Hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated as Cyclone Hudhud pounds the eastern Indian coast, killing at least six.
Heavy fighting reported between Kurdish militias and ISIL advancing on the northern Syrian town of Kobane.
Shia rebels tell Al Jazeera they will remain in the capital despite signing a peace agreement saying they would leave.
Peshmerga forces backed by US-led coalition air power launch pre-dawn attacks on three fronts against ISIL.
Ashraf Ghani has been sworn in as Afghanistan's new president, replacing Hamid Karzai in the country's first democratic transfer of power.
The US-led coalition has targeted oil refineries in Syria during a third night of air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants.
Medics carrying out a vaccination programme in rebel-held northern Syria accidentally administered a muscle relaxant to up to 75 children, killing 15 of them, the opposition says.
The CIA says the Islamic State (IS) militant group may have up to 31,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria - three times as many as previously feared.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has landed in Baghdad in Iraq at the start of a Middle East tour to build support for action against Islamic State.
Police in Yemen have shot at anti-government Shia protesters in the capital, Sanaa, killing at least one person, witnesses say.
Armed group Ansar al-Sharia and fighters loyal to former army general Khalifa Haftar clash in the eastern city.
Almost 2,000 people have been killed by Syrian government air attacks in the northern city of Aleppo so far this year, an activist group says.
A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan's top courts on Tuesday in a so-called "honor" killing for marrying the man she loved, police said.