Turkey on Monday hosts a string of top diplomats from the Islamic world to bring their influence to bear on the future of Gaza, as fears grow for the increasingly fragile truce.

A U.S. strike on an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean killed three people on Saturday, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said, the latest such attack in international waters.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to send the military into Nigeria with "guns-a-blazing" if Africa's most populous country does not stem what he described as the killing of Christians by Islamists.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday that during talks with his Chinese counterpart, the two sides had agreed to reboot military-to-military links to "deconflict and deescalate".

Israel warned Sunday that its military would step up its attacks against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, a day after the Lebanese health ministry reported four people killed in an Israeli air strike.

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack has called Lebanon "a failed state" in remarks underscoring Washington's frustration with what he called Beirut's "paralyzed government."

Speaking at the Manama Dialogue summit in Bahrain during a panel on "U.S. Policy in the Levant," Barrack pointedly said Lebanon is the only state in the region "not jumping in line" with the new Middle East realignments.

Satellite imagery suggests mass killings are likely continuing in and around Sudan's El-Fasher, Yale researchers said, as Germany's top diplomat on Saturday described the situation there as "apocalyptic".

Israel's military said Saturday that three bodies it received from Gaza via the Red Cross the previous night were not hostages held in the Palestinian territory.

The Israeli military told AFP that a forensic analysis revealed the bodies were not those of any of the 11 deceased captives still to be handed over as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal.

Jordan and Germany said on Saturday that an international force expected to support a future Palestinian police in Gaza under U.S. President Donald Trump's post-war governance plan should have a U.N. mandate.

Israel has returned the bodies of 30 more Palestinians to Gaza as part of an ongoing exchange deal under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire plan, a hospital told AFP on Friday.