Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, spokesman of the Health Ministry, told Xinhua, noting the injured people were taken to a nearby hospital. (Egypt,Traffic Accident) Enditem

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