News in Brief -- 3rd March -- 03-30 GMT

Syrian Kurdish fighters have taken control of a strategic hill in Aleppo from the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front group.

Iraqi officials have hailed new achievements by the army forces and volunteer forces in an operation against ISIL terrorists.

Turkish police attack pro-Kurdish protesters in the city of Diyarbakir.

Medical charity, Doctors Without Borders, has closed its only facility in the Razih district of Yemen’s Sa’ada province.

Egyptian lawmakers have dismissed a deputy after he held talks with the Israeli ambassador to Cairo during a dinner at his home.

The United Nations has warned that the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan is worsening.

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