The Nigerian army says it has secured the release of 360 people abducted by the Boko Haram armed group earlier this year in the country’s northeast.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it has launched an investigation after confirming it attacked a vehicle carrying Lebanese soldiers in southern Lebanon.

Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said on Tuesday it had elected deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed slain secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air attack on Beirut's southern suburb over a month ago, News.Azreports citing Reuters .

Several people are reported wounded in an armed clash between members of a terrorist group and Iranian border guards in the Saravan border region of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in southeastern Iran, General Ahmad Ali Goudarzi, commander of Iran's Border Guards, has said, News.Az reports.