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The governor of Yemen's Aden province Jaafar Mohammed Saad was killed on Dec. 6 when a suicide bomber rammed his car into the governor's convoy in the western part of Aden city, residents and a local official said.

Tashfeen Malik and her husband Syed Rizwan Farook. who gunned down people at a holiday party for a health center in San Bernardino, California, were affiliated with ISIS. They killed 14 of Farook’s co-workers and injured another 21 people, resulting in the belief that the killing spree was a work-related gripe.

In an online auction on Dec 11, rare 'Star Wars' items will go on sale. Bids are expected from across the globe when the three-hour auction goes liveLuke Skywalker doll for $18,000, a Darth Vader helmet or a cuddly Yoda for $100 are just some of the items "Star Wars" fans will dig deep to splash their cash on to get some of the rarest merchandise on the planet.

Female divorcees and widows in Saudi Arabia are set to get their own ID cards allowing them to act independently from men, local media reported on Dec. 3.

A coalition led by the United States conducted 12 strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq on Nov. 30, and hit the militant group with a single strike in Syria, according to a statement released on Dec. 1. 

The sole Syria strike was near al-Hawl, hitting a tactical unit, the statement from the Combined Joint Task Force said, according to Reuters.

ISIS killed and enslaved vast numbers of Yazidi people, a religious minority. Their brutal death at ISIS hands came to be known as the Sinjar Massacre. Thousands fled, whereas in the villages the older women were killed while thousands of younger women were raped and sold into slavery.

Russia and Iran jointly oppose "external attempts" to bring regime change in Syria, a Kremlin official said on Nov. 23 in Tehran after President Vladimir Putin met supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Mufti of Serbia Muhamed Jusufspahic has been appointed as Serbia's ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

This has been announced in the new edition of the Official Gazette.

Turkey has been hosting the world's biggest international summits in the last couple of days. Following the G-20 Summit in Antalya last weekend, now it's Istanbul's turn to host the Atlantic Council Summit, the globe's biggest energy summit.

Turkey has been hosting the world's biggest international summits in the last couple of days. Following the G-20 Summit in Antalya last weekend, now it's Istanbul's turn to host the Atlantic Council Summit, the globe's biggest energy summit.