US ambassador Tom Barrack announced a ceasefire between Syria and Israel, supported by the US and embraced by Turkiye, Jordan, and Syria's neighbors, aimed at ending recent sectarian violence.
Deaths were reported following fighting between tribes in Kurram, near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. Previously, officials there reported a land dispute between Shiite and Sunni Muslim groups. Clashes between rival tribes killed at least 11 people in the Kurram district in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said on Saturday. At least eight people were injured in the incident.
On September 12, Taliban authorities confirmed that civilians were shot dead in an attack in central Afghanistan, indicating a grim escalation of violence in the region.