Topic: Al Jazeera

A suspected Islamist attack on a prison in Nigeria has freed hundreds of inmates, including militants, government officials said.

Israeli forces are "likely responsible" for the death of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, though an examination of the bullet that killed her was "inconclusive," the U.S. State Department said Monday.

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in southern Iran followed by aftershocks in the early hours of Saturday killed at least five people, injured dozens others and destroyed homes in several villages.

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said Friday that journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by shots fired by Israeli Security Forces and not by indiscriminate Palestinian fire.

Clashes erupted in Jerusalem on Sunday as around 70,000 far-right Jewish nationalists conducted a Flag March to commemorate a national holiday marking the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City.

Two Iranian miliary pilots were killed on Tuesday when their Chinese-made fighter jet crashed during a training exercise, officials said.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said a 17-year-old Palestinian was killed and an 18-year-old injured by Israeli gunfire during a military raid near a West Bank refugee camp.

Police officers in Israel were filmed beating pallbearers carrying the coffin for slain Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral Friday, causing them to nearly drop her body.

Thousands gathered Thursday in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah to attend the official state service for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

A Palestinian American journalist covering an Israeli raid on a Palestinian refugee camp was killed by gunfire Wednesday, local officials announced.