KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants set off a roadside bomb as a Pakistani military truck was passing on Tuesday, wounding seven people in the third bomb attack in the country in two days.

GAZA (Reuters) – An Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian civilian in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical workers said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The Iraqi army launched an operation on Tuesday to take control of Baghdad’s Sadr City slum, the power base of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.